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☆ The growth fund that dodged the worst of the 2022 bear market by leaning on fundamentals
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

The firm's $1.7 billion Large Cap Growth Fund , with some of the biggest technology names among its top holdings, lost 24.3% in 2022. 'Rigor and process' Kantor and Regenbaum have spent years managing the fund by taking a magnifying glass to the inner plumbing of some of the biggest growth stocks. Indeed, Morningstar says the fund's portfolio has a lower price-to-book-value than other large cap growth funds or Morningstar's benchmark index for the group, and faster book value growth. There were "crazy growth companies that went to the moon," Kantor said, "and then unfortunately at some point had to return to Earth." Investors are at an important moment given the Federal Reserve's campaign to rein in inflation by hiking interest rates, and the interest-rate sensitive nature of growth stocks.

☆ Meta is promoting its VR headset with a 3D spaceman bursting out of London's most famous advertising billboard
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Meta unveiled a new 3D ad for its Meta Quest 2 VR headset on London's Piccadilly Circus. Meta's Reality Labs took over the Piccadilly Lights in the heart of London's West End to promote its Meta Quest 2 virtual reality headset. Since 2019, the Facebook owner has pumped $36 billion into Reality Labs, according to an Insider analysis of Meta's financial filings. Reality Labs posted an operating loss of $9.4 billion in the first nine months of this year alone. The Meta Quest 2 ad will run until the end of the year and it will be rolled out across the US as well.

☆ ‘She Said’ Review: Plodding Through the Weinstein Story
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Kyle Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Major movie studios hardly ever delve into newspaper work any more, and the so-so picture “She Said” is an excellent illustration of why. It falls into nearly every trap that awaits a journalism film, even featuring sequences in which characters type or stand around gazing into computer monitors, both of which exert considerable deflationary pull on drama. Since watching people ask questions leaves viewers at one remove from the story, the solution to the possibility of dramatic deficiency is either to make the journalists themselves abundantly colorful (“His Girl Friday,” “The Paper”) or to cast them as detectives who devise enterprising means to solve a complex puzzle (“All the President’s Men,” “Spotlight”). “She Said,” directed by the German actress and filmmaker Maria Schrader , errs by ignoring both paths. Portraying the New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor , who in 2017 broke the story about producer Harvey Weinstein ’s sexual misconduct, Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan are so aggressively ordinary that they leave a personality void at the center of this disappointing film.

☆ 'She Said' review: Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star as the New York Times reporters who helped break the Harvey Weinstein story
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“She Said” nevertheless joins a long tradition of movies about dogged reporters exposing injustice, and in this case helping spawn a sweeping movement. The film is adapted from the book by New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, which might explain why the work of Ronan Farrow is mentioned but conspicuously shortchanged. Setting that aside, the heart of “She Said,” which begins with Twohey (Carey Mulligan) reporting on Donald Trump, centers on her collaboration with Kantor (Zoe Kazan) to lay bare the predatory behavior of Harvey Weinstein. Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan play New York Times reporters in the fact-based movie "She Said." (The film’s producers include Brad Pitt, who has spoken of confronting Weinstein back when he was dating Gwyneth Paltrow.)

☆ 'She Said' debuts at New York Film Festival
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —“She Said,” based on the book on the New York Times investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct, made its premiere at the 2022 New York Film Festival on Oct. 13. In 2020, the former movie producer was convicted of rape in a New York trial. “She Said” recounts the 2017 New York Times investigation that exposed decades of sexual abuse by Weinstein. Zoe Kazan plays Times journalist Jodi Kantor and Carey Mulligan is investigative reporter Megan Twohey. Also in attendance at the premiere was Ashley Judd, who participated on the record for the Times’ exposé.

☆ 'She Said' movie highlights the women who took on Harvey Weinstein
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The movie is based on the 2019 book of the same name about the New York Times investigation into claims of sexual misconduct by Weinstein, then one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood. After the Times story broke, some 100 women came forward with accusations of sexual misconduct by Weinstein. The reporting fueled the #MeToo movement, with women around the world calling out sexual harassment. Weinstein, who has denied having non-consensual sex with anyone, was sentenced in New York in March 2020 to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault involving two women. Weinstein is currently on trial in California on additional charges of sexual misconduct.

☆ More layoffs hit CNN as CEO Chris Licht sets strategy and shuffles talent across the organization
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Lucia Moses | Emilia David | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

CNN is laying off a small number of people in its audio division. A company rep said audio remains an important area for the company and that it's refining its strategy. CNN is laying off people in its audio division, according to affected staffers. One product manager posted on LinkedIn that their position had been eliminated and that the company told staff it planned to produce fewer audio series in 2023. "Audio is an important growth area for the company," the CNN rep said.

☆ Enjoy your Airbnb — just don’t forget to do the laundry and take out the trash
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Airbnb hosts say there are two reasons for the higher fees and the chore demands: Covid-19 raised sanitation requirements, and — you guessed it — inflation. Airbnb allows hosts to set their own rates and encourages them to avoid cleaning fees if possible. BOTTOM LINEThe social media outrage about cleaning fees and chores is certainly a PR headache for Airbnb, but it’s far from a crisis. Plus, Jon speaks to Redfin’s Chief Economist Daryl Fairweather about what homebuyers need to know about mortgage rates. ), but mortgage rates may keep going up as long as the Fed keeps raising interest rates.

Rolul principal va fi interpretat de actriţa şi model Svetlana Jodchenkova, a anunţat într-un comunicat Netflix, care nu a dezvăluit numele celorlalţi membri ai distribuţiei care participă la serialul intitulat „Anna K”. O talentată echipă de scriitori şi producători a creat un serial plin de imaginaţie şi fascinant”, a declarat directorul secţiei Original Series al Netflix, Michael Azzolino. O femeie din înalta societate, Anna Karenina, soţia viitorului guvernator de Sankt Petersburg începe o relaţie cu Alexei Vronski, moştenitor al imperiului aluminiului”, se arată în comunicat. „Ideea acestui serial mi-a venit la propriu într-un vis şi de atunci m-a obsedat”, a mărturisit scenaristul. Romanul „Anna Karenina”, publicat iniţial în mai multe părţi între 1873 şi 1877, este considerat una dintre capodoperele literaturii universale.

Persons: Svetlana, Production, Michael Azzolino, Tolstoi, Anna Karenina, Alexei Vronski, Karenina, . Organizations: XXI Locations: Rusia, Sankt Petersburg, Moscova, rusă

☆ Primul serial original rusesc produs de Netflix. Acțiunea din noua versiune a „Annei Karenina” se va petrece în Rusia contemporană
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-27 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

Primul serial original rusesc produs de Netflix. Acțiunea din noua versiune a „Annei Karenina” se va petrece în Rusia contemporanăNetflix a anunţa miercuri ca va produce o versiune modernă a romanului lui Lev Tolstoi „Anna Karenina", care va fi totodată şi primul său serial original rusesc. O talentată echipă de scriitori şi producători a creat un serial plin de imaginaţie şi fascinant”, a declarat directorul secţiei Original Series al Netflix, Michael Azzolino. O femeie din înalta societate, Anna Karenina, soţia viitorului guvernator de Sankt Petersburg începe o relaţie cu Alexei Vronski, moştenitor al imperiului aluminiului”, se arată în comunicat. Romanul „Anna Karenina” de Lev Tolstoi, publicat iniţial în mai multe părţi între 1873 şi 1877, este considerat una dintre capodoperele literaturii universale.

Persons: Karenina, Lev Tolstoi, Anna Karenina, Svetlana, Production, Michael Azzolino, Tolstoi, Alexei Vronski, . Organizations: AGERPRES, XXI Locations: Rusia, Netflix, Sankt Petersburg, Moscova, rusă

This is “The Daily.” Last week, E. Jean Carroll came forward with the most serious allegation yet of sexual assault by the president. michael barbaroMegan, can you take us back to last Friday, when New York magazine published an article about E. Jean Carroll? e. jean carroll Because it’s Donald Trump, and I’ve got — it’s a thing. e. jean carroll I may have tried to hit him with my purse, I don’t know. e. jean carroll Went out through the building, got to Fifth Avenue, had my purse, because I picked up my phone.

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