Diego Segura

The problem, Ms. Velez has learned, is that recognition — the buzz around awards, reviews and celebrity endorsements — doesn’t always yield tangible returns. If anything, she said, it contributes to the idea that things are going well when they are not.

the merger of these two companies speaks to the predicament of American fashion, which is not focused on managing brands so much as it is about managing businesses

What really works in American fashion is consistency. I’m usually pretty bored by Ulla Johnson ’s shows, but on Sunday morning I couldn’t help feeling dazzled by her three-dimensional florals and dizzying zig-zag knits. (Made me think she’d be a great designer for Missoni, but that brand needs help, and she’s too smart to take on some impossible... See more

Here’s something I’m very thankful I was told while I was still in my 20s: that the point of all this “hard work” is to recognize the person it makes you, not what it “gets” you

During the 90 years between 1871 and 1960, the S&P 500 annual dividend yield never fell below 3%. In fact, annual dividends reached above 5% during 45 separate years over the period.

The sharp change in S&P 500 dividend yield traces back to the early to mid-1990s. For example, the average dividend yield between 1970 and 1990 was 4.03%. It declined... See more

Quality : Among subscribers, the perceived “quality” for Max is at 55 percent, the same as in January—even as all the other streamers dropped, and well above the 43 percent of Discovery+. So Max is benefitting from the HBO association, despite dropping the HBO brand from the name.

I have a gut sense that a Paramount Global overseen by Sumner Redstone , instead of his daughter, Shari , would have reached a different conclusion. After all, what is now known as Paramount Global was built on Sumner’s litigation risk-reward calculus.

Mayo said he’s been talking to the Financial Accounting Standards Board and “they aren’t going to change 40 years of rules right now. So the reality is they don’t have to sell.”

That would make the founders’ combined 20% stake worth in excess of $400 million—not bad for two middle-aged guys who until 2015 knew almost nothing about the insurance business.