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"X to remove likes/comments/reposts from replies"

Much like making "likes" invisible even to your friends, this reduces info available to each user and their ability to choose what content they consume

The platform wants you to read what it tells you to

Try the other place

NEWS: X to remove likes/comments/reposts from replies. https://t.co/WwdGq4GA2G
- X Daily News
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"This is the bad place!" https://t.co/zhnktXIPO7

Can't say this enough; Elon Musk's menace to democracy is intolerable. He's using the largest & most influential platform in the democratic world to stoke racial conflict and civil breakdown - in his own posts & what X promotes. Democracies can no longer ignore this.
- Edward Luce
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Finding Compounders
What is value investing all about anyway ? https://t.co/heXVIjyqGZ
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Blue Whale * bought Philip Morris as top-10 holding
(* fund backed by $HL Peter Hargreaves)

$PM recently hit multi-year high, still +17% LTM

Blue Whale also bought back into $META in Dec-23

Buying at 52-wk high can be a valid move for "quality compounders", if sub-optimal https://t.co/warK62xxUc
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Zoetis $ZTS 24Q2

Q2 Revenue +11% op. (+8% in $), incl:
- US Comp. Animal +13%, US Livestock +11%
- Int'l CA +12%, Int'l Livestock +8%
Adj. Net Income +18% op., +9% in $
(COS +3 ppt more than revenue in $; SG&A 3 ppt less)

H1 revenue +12% op. (+9% in $)
Adj. Net Income +7% in $ https://t.co/JiYTz45lJ3
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Invest In Assets 📈
Analyze a competitive market using Porter's Five Forces: https://t.co/YKBscS7hNq
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"Brazil's Pix payments are killing cash. Are credit cards next?" (Reuters)

The no. of credit card & debit card transactions have continued to grow sequentially despite PIX, though debit card usage may be decelerating (since debit offers fewer features than credit)

cc: $V $MA https://t.co/Q2qcvfFAZz

Must read article on PIX and Brazil https://t.co/glJQvrW0hF
- Tom Noyes
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nVent $NVT 24Q2 - Thermal Management
(for read-across for Spirax $SPX ETS)

Sales +4% organic, +3% in $
"Driven by Industrial, particularly MRO"
"Europe & APAC organic sales grew"
But EBIT -2% due to negative mix shift https://t.co/7ZClmv8VWO
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Two quotes of the day #58 and #59

"In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.”
- Benjamin Graham

“Price is what you pay, value is what you get.”
- Warren Buffett
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“Following a fall of almost 70% in its stock price since $WBD was formed in 2022, chief executive David Zaslav and chief financial officer Gunnar Wiedenfels have recently evaluated “all options” to arrest the decline, said two people familiar with the matter.”

“They are considering offers to sell Polish broadcaster TVN or a stake in Warner’s video games business, which holds valuable intellectual property to Harry Potter games.”

“WBD’s management hopes investors will remain patient as they work to turn around the company, they said, believing its true market capitalisation should be about $60bn, or $25 a share.”

via @FT
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