Netflix grew 13%. Viewing grew 2%
The gap between those two numbers is the entire business model. Plus: what 3.5% inflation quietly charges a $10,000 balance, and why "the European housing market" describes almost nobody.
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Google paid $2.7bn. Disney bid $20m
What was left of a chatbot unicorn after Google took the team, the airwaves that gave Verizon its worst day in 24 years, and a stock that listed at $43 and sold at $6.
France pays more than Greece to borrow
Greece runs a surplus, France can't pass a budget, and lenders have noticed. Also inside: the debt number that tells you more than net worth, and a contract clause worth 4% of your pay.
Who is actually paying for the AI boom?
The Brontë sisters owned railway shares. So did Charles Darwin and the novelist William Thackeray, according to the historians William Quinn and John Turner. By one estimate, about a quarter of all members of Parliament did too. In the mid-1840s, half of respectable Britain was betting on the new
The wealth record Europe missed
A $50 billion listing with $140 million in sales, a new investment account in Spain, and why long bonds had a bad September.