The journalists Ruaridh Nicoll and Daniel Montero report from Havana as Cuba suffers from a devastating oil blockade imposed by the US When asked about Cuba by journalists last week, Donald Trump replied: ‘It may be a friendly takeover. It may not be a friendly takeover. It wouldn’t matter, because they’re really down to the fumes.’ It was the only the latest in a series of increasingly belligeren...
The journalists Ruaridh Nicoll and Daniel Montero report from Havana as Cuba suffers from a devastating oil blockade imposed by the US When asked about Cuba by journalists last week, Donald Trump replied: ‘It may be a friendly takeover. It may not be a friendly takeover. It wouldn’t matter, because they’re really down to the fumes.’ It was the only the latest in a series of increasingly belligerent statements from the White House about the island 90 miles off the Florida coast. Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state and a Cuban-American himself, openly threatens Cuba’s communist leadership. Trump says ‘I can do anything I want with it’. Continue reading...
At least 10 weight-loss injections and oral pills are lining up for regulatory approval in China, in a market projected to reach about US$14 billion by 2030. Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster semaglutide, which generated about US$35 billion in global revenue last year, lost patent protection in China on March 20, clearing the way for rivals. The rush comes as China’s drug regulator accelerates approvals ...
At least 10 weight-loss injections and oral pills are lining up for regulatory approval in China, in a market projected to reach about US$14 billion by 2030. Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster semaglutide, which generated about US$35 billion in global revenue last year, lost patent protection in China on March 20, clearing the way for rivals. The rush comes as China’s drug regulator accelerates approvals of innovative therapies, helped by a surge in out-licensing deals with global pharmaceutical...
It has been a volatile stretch for investors in Domino's Pizza (NASDAQ: DPZ) . After climbing to a 52-week high of nearly $500, shares of the world's largest pizza company have experienced a sharp drawdown. Such a steep drop might prompt investors to wonder whether the underlying business is losing its edge in a highly competitive restaurant landscape. But a closer look at the company's recently r...
It has been a volatile stretch for investors in Domino's Pizza (NASDAQ: DPZ) . After climbing to a 52-week high of nearly $500, shares of the world's largest pizza company have experienced a sharp drawdown. Such a steep drop might prompt investors to wonder whether the underlying business is losing its edge in a highly competitive restaurant landscape. But a closer look at the company's recently reported fourth-quarter results suggests it isn't. Instead of a struggling operation, the numbers reveal a resilient business generating massive amounts of cash and aggressively returning it to shareholders. For investors looking to add a durable dividend payer to their portfolio, this sell-off has created an opportunity that is arguably too good to pass up. Continue reading
New Lord Of The Rings Movie To Be Written By...Stephen Colbert? There is perhaps nothing more revealing about the desperate state of Hollywood than its obsession with digging up old franchises in a futile race to capitalize on audeince nostalgia. In fact, it has been widely understood in the film industry for the past decade that almost no project will be greenlit unless it is a reboot, remake or ...
New Lord Of The Rings Movie To Be Written By...Stephen Colbert? There is perhaps nothing more revealing about the desperate state of Hollywood than its obsession with digging up old franchises in a futile race to capitalize on audeince nostalgia. In fact, it has been widely understood in the film industry for the past decade that almost no project will be greenlit unless it is a reboot, remake or "re-imagining" of a previously popular story property. The problem, which everyone except Hollywood executives understands, is that you cannot recapture the magic of older hit movies, especially when your stable of writing talent is populated by an army of left-wing, pill popping ideological lunatics with no moral standards to speak of. These kinds of people are simply incapable of relating to the common moviegoer. This dynamic has led Hollywood down a path of financial destruction, with dozens of big budget films bombing at the box office in the past year alone. Some projects have lost hundreds of millions of dollars and the smell of napalm is heavy in the air. One disastrous reboot attempt that set Hollywood on the path of total defeat is Amazon's ludicrous Lord Of The Rings project, "The Rings Of Power". A non-canonical adaptation of limited parts of The Silmarillion, the show turns Galadriel, the personification of the pure feminine, into a spitting, angry feminist girl-boss that slaughters orcs by the barrel. The show's writing was saturated with sad approximations of Tolkien-style dialogue written by people with no life experience or wisdom. Tolkien was a historical linguistics professor who fought in some of the bloodiest battles of WWI. His insight into mythology and the human condition was deep and compelling. The idea that anyone in current-day Hollywood could hold a candle to him is absurd. The series was meant to exploit the pre-existing fanbase of the Peter Jackson trilogy. Amazon execs bragged that the franchise was a sure thing, suggesting that the fans were ...
A public evidential hearing by an independent committee into a fire that killed 168 people at a Hong Kong estate has entered its fourth day, with more residents set to testify. One resident who testified on Thursday said piles of rubbish were seen outside the building that first caught fire at Wang Fuk Court estate, while another who called police’s emergency hotline about the blaze said she had t...
A public evidential hearing by an independent committee into a fire that killed 168 people at a Hong Kong estate has entered its fourth day, with more residents set to testify. One resident who testified on Thursday said piles of rubbish were seen outside the building that first caught fire at Wang Fuk Court estate, while another who called police’s emergency hotline about the blaze said she had to wait “for a long time” before she could get through. In the previous session, a lawyer for the...