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Rupak Ghose is an adviser to fintech companies and a former financials research analyst.When I joined Credit Suisse First Boston in the summer of 1999 I knew where the action was — equity research. Yes, really. There was legendary telecoms analyst Jack Grubman at Salomon and Internet analysts Mary Meeker at Morgan Stanley and Henry Blodget at Merrill Lynch, each feted by the media and taking home tens of millions of dollars a year. They were the market gods, not the traders or the buyside. I was therefore thrilled to become a media equity research analyst at CSFB.As the dotcom…

Source / yPredictInvestors are rushing to secure ground-breaking AI-powered trading and market intelligence platform yPredict’s $YPRED crypto token, which continues to fly off the shelves in one of this year’s hottest crypto start-up fundraising presale rounds.yPredict’s viral presale, which has already scooped up a whopping more than $935,000 in early investor funds, just entered its fifth stage.And there’s no time to lose to invest in the project, whose institutional-grade AI-powered crypto price prediction system is being touted as a game-changer for the trading industry.That’s because when the yPredict’s fundraising hits the $1.632 million mark, the $YPRED token presale will progress…

It’s no surprise that the shortage of primary care doctors — who are critically important to the health of Americans — is getting worse.They practice in one of medicine’s lowest paid, least glamorous fields. Most are overworked, seeing as many as 30 people a day; figuring out when a sore throat is a strep infection, or managing a patient’s chronic diabetes.So why are multibillion-dollar corporations, particularly giant health insurers, gobbling up primary care practices? CVS Health, with its sprawling pharmacy business and ownership of the major insurer Aetna, paid roughly $11 billion to buy Oak Street Health, a fast-growing chain…

Dr. Philip Nathan Jefferson, of North Carolina, nominated to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, speaks during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 3, 2022.Ken Cedeno | ReutersFederal Reserve Governor Philip Jefferson will be nominated by President Joe Biden to be vice chairman of the central bank’s board, the White House announced Friday.Though one of the newest members of the Board of Governors, Jefferson would take over a key policymaking position at a time when the Fed is trying to tamp…

When Ukraine won last year’s Eurovision Song Contest, it gained the right to hold this year’s event. And despite Russia’s invasion, it insisted it would do it.Ukraine’s public broadcaster issued plans to host the spectacle in the west of the country, out of reach of Russian missiles, while politicians, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, said the nation would make it work.Even some foreign leaders backed its cause. Last summer, Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister at the time, told reporters that Ukraine won Eurovision “fair and square,” so it should host, regardless of the war.“It’s a year away,” Johnson said. “It’s going…

Beyoncé and Taylor Swift have blown past music industry records before, picking up dozens of Grammy awards and smashing streaming numbers. So, it shouldn’t be any surprise that both pop stars are also on track to break another record — the highest-grossing concerts of all-time.  Beyoncé could rake in more than $2 billion from her “Renaissance” world tour, which kicked off this week and includes 57 shows, projections show. Taylor Swift, who is also touring this year, could similarly surpass the billion-dollar mark. The country-pop singer’s 20-city nationwide “Eras” tour, with 52 shows, is expected to gross a whopping $1.6…

PHILADELPHIA — At the end of one of the stranger games of his career, Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics pounded the ball against the court as the final seconds elapsed. The sound of those hard dribbles — each a percussive thud — seemed to fill Wells Fargo Center as thousands of 76ers fans tried to make sense of what had just happened in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.How was any of it possible? How had the 76ers blown an opportunity to secure their first trip to the conference finals since 2001? How had the Celtics seized on…

Elon Musk has tapped Linda Yaccarino, until this week the head of advertising at NBCUniversal, to replace him as CEO of Twitter, he announced in a tweet Friday. “@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology,” the tweet read, in part. The announcement comes after the billionaire on Thursday tweeted that he had found someone new to lead the social media platform, adding that “she will be starting in ~6 weeks!” Musk, who completed a deal to buy Twitter last fall for $44 billion, will transition to executive chairman and chief technology officer of Twitter. …

The NewsInternational passengers traveling to the United States no longer have to show proof of vaccination against Covid as of midnight Thursday, when the coronavirus health emergency officially ended.The Biden administration dropped its requirement for coronavirus testing last June but kept in place its vaccination policy for foreign travelers. In February, the House of Representatives voted to end the last remaining pandemic restrictions on May 11.“As we continue to monitor the evolving state of Covid-19 and the emergence of virus variants, we have the tools to detect and respond to the potential emergence of a variant of high consequence,” President…

That said, there has been “considerable pressure” for the senators to accept the popular will and go with the elected government’s choice of prime minister, noted Dr Hewison. Dr James Ockey, associate professor at the University of Canterbury, told CNA’s Asia First: “Thai elections are quite fascinating in the sense that victory doesn’t necessarily depend on who gets the most votes and who gets the most seats.” He noted that since the turn of the millennium, the most number of seats in every election has gone to Pheu Thai or its predecessor parties. “But on most occasions, it’s not been…