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The Great Chocolate Crisis of 2024

You probably haven’t even noticed the Great Chocolate Crisis of 2024, but it is real and some of us are very concerned! The wholesale price of cocoa, which comes from the cocoa bean, is the main ingredient in chocolate and has skyrocketed in price!When the Spanish Conquistadors came across cocoa 500 years ago it was use by the Aztecs of Mexico in a drink combined with hot peppers—Talk about “hot coco!” It was called "the food of the gods." On the Thornton Necessity...

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Giulia Nobili: «Braucht der Finanzmarkt noch aktivistische Investoren?»

Mit der Ankündigung der Firma Veraison, ihre Aktivitäten einzustellen, verschwindet am Schweizer Markt eine bedeutende aktivistische Investorin. In diesem Bereich ist Sterling bereits seit mehr als 20 Jahren tätig. Angesichts dieser Entscheidung stellt sich die Frage, ob eine aktivistische Strategie noch gerechtfertigt ist, wie Giulia Nobili in ihrem Gastbeitrag auf finews.ch schreibt.

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How EU Law Has Made the Internet Less Free for Everyone Else

If you have been using the internet for longer than a couple of years, you might have noticed that it used to be much “freer.” What freer means in this context is that there was less censorship and less stringent rules regarding copyright violations on social media websites such as YouTube and Facebook (and consequently a wider array of content), search engines used to often show results from smaller websites, there were less “fact-checkers,” and there were (for...

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Yen Dumps before It Jumps

Overview:  The FOMC meeting, the US employment report, and eurozone CPI were to be the highlights of the week, but the Japanese yen stole the march to start the week. The dollar soared to almost JPY160.20 before falling sharply to JPY154.55 and then rebounding to almost JPY156.00. Intervention has not been confirmed and BOJ data will not cover it until next month. On balance, it appears that most think it was algo-trading in thin markets given the Japanese holiday....

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