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Quartr and Lightyear partners to bring free and easy-to-access company information for investors across Europe

Published: Jan. 18, 2023 at 2:12 AM CST|Updated: 2 hours ago

Finance software startup Quartr signs an API deal with Lightyear, an online broker based in Londonserving customers in 20 countries across europe. Lightyear will, through this integration, get access to Quartr’s database of earnings calls, accompanying documents, reports, and slide decks. This partnership also means that public companies get a completely new distribution channel for their information.

STOCKHOLM and NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Quartr (www.quartr.com) continues to move forward on its mission to bring the financial community closer together

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Is the Biggest Lie in Finance Costing You $900,000?
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Is the Biggest Lie in Finance Costing You $900,000?

Few Ph.D papers have been more influential than economist Eugene Fama’s 1965 thesis.

Fama’s hypothesis helped spark a school of thought in finance that held that all efforts to beat the stock market over the long term were futile.

Called the efficient market hypothesis, it maintains that all of the relevant information concerning a company’s prospects would already be known and “priced into” the stock.

Individual investors might pick a stock they felt could yield outsized returns, and a few might get lucky and beat the markets for a short while.

But the efficient market hypothesis held that eventually, investors’

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Martin Lewis suggests a cheaper alternative for drying laundry
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Martin Lewis suggests a cheaper alternative for drying laundry

Martin Lewis, the popular TV money-saving expert, has outdone himself in 2022, helping millions of Britons to navigate a desperately bleed cost of living crisis by dishing out vital personal finance tips at a time when many are in need of all the practical help they can get.

Bringing compassion and expertise to his appearances on his ITV programme The Martin Lewis Money Show Livevia his BBC podcast, his website and newsletter and through his regular media interviews, Lewis is providing a welcome public service to those struggling to make ends meet.

No concern is too small to warrant

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Should You Eat With Your Hands and Eschew Cutlery?
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Should You Eat With Your Hands and Eschew Cutlery?

November 22, 2022 · 7:30 AM

“Me Grok”

DailyMail has an interesting article that promotes eating with your hands instead of forks, knives and spoons. After all, caveman Grok didn’t have eating utensils.

Those who are a stickler for etiquette should look away now.

That’s because we’ve all been eating the wrong way and should be eating with our hands, according to a psychologist.

Professor Charles Spence, from the University of Oxford, said giving up cutlery is the secret to enjoying food.

He says eating with our hands can ‘heighten the dining experience’ – even for meals like pasta and

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CT public campaign financing faces a reckoning in self-funders era

The dominance of wealthy self-funders in the Connecticut gubernatorial races is prompting an examination of how to restore the relevance of the state’s groundbreaking public financing system to top-of-the ticket elections.

Campaign finance reports filed this week showed Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont spent $25.7 million to win reelection to a second term, while his Republican opponent, Bob Stefanowski, spent $14.5 million.

Had they opted for public financing under the voluntary Citizens Election Program, they would have been limited to about $8 million — roughly the amount Lamont spent just on television advertising in the last five weeks of the campaign.

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Collapsed crypto giant recovers over $5bn of assets
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Collapsed crypto giant recovers over $5bn of assets

Former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried.

The former chief executive of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried

Collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX has located more than $5bn (£4.1bn) of assets, an attorney for the firm says.

However, a US bankruptcy court was told on Wednesday that the extent of losses to customers is still unknown.

Prosecutors have accused FTX’s former chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried of orchestrating an “epic” fraud that may have cost investors, customers and lenders billions of dollars.

Mr. Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty to charges that he cheated investors.

“We have located over 5 billion dollars of cash, liquid cryptocurrency and liquid investment securities,” Andy Dietderich, an

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County clerk shows mixed results for Southland TIF districts

Revenue for tax incremental financing districts was a mixed bag last year in the south and southwest suburbs, with some record gains in tax revenue and other losses, according to a report by Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough.

The report, released last week, is based on 2021 property tax levies, with calculations of taxes anticipated to be collected in 2022.

Two districts in Blue Island expected to collect TIF revenue of $3.1 million in 2022, up from $2.9 million in 2021, according to the clerk’s report.

Three TIF districts in Calumet City had $3.9 million in taxes collected in 2021,

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Lily Fang – The Globalist
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Lily Fang – The Globalist

Associate Professor of Finance, INSEAD

Lily Fang is an associate professor of finance at INSEAD, where she has taught since 2003. She has a broad research interest in topics relating to capital markets and financial intermediation.

Her work on the relation between media coverage and the cross-section of stock returns received the prestigious Smith Breeden award for the best papers published in the Journal of Finance in 2009.

Her papers on reputation effects in the underwriting markets and sell-side research have been published in top-tier journals such as the Journal of Finance and Review of Financial Studies. In her current

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