When Lulu Hunt Peters brought Americans a new method for weighing their dinner options, she launched a century of diet fads that left us hungry for a better way to keep our bodies strong and healthy
Psychedelic hedgehogs, purple pineapples, living strawberries—welcome to the magical world of nudibranchs
As the Southwest dries, can a city notorious for excess find a way to survive with less and less water?
Modern Athens savors its connections to antiquity—while reappraising its past
BARRON’S MAGAZINE - MARCH 4, 2024 ISSUE:
General Electric will soon be no more, but shares of the three new companies look attractive.
UPS stock looks attractive after a selloff as the package-delivery leader works to cut costs and boost profits. Investors reap a 4.4% dividend yield while waiting for the rebound.
In the wake of New York Community Bancorp’s selloff, Barron’s is examining banks with the highest concentration of commercial real estate loans.Long read
It was a good year for both stocks and bonds. These five fund firms did especially well, taking advantage of opportunities beyond the Magnificent Seven.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – FEBRUARY 26, 2024 ISSUE:
Videogame makers have disavowed connections to gambling, while regulators have looked the other way. Meanwhile, young gamers are placing their first bets.
The stock is bargain-priced, but that should change as the company focuses on faster service and stepped-up marketing.4 min read
Foreign companies are attracted by the bigger market, stronger stock prices and more rapidly growing economy in the U.S.4 min read
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – FEBRUARY 19, 2024 ISSUE:
The candidates have divergent views on critical matters tied to economic growth. Why investors should pay attention.
Daleep Singh, a PGIM economist heading back to the White House, says the world’s challenges are going to require more fiscal spending.
A series of consequential elections around the world, including one in the U.S., could affect investors for years to come.Long read
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Feminist. Preacher. Abolitionist. Civil rights pioneer. Now the full story of the American icon’s life and faith is finally coming to light
On May 29, 1851, a woman asked to address the attendees of the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron. She cut a striking figure, close to six feet tall even without her crisp bonnet. She was more than likely the only Black person in the room.
A procession of participants had already sounded off about the plight and potential of the “fairer sex” during the two-day gathering. “We are told that woman has never excelled in philosophy or any of the branches of mathematics,” said abolitionist Emily Rakestraw Robinson before noting that women were largely barred from higher education. Lura Maria Giddings lamented: “The degraded, vicious man, who scarcely knows his right hand from his left, is permitted to vote, while females of the most elevated intelligence are entirely excluded.” A dispatch about women’s labor from Paulina W. Davis, who would later create the women’s rights periodical The Una, painted a verbal picture of “mother and sister toiling like Southern slaves, early and late, for a son who sleeps on the downiest couch, wears the finest linen and spends his hundreds of dollars in a wild college life.”
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – FEBRUARY 12, 2024 ISSUE:
Chains like Walgreens and CVS have pivoted from endless expansion to closing stores to boost profits.
Many high-yielding sectors of the market are undervalued right now, and collecting dividends has several advantages over clipping coupons on bonds.
A Barron’s exclusive shows how corporate decisions at CVS left a pharmacy staff in Virginia Beach reeling, causing costly mistakes.
Home-equity lines of credit are popular among homeowners, but higher rates and fees might be off-putting. What to look for.
Shares of the snack maker should benefit from continued growth in emerging markets and elsewhere.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – FEBRUARY 5, 2024 ISSUE:
Despite years of technology disruption, home commissions remain stuck near 6%. Now courts, consumers, and some brokers are fighting back.
The specialty food distributor said it would dial back on acquisitions to focus on integrating new purchases and improving profitability.4 min read
Sonny Kalsi is most optimistic about industrial property and data centers.3 min read
Artificial intelligence (ai) is one of them. Several books will look at how it might reshape the world: “ai Needs You”, a “humanist manifesto for the age of ai” by Verity Harding, formerly of Google DeepMind; “The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots” by Daniela Rus, director of the ai laboratory at mit; and “Literary Theory for Robots”, an examination of how machine intelligence will influence the way we read, write and think, by Dennis Yi Tenen, a professor of English at Columbia University.
Geopolitics will also dominate publishers’ frontlists. Dale Copeland, a professor of international relations, will chronicle how commerce has shaped America’s foreign policy; Jim Sciutto of cnn will explore “The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China and the Next World War”. Several authors will focus on the war in Europe. Eugene Finkel, who was born in Ukraine, will offer a “deeper history of Russian violence against civilians” in the country; in “Putin and the Return of History” Martin Sixsmith will look back over a thousand years to put the Russian president’s aggression in context. Peter Pomerantsev’s “How to Win an Information War” will apply the perspective of a propagandist during the second world war to the conflict.
For those hoping for a few hours of diversion, there will be plenty of novels to look forward to. Bestselling authors including Percival Everett, Yann Martel, David Nicholls, Kiley Reid, Colm Toibin and Amor Towles will return with new stories in 2024. James Patterson will be completing an unfinished manuscript left behind by Michael Crichton, the author of “Jurassic Park”.
An unseen work by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who died in 2014, will also be released. In “En Agosto Nos Vemos” (“Until August”), a novella of fewer than 150 pages, the late Nobel laureate told the tale of a middle-aged woman’s affair. His children opposed its publication but now say it has the author’s trademark “capacity for invention, his poetic language [and] his captivating storytelling”. True or not, García Marquez will probably enjoy a resurgence, as an adaptation of his most celebrated work, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, is also in production at Netflix. If you want a fantastical tale, who better to turn to than the Colombian master of magical realism?
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – JANUARY 29, 2024 ISSUE:
The company is in the early stages of infusing OpenAI’s technology into all of its offerings. How much will it make from AI, and how long will it take to do so?
Our final group of pros say media, banks, REITs, and more look like winners this year.Long read
The combination with Southwestern will allow Chesapeake to compete with the majors—and its stock looks cheap.Long read
Enrollees have a brief window to change insurance providers or go back to traditional Medicare. Here’s what to know.3 min read
Our final group of pros say media, banks, REITs, and more look like winners this year.
The combination with Southwestern will allow Chesapeake to compete with the majors—and its stock looks cheap.
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