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Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine-October 14, 2024

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE (October 12, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Hidden Drug Deals’ –

PBMs’ Backroom Negotiations Revealed in Confidential Files

PBMs are under the microscope for allegedly inflating drug prices. New Barron’s reporting raises broader questions about the industry—and its role in the opioid crisis.

Insurer Stocks Ride Out Hurricanes With Manageable Losses. How to Play Them Now.

Share prices of insurers bounced back when Hurricane Milton caused less damage than forecast. Here’s how to play the sector now.

Berkshire Hathaway and Cathie Wood Own Nu Holdings Stock. Why You Should, Too.

Nubank, Latin America’s largest fintech bank, has the ability to grow globally. A recent pullback in its parent company’s shares offers an attractive entry point.

Tech Investing in Private Markets Takes Guts. Know the Risks.

There are several ways for retail investors to trade shares of hot tech start-ups that don’t trade publicly. But know the potential pitfalls before jumping in.

Oil’s ‘War Premium’ Is Back. Can Prices Top $100?

As violence escalates in the Middle East, traders are scooping up oil-sensitive stocks and options. It’s a risky strategy.

Own ‘Junk’ in Your Retirement Portfolio? It’s Not as Crazy as It Sounds.

Default rates are low and yields top 7%. How to invest in the upper tiers of the high-yield bond world.

Emerging Markets Are Finally Taking Off. Stocks and Funds to Buy.

The recent rally in Chinese stocks gives long-suffering investors in emerging markets reasons to be optimistic.

The New York Times Magazine – Oct. 13, 2024

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (October 11, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Al Pacino Is Still Going Big’…

The Interview – Al Pacino Is Still Going Big

Al Pacino has been one of the world’s greatest, most influential actors for more than 50 years. He’s audacious. He’s outrageous. He’s Al Pacino, and I’m pretty sure you know what that entails.

Why France’s Most Controversial Novelist Is Also Its Most Celebrated

Reviled as much as he is lauded, Michel Houellebecq holds up a mirror to a world we would rather not see.

Should Famous People Be Telling Us This Much About Their Illnesses?

For some celebrities, revealing all is part of the product. For others, it looks like a deeply unpleasant chore.

By Mireille Silcoff

Research Preview: Science Magazine – Oct. 11, 2024

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Science Magazine – October 10, 2024: The new issue features ‘Graphene at 20’ – New forms, and a brighter future, for the storied material…

El Niño fingered as likely culprit in record 2023 temperatures

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Research suggests swings in Pacific Ocean can account for planet’s sudden and perplexing temperature jump

The Economist Magazine – October 12, 2024 Preview

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The Economist Magazine (October 10, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Trumpification of American Policy’….

The Trumpification of American policy

No matter who wins in November, Donald Trump has redefined both parties’ agendas

The front line of the tech war is in Asia

The two superpowers are vying for influence. China will not necessarily win

Who will control the next Congress?

The new president is much less likely than usual to see allies take charge on Capitol Hill

Britain should not hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius

Once again, the Chagossians have been denied a say

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Oct. 10, 2024

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Nature Magazine – October 9, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Cold Comfort’ – Permafrost helps protect rivers from errosian and migration..

Hundreds of methane super-sources pinpointed in satellite data

Algorithm homes in on wetlands and industrial sites linked to high emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas.

Baby sea turtles ‘swim’ up from buried nests to the open air

Turtle hatchlings, which can begin life up to a metre deep in sand, point their heads towards the surface and make their way out onto the beach.

How a potent immune therapy loses its punch against a blood cancer

Therapeutic T cells used to treat acute myeloid leukaemia secrete proteins that impair the cells’ own ability to attack cancer.

A ‘Swiss army knife’ microscope that doesn’t break the bank

The parts of a 3D-printed device can be changed out, allowing for versatility as well as ultrahigh resolution.

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Oct. 11, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (October 9, 2024): The latest issue features ‘This English House’ – W.H. Auden’s changing view of home by Seamus Perry…

Country Life Magazine – October 9, 2024 Preview

Country Life Magazine (October 8, 2024): The latest issue features

Daffy goes digital

Annie Tempest’s inimitable characters totter gently into the modern age with a new website

Mud, mud, glorious mud

Dogs, birds, pigs and humans alike follow hippopotami down the hollow. Deborah Nicholls-Lee dons her wellies and joins them

A sense of time and place

Ben Pentreath unravels what makes an interior English, that indefinable, yet instantly recog-nisable and beguiling aesthetic

Made in the Marches

The border of England and Wales is proving inspiring for artisanal craftsmen, finds Arabella Youens

Mixing old and new

Country Life’s Interiors Editor Giles Kime opens the doors to his revived 17th-century cottage

New looks for a new season

From bamboo bookshelves to lamps and pots, Amelia Thorpe chooses accessories to covet

Turi King’s favourite painting

The scientist and historian picks a powerful royal portrait   

Growing pains

Minette Batters takes her seat in the House of Lords

The right place to build

The historic streetscapes of our towns and cities reveal lessons we still need to learn about how to build, believes Ptolemy Dean

The legacy

Kate Green salutes Dorothy Brooke and the global equine charity that bears her name

Antlered majesty

Manmade, yet wild, deer parks prove we can create Arcadia, asserts John Lewis-Stempel

Timber of the gods

Jack Watkins admires the huge, ancient and once-exotic cedars that punctuate our landscapes

The good stuff

Hetty Lintell tallies her trinkets

Interiors

An imaginative kitchen extension and tea-tinged fabrics

Building on great bone structure

The good bones that anchor the gardens of Foscote Manor, Buckinghamshire, please the eye of George Plumptre

Foraging

John Wright raises a dram of home-made vodka to the crab apple      

Operation mincemeat

Always comforting, cottage pie satisfies Tom Parker Bowles

Salt of the earth

Pick up a handful or several of salted peanuts when you’re next in the pub, urges Rob Crossan

I have news for ewe

The humble sheep changed the course of British art history, reveals Bendor Grosvenor

Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – October 7, 2024

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE (September 21, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Tesla’s Turning Point’ – The electric vehicle maker faces a make or break moment as it unveils robotaxi technology…

Tesla Robotaxi Day Is a Make or Break Moment for Elon Musk

The CEO will need to convince investors that the company is still more than an auto maker.

Unhappy With Your Medicare Plan? You Can Make a Change.

Open enrollment starts soon and big changes are in store for traditional Medicare and Advantage plans. What to know.

Gold Is Beating Stocks. 5 Things to Know Before You Buy.

The forces that are fueling gold’s rise—and whether it makes sense to latch on to the rally.

GLP-1 Drugs Are Everywhere Now. How the Copycats Took Over.

Wegovy and Zepbound are still hard to get. Knockoff versions from Noom, Ro, and others are filling in the gaps.

The Economist Magazine – October 6, 2024 Preview

The year that shattered the Middle East

The Economist Magazine (October 3, 2024): The latest issue features

The year that shattered the Middle East

Kill or be killed is the region’s new logic. Deterrence and diplomacy would be better

House prices: just getting going

Why property prices could keep rising for years

Will China’s stimulus work?

It will take more than a spectacular stockmarket rally to revive the economy

Britain’s Nigerian moment

A story of modern migration has had extraordinary results

Mapping a fruit fly’s brain

The first “connectome” of the brain of a complex adult animal has just been completed

Politics: The Guardian Weekly – October 4, 2024

The Guardian Weekly (October 2, 2024) – The new issue features ‘ 7 OCTOBER 2023’ – The day that changed the world. The Anniversary foreshadows a region on the brink. Plus: the shapeshifting Giorgia Meloni.

Events in the Middle East were moving so rapidly this week that the stunning assassination of the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut last Friday, killed by an Israeli heavy bombing raid, already feels quite distant. By Tuesday morning Israeli forces had launched what was called a “limited, localised and targeted” ground operation against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Hours later, Iran responded with a barrage of ballistic missiles aimed at targets across Israel.

To put things in some kind of perspective, the coming week also marks the first anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel, setting in motion the brutal chain of events leading to the deaths of more than 41,000 Gazans by Israeli bombing, last week’s dramatic events in Lebanon and Iran’s military response which many now fear leaves the region close to full-blown war.

Five essential reads in this week’s edition

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Spotlight | The ‘marriage competition’ that divided South Sudan
Underage marriage is illegal in South Sudan yet so commonplace it rarely attracts attention. But the case of Athiak Dau Riak, who her mother says is only 14, has gone viral, polarising her family and the country. From Juba, Florence Miettaux reports

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Science | Telescopes that could save us from death by asteroids
The existential threat from a large meteor is real, but two next-generation telescopes are about to make us safer, writes Robin George Andrews

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Feature | The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?
She’s been called a neo-fascist and a danger to her country. But the Italian prime minister has won over many heads of Europe. Should we be worried? By Alexander Stille

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Opinion | Trump v Harris and a battle between the sexes
There are clear reasons why women are running from Trump, but men are flocking to him – and it’s vital to understand why, argues Jonathan Freedland

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Culture | Will Ferrell’s road trip of trans discovery
Saturday Night Live writer Harper Steele came out as a trans woman in 2022 at the age of 61. Her friend of 30 years Will Ferrell had questions. So what else to do but jump in a van, cross the US, and make a documentary about it? Guy Lodge reports