For Mariupol Civilians, Days Passed Like A Blur': Stocks Dive in Dizzying About-Face
For Mariupol Civilians, Days Passed Like A Blur': Stocks Dive in Dizzying About-Face
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What’s
Russian Missile Strikes in Ukraine Intensify
Stocks Dive
News
In Dizzying
About-Face
Business & Finance
Boeing plans to move its The reversal wiped out the challenging environment for
global headquarters to Ar- euphoria that reigned on Wall stocks were starting to settle
lington, Va., from Chicago, a Street Wednesday in the wake in, including higher rates, diffi-
shift that would bring the of Federal Reserve Chairman cult earnings comparisons and
company’s leadership closer Jerome Powell’s comment that a stronger U.S. dollar that
to top federal officials. B1 the Fed wasn’t “actively con- weighs on overseas earnings at
sidering” raising interest rates multinational companies.
Top U.S. regulators pro-
.
by 0.75 percentage point at a Thursday’s rout is the latest
posed overhauling how banks
future meeting. With inflation Please turn to page A2
ly
lend hundreds of billions of
at its highest level since the
dollars annually in lower-
SHATTERED: A Ukrainian serviceman on Thursday walks next to an apartment building de- early 1980s, markets were an-
income communities. A2
stroyed by shelling in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine. Russia intensified strikes on infra- ticipating such an increase and Market Fallout
The BOE raised its key
interest rate but signaled that
it is likely to move cautiously
on
structure, in particular in Ukraine’s west, where arms are flowing into the country. A8 the prospect of a slower rise in
rates set off a furious buying
spree in the late afternoon.
Mortgage rates reach 13-
year high............................ A2
Investors look to stocks
Peloton Interactive is
exploring a sale of a sizable ‘Days Passed Like a Blur’ Index performance S&P 500
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of the war, unleashing artillery faith and went.” rail tracks spanning a territory
Shopify agreed to buy ful- and rocket fire on the strate- In interviews with The Wall of 4 square miles on the east 0 0
fillment specialist Deliverr gic port city in Ukraine’s Street Journal, Ms. Zaitseva bank of the Kalmius River that
in a $2.1 billion deal. B4 southeast, Anna Zaitseva, a and other civilians who es- divides Mariupol in two. There
young schoolteacher, found caped from Azovstal painted a are 40 bunkers underground, –1 –1
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World-Wide herself scrambling for safety. picture of what life was like said one evacuee who worked
After a night in their apart- inside. at the plant, five of which are –2 –2
ment block’s cramped, airless As the Russian army turned Please turn to page A8
Russia is intensifying basement, her husband, Kirill, Mariupol into rubble over
strikes on Ukrainian infra- suggested they move with more than two months, leav- Attacks in Russia expand –3 –3
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structure, seeking to dis- their infant son, Svyatoslav, ing thousands dead and de- scope of conflict...................... A8 Thursday
rupt deliveries of Western and Ms. Zaitseva’s parents to priving the city of food, water, U.S. shared intel that helped –4 10-minute intervals –4 –3.6%
weapons as Moscow’s of- what he deemed the ultimate electricity and phone signal, Ukraine sink warship............ A8
Wed. Thurs. Jan. 2022 March May
fensive in the east appears refuge: the bunkers beneath the steel plant became the fi- Kremlin effort to redraw
to have stalled. A1, A8-9 the sprawling Azovstal steel nal holdout and a symbol of export map faces hurdles... A9 Source: FactSet
The U.S. provided intel-
ligence that enabled Ukraine
to sink the missile cruiser
Moskva, the flagship of Booster INSIDE Musk Secures Fresh $7 Billion
Russia’s Black Sea fleet. A8
The Democratic and Re-
publican parties are weigh-
ing the political impact of
Collectives From Investors in Twitter Bid
Shake Up
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U.S. Weighs Shift in Lending Rules Labor
Market
Planned revamp in
loans in lower-income
communities comes as
Remains
online banking grows Tight
BY ANDREW ACKERMAN BY BRYAN MENA
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munities,” said incoming Fed- as the Democratic Biden admin- become a source of conflict be- communities in the area on CRA’s important mission for New filings for jobless benefits
eral Reserve Vice Chairwoman istration has pledged to do tween community groups that around their offices, even years to come,” said Richard
ly
Lael Brainard, in a written more to address disparities in want the rules to be enforced though they now accept depos- Hunt, the industry group’s 800,000
Week ended April 30
statement. The Fed is one of wealth, incomes and access to more strongly and bankers its and make loans around the president and chief executive, 200,000
three regulators rewriting the financial services among Black who argue the regulations are country via online accounts. in a written statement.
lending rules.
The other two, the Office of
the Comptroller of the Cur-
rency and the Federal Deposit
Americans and other racial mi-
nority groups.
The Community Reinvest-
ment Act is designed to end
ontoo bureaucratic and haven’t This has led to a glut of rein-
vestment act spending in
places such as Salt Lake City,
where dozens of banks are
Consumer advocates said
they hoped the proposal would
boost banks’ obligations under
the law. “The impact will be
600,000
on the proposal Thursday. The practice of avoiding lending in change could be branches elsewhere. in terms of what’s expected 400,000
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regulators will collect public certain areas, often lower-in- If Thursday’s plan is final- from banks,” said Jesse Van
finalized by the end
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al a
comment on the proposal come communities, frequently ized in the coming months, it Tol, president and chief execu-
through early August before leading to stark economic dis- of the year. would aim to spread online tive of the National Community
200,000
writing final rules. Congressio- parities along racial lines. banks’ related activities nation- Reinvestment Coalition, a fair-
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nal approval isn’t needed. Still, some officials sug- ally. Banks would generally be lending advocacy group.
The proposal doesn’t cover gested they were unconvinced assessed for the CRA obliga- Mr. Van Tol said there is a
nonbank lenders, who write a Thursday’s proposal would im- kept up with technological tions in areas where they don’t major gap in one aspect of the 0
large share of consumer loans. prove bank reinvestment activi- changes, among other criti- have physical offices if they proposal: It wouldn’t apply to
2021 ’22
That change would require ties. cisms. Banks are typically ex- make 100 mortgage loans or the nonbank financial firms
er s
congressional approval. Fed governor Michelle Bow- amined every three years on 250 small business loans in a that now provide the bulk of Note: Seasonally adjusted
Under the plan, large banks man, appointed by former Re- their CRA efforts. A bad grade particular area for at least two the consumer loans in the U.S., Source: Labor Department via the St. Louis Fed
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would face expanded scrutiny publican President Donald effectively prohibits mergers. years. such as in the mortgage mar-
of their auto lending activities Trump, said in a statement Thursday’s proposal aims to At present, banks are evalu- ket. Nonbanks originated about lowest level since January
if such loans comprise a signifi- that it remained unclear if the make rules more transparent ated on compliance with the act 75.5% of government-backed 1970. Continuing claims are
cant portion of their business, overhaul’s costs will be greater and objective, potentially mak- based on a complex formula. home loans as of March 2022, reported with a one-week lag.
in addition to mortgages and than its benefits. “While I sup- ing it easier for banks to un- The Consumer Bankers As- according to the Urban Insti- The low level of worker
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small-business loans. Officials port issuing the proposed rule derstand their regulatory re- sociation said it welcomed the tute. jobless claims is among sev-
eral signs of a robust labor
market that has strong job
5.5%
The Labor Department on
Friday will release April em-
Thursday BY CHARLEY GRANT ing season takes hold. The av- Freddie’s weekly average lower their monthly bills. De- ployment figures. Economists
5.0 5.27% erage rate on America’s most was recorded before the cen- mand for adjustable-rate surveyed by The Wall Street
The steady climb in mort- popular home loan was 3.22% tral bank’s Wednesday an- mortgages has risen sharply Journal estimate employers
4.5 gage rates shows no sign of in early January and 2.96% a nouncement. Mortgage rates in recent months, according to added 400,000 jobs last
slowing down. year ago. From January to are closely tied to the yield on the Mortgage Bankers Associ- month and that the unem-
4.0 The average rate for a 30- April, rates rose at their fast- the 10-year U.S. Treasury, ation. ployment rate ticked down to
year fixed-rate home loan rose est three-month pace since which tends to rise in tandem MBA chief economist Mike 3.5% from 3.6% the prior
to 5.27% from 5.1% a week ear- 1994. with the Fed’s benchmark Fratantoni said on Wednesday month.
3.5
lier, housing-finance giant On Wednesday, the Federal rate. that mortgage rates are likely Job gains have been above
Freddie Mac said Thursday. Reserve raised interest rates Higher rates can translate to plateau near current levels. 400,000 each month since
3.0 That marked the weekly fig- by half a percentage point in a into larger monthly payments That should encourage last May, the longest such
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ure’s highest reading in nearly bid to curb inflation. Chairman for borrowers, who are getting more consumers to buy, but streak since 1939, and the
2.5 13 years. Jerome Powell indicated that creative in response. Some demand to refinance existing 3.6% unemployment rate in
2021 ’22
Thursday’s reading contin- additional half-point increases buyers are paying fees to cut mortgages is unlikely to re- March was close to matching
ued what has been a rapid could be warranted at meet- their mortgage rates or boost- cover soon, the trade group the low reached ahead of the
no
Source: Freddie Mac surge as the busy spring sell- ings in June and July. ing their down payments to said. pandemic.
CORRECTIONS
Stocks Dive The pullback came a day af-
ter major U.S. stock indexes
soared, with the Dow climbing
0% Share-price and index
performance Thursday
said they were hesitant about
the stock market’s outlook.
If the Fed tries “to do too AMPLIFICATIONS
In Dizzying
S&P 500
more than 900 points, its big- much and the market comes un-
gest one-day gain since 2020. –2 –3.6% glued, then [Fed officials] kind Readers can alert The Wall Street
Journal to any errors in news
On Wednesday, central-bank of- Russell 1000 of shot themselves in the foot
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Tornadoes Leave Behind Destruction in Oklahoma and Texas
FDA Limits
J&J Shot Over
Blood Clots
BY LIZ ESSLEY WHYTE April 2021 paused the use of
AND PETER LOFTUS J&J’s vaccine to investigate the
clotting-condition risk. Later
.
risk for the rare but life- it had determined 3.23 cases cano. increasing global temperatures The level during April aver-
threatening side effect. of TTS were reported for ev- The April reading was the to which they are linked—indi- aged 420 parts per million, sci-
ly
375
In the U.S., roughly 17 mil- ery million doses of the J&J highest since monitoring of at- cate efforts to rein in carbon entists said. The previous high
vaccine administered, and that mospheric carbon dioxide be- emissions are falling short. last May was 419 parts per
0.48 deaths were reported per 350 gan 64 years ago, said Pieter Emissions from the burning million.
J&J’s Covid vaccine
has a different design
million doses of the vaccine
administered.
The agency said J&J’s vac-
cine was also still authorized
on325
Tans, a senior scientist at the
National Oceanic and Atmo-
spheric Administration’s Global
Monitoring Laboratory in Boul-
of coal, oil and natural gas for
energy sent 36.3 billion metric
tons of carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere in 2021, the Inter-
The last time atmospheric
carbon-dioxide levels were so
high occurred more than 2.5
million years ago, analyses of
than the shots from for adults who have had an al-
300
der, Colo. The previous high at national Energy Agency said. fossils and minerals suggest.
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Pfizer and Moderna. lergic reaction to one of the 1960 ’70 ’80 ’90 2000 ’10 ’20 Mauna Loa was set last May. “To mitigate the impacts of Carbon-dioxide levels at that
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messenger RNA vaccines from Source: National Oceanic and The uptick is part of a de- climate change, we need to get time are believed to have ex-
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al a
Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Atmospheric Administration cadeslong rise in atmospheric to net-zero emissions and halt ceeded 400 parts per million.
or who would otherwise not re-
lion people have gotten the J&J ceive a vaccine, including those
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and from Moderna Inc., ac- cine has a different design. It models of understanding like
cording to the Centers for Dis- uses a common virus, an aden- A vast reservoir of ancient how ice flows,” said Chloe
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ease Control and Prevention. ovirus, to deliver a gene that water has been found thou- Gustafson, a postdoctoral re-
Because of the risk for the sets off an immune response sands of feet under the ice in searcher at the University of
clotting condition, the CDC in against the coronavirus. western Antarctica, scientists California, San Diego’s Scripps
December recommended that A Covid-19 vaccine from As- said in a paper published Institution of Oceanography
KERRY KEY/LAMONT-DOHERTY EARTH OBSERVATORY
patients opt for one of the traZeneca PLC uses a similar Thursday in the journal Sci- and a co-author of the paper.
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other vaccines over the John- design and has been linked to ence. “I don’t know if you could
son and Johnson shot. an increased risk of TTS. That Researchers had long sus- say we’re underestimating ice
“Our action reflects our up- vaccine is available in other pected but never established loss, but we are missing a pro-
dated analysis of the risk of countries, but not in the U.S. the existence of hidden pock- cess in trying to understand
TTS following administration of Initially, health authorities ets of Antarctic groundwater, how ice moves off the conti-
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this vaccine and limits the use and experts said J&J’s vaccine which they believe act to nent,” she said.
of the vaccine to certain indi- would be an important tool for lessen friction between ice Most of Antarctica is cov-
viduals,” said Peter Marks, who vaccinating residents of poor sheets and underlying bedrock ered with a thick ice sheet, the
leads the FDA division respon- countries with large rural pop- to make the ice more prone to edges of which periodically
sible for regulating vaccines. ulations, as its one-dose regi- slide from the continent’s in- slide into the surrounding
J&J said it has updated the men often makes it easier to terior toward the surrounding Southern Ocean to form float-
fact sheet for its vaccine to in- administer in far-flung loca- ocean. ing ice shelves. Friction asso-
crease awareness of the clot- tions. Yet the safety concerns The first-of-its-kind discov- Researchers install geophysical instruments to measure ciated with the sliding and
ting condition. “Data continue combined with manufacturing ery—made possible by an groundwater below western Antarctica. heat rising from Earth’s core
to support a favorable benefit- problems that limited supply electromagnetic field measur- together form streams of
risk profile for the Johnson & have diminished the role of ing technique that is rarely It adds to a growing body ing sea level rise are meltwater just below the
Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in J&J’s vaccine. used in polar environments— of evidence showing that the incomplete. sheet, lubricating the ice in
adults, when compared with shows there is far more water complex computer models sci- “Because there were no ob- some areas and facilitating
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no vaccine,” the company said. WHO estimate links nearly 15 under the Antarctic ice than entists use to calculate Ant- servations of groundwater those areas’ glissade off the
U.S. health authorities in million deaths to Covid..... A10 scientists realized. arctic ice loss and the result- prior to our study, it hasn’t re- rock and into the ocean.
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most in midterms from had abortions when they were final decision isn’t set. gives a mixed picture of which the executive branch, the Dis- tional-security law to senior
younger. “I just can’t believe The Democratic hope is voters would be most moti- trict of Columbia city govern- Army leadership. In her cur-
ly
ruling on divisive issue the next generation isn’t going that abortion rights, and the vated to vote, or what choices ment or, in the case of the rent post, she is an officer of
to have that choice. It’s impor- prospect of losing them, carry they would make, as the result the court and not part of the
Democrats hope that the tant that all women step up.” such emotional salience that of a change in abortion rights U.S. Marshals Service.
Supreme Court’s draft opinion
ending a constitutional right to
abortion will accomplish what
President Biden and his party
By contrast, David Brasing-
ton, a Republican and retired
building-maintenance worker
from Statesboro, Ga., doubted
onthe issue will resonate with
the party’s core supporters.
Some analysts see that as the
likely outcome, even if the
law.
A range of polling finds lit-
tle appetite for the Supreme
Court to overturn Roe. Sur-
Theleakofthe draft
Roev.Wadeopinion
Congress has authorized
the court police to enforce any
federal or state law on or near
the court’s grounds.
in Congress so far haven’t: In- that an abortion ruling would court’s final decision is less veys by CNN and the Pew Re-
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jecting urgency into the mid- outweigh the factors that have sweeping. search Center have found mightnotbe a crime. the investigation will be. The
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term elections so that Demo- dispirited Democratic voters Christine Matthews, a poll- about 70% support for retain- court’s announcement didn’t
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crats feel the need to vote. and would bring them to the ster who has worked for Re- ing Roe, and Gallup polls have define the parameters of the
polls. “With everything I’ve publican candidates, said focus pegged support at about 60%. probe. At this point, neither
By Aaron Zitner in seen, Democrats are tired of groups she runs suggest that But a Wall Street Journal Capitol Police, Congress; the the FBI nor the Justice De-
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Washington and high gas prices, too,” said Mr. the issue carries impact. “I poll in March found plurality marshal reports only to the partment has been asked to
Joshua Jamerson in Brasington, 66 years old. hear people saying that Roe support, though narrowly, for court. help, a law-enforcement offi-
Statesboro, Ga. Speculation about the polit- being overturned seems ab- laws that ban most abortions “It is not the most aggres- cial said.
ical impact of an abortion rul- stract, that ‘it couldn’t happen after the 15th week of preg- sive way to pursue” an investi- “To run an effective leak in-
Republican leaders, by con- ing turns on a central fact in our state,’ ” she said. “The nancy. That is a narrower win- gation, said John Q. Barrett, a vestigation, especially against
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trast, argue that the prospect about midterm elections: Voter leak of the opinion is like a big dow than under current Su- law professor at St. John’s someone who is sophisticated,
of a long-sought abortion vic- turnout tends to drop in the bomb dropping—it will wake preme Court rulings. University. “It’s a careful, it would be extremely impor-
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tory will energize their own president’s party, while the op- people up and make them say, Ruy Teixeira, a Democratic nearby, trusted employee who tant to have the ability to
voters—and that Democratic posing party, unhappy over ‘Oh, it could happen to me.’ ” demographer, argues that can take on this task. It keeps compel both suspects and
enthusiasm will continue to losing the last presidential Others rebuffed the idea Democrats face midterm chal- it close and maximizes confi- third parties to turn over rele-
lag due to unhappiness with election, is eager to vote again. that news of the draft opinion lenges in large part because dentiality.” vant evidence,” said Kellen
inflation, Covid-19 and what That disparity is turning up fundamentally changes the po- they are too identified with A Supreme Court spokes- Dwyer, a former federal prose-
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they portray as the majority in surveys such as a recent litical environment. liberal stances on immigra- woman didn’t respond to re- cutor who is now at the law
party’s limited legislative ac- Fox News poll, which found “I think the effect is going tion, policing and race that quests for more information firm Alston & Bird.
complishments in Washington. that 52% of Republicans but to be significantly less than have alienated centrist voters. about how the investigation But in this case, Justice De-
Control of both chambers of only 41% of Democrats rated anticipated,’’ said Gene Ulm, a He said that while party lead- might unfold or whether Col. partment involvement might
Congress after November’s themselves as having the high- GOP pollster. States with the ers have broad public support Curley would be made avail- not be an option; unlike leaks
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elections could be determined est level of interest in the heaviest concentrations of for their call to retain Roe, able for an interview. of classified information,
by which party’s analysis of midterms—an 11-point GOP abortion-rights supporters they must still move to the Court observers said the which can be unlawful, the
the abortion issue is right. advantage. also tend to have less-restric- center on other issues. probe will likely first focus on disclosure of internal Supreme
Democrat Jill Shaw, a Ken- Now, the two parties are tive abortion laws, and so im- “Democrats would be fool- a small group of people who Court documents might not
tucky native who retired to watching to see if voters react pact there will be limited, he ish to assume that this in and have access to draft opinions: qualify as a crime, Mr. Dwyer
Florida, said the expected court as they have predicted to the said. “The sky could fall but of itself is a ‘get out of jail the nine justices, their 36 law and others said. “Even if you
ruling gives her extra motiva- prospect of a Supreme Court not hit anyone,’’ he said. free’ card,’’ he said of the clerks, and a small number of could find a statute that ap-
tion to vote this year and to overturning of Roe v. Wade, “The things driving the elec- abortion debate. judicial and executive assis- plied, you’d have a really hard
encourage others to do so. the landmark decision that es- torate are inflation, the cost of —John McCormick, Eliza tants in each office. time in the courts,” he said.
“This will definitely be tablished abortion as a consti- gas—the pocketbook cluster of Collins and Lindsay Wise “It’s a tightknit group of —Jess Bravin
front and center for me as an tutional right. That possibility issues. Americans are under contributed to this article. people who work in that build- contributed to this article.
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Disaster Declaration
Made as Fires Rage
President Biden approved a di-
saster declaration for New Mex-
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ico, making additional resources
and funding available for commu-
nities ravaged by wildfires this
spring, as firefighters in the state
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made progress containing a
165,000-acre blaze.
The president’s disaster relief
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for housing repairs and tempo-
rary accommodations, as well as
ly
KENTUCKY HOME
assistance for affected business
owners.
The relief comes as more than
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President Appoints
New Press Secretary
President Biden named Karine
Jean-Pierre to be his new press
co Fo
the administration.
Mr. Biden said in a statement
that Ms. Jean-Pierre would bring
“the experience, talent and in-
tegrity needed for this difficult
job” and would communicate the
work of his administration. He
said Ms. Psaki had “set the
standard for returning decency,
respect and decorum to the
White House Briefing Room.” Governor Andy Beshear and Pratt Industries Chairman
Ms. Psaki, who had planned
to stay a year but extended her
Anthony Pratt at the groundbreaking in Henderson, Ky.
tenure into the start of 2022, is
expected to depart for an on-air
role with MSNBC and the affili-
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A blood-testing machine
the agency said, although it
noted its policies call for re-
placement when a device is past
Plastic at
needed to detect heart attacks
took more than a year to re-
place at the U.S. Indian Health
its useful life.
.
creditation and recruit staff. It the agency overhauled its abuse curements could take time be- past its end-of-life date as of current and former IHS medical plastics and recycling indus-
said it had made improvements, reporting procedures and cause of “various reviews in- March 2021, an inventory ob- staff said. For instance, a car- tries. When the country
ly
including updating and stan- changed its rules for hiring doc- tained from the agency in a diac monitor needed to admit stopped taking imports of plas-
dardizing the software it uses tors. public-records request shows. inpatients at the Fort Yates, tic waste in 2018, recycling
to track equipment in 2020. In And 10% of the equipment was N.D., IHS hospital took over 18 markets in the U.S. and other
The Indian Health
response to questions from the
Journal, the agency said staff at
its Rockville, Md., headquarters
would review its processes for
Bureaucratic delays
The survey points to another
problem at the agency. IHS hos-
pitals buy most routine medical
on
Service provides care
to 2.6 million people,
more than five years past its in-
tended life expectancy, includ-
ing devices like fetal heart de-
tectors, defibrillators and
months to replace. People work-
ing at the facility at the time
said the regional contracting of-
fice took so long to approve
countries were left in disarray.
Demand to use recycled
plastic in products is low,
which in turn makes prices of
acquiring equipment to make equipment out of their local op- primarily in the West. ultrasound machines. their procurement requests that recycled plastic low and
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further improvements. erating budgets, current and The IHS statement said the vendor bids expired, forcing doesn’t motivate collection
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The IHS, which provides former officials said, but many agency estimates that it would them to restart the process. and sorting of plastic waste,
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healthcare to 2.6 million Native facilities, such as those in the need about $100 million a year, Meanwhile, reports the hos- said Paschalis Alexandridis, a
American patients primarily in Dakotas, rely on regional offi- volved,” uncertainty about adjusted for inflation, to ade- pital filed with the federal distinguished professor at the
the West, has struggled for cials to approve the orders. The funding and shortages of acqui- quately replace aging equip- Medicare agency show it aver- University at Buffalo’s Depart-
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years with budget shortfalls and arrangement has led to lengthy sitions staff. ment and received a 2022 bud- aged less than one patient a ment of Chemical and Biologi-
difficulty recruiting staff at its delays, lost procurement forms Like in all parts of the IHS, get of just $30.4 million for that night for its 12 hospital beds cal Engineering.
facilities, sometimes leading to and erroneous orders. funding is an obstacle. If a piece purpose. President Biden’s 2023 during the period, in part, peo- The Plastics Industry Asso-
workarounds that can endanger There is a layer of bureau- of equipment should be budget proposal, if approved, ple familiar with the matter ciation, a trade group, said the
patients. The Journal reported cracy between the people who changed out every five or six would fully fund the agency’s said, because there was no report “blindly estimates cur-
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in a series of articles in 2019 need the equipment and the years, “with the level of funding equipment needs. heart monitor in the unit. rent recycling rates based on
that the IHS repeatedly ignored senior managers who must ap- that we had, it was more than Not all equipment must be —Dan Frosch outdated information and ir-
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complaints that one pediatri- prove it, said Rodney Vizcarra, double that,” said Gary Hartz, replaced at its end-of-life date, contributed to this article. relevant data.”
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ing and trying to destroy Ukrai- tor said. Lviv, some 30 miles regions confirmed strikes Ukrainian President Volod- Minister Naftali Bennett said the call between the leaders
nian units in the Azovstal area. from the border with Poland, overnight but didn’t give an ymyr Zelensky said the in- Thursday that he accepted an didn’t mention an apology.
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BY THOMAS GROVE tion depot near the city of Bel- Russia during artillery ex- icy Research Institute, a Phila- Ukraine wants to do the exact killed one pilot. Neither Rus-
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targets near the border with tary base. Other explosions have nor Vyacheslav Gladkov denied eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region continue to conduct cross-bor- died from wounds he suffered
Ukraine have expanded the damaged rail lines beyond Bel- the city of Belgorod had come der strikes to disrupt Russian when Ukraine hit the Mille-
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weeks, underscoring Russian
vulnerabilities in regions that
and Bryansk. Ukraine has denied
a role in the incidents.
telling residents that a series of
loud explosions in recent days
Assaults have hit that the Ukrainians will re-
ceive from the West are much
tov province on Feb. 25 with a
Tochka-U ballistic missile.
are crucial to Moscow’s renewed Ukrainian presidential adviser were the result of military oper- infrastructure vital to more powerful than anything Russia’s failure to prevent
offensive in eastern Ukraine. Mykhailo Podolyak, who de- ations, without elaborating.
Moscow’s offensive they or the Russians have, more of the incidents at fuel
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tudes to evade air defenses, and higher power following the kill- structure inside Russia to Ukraine proved its ability to Ukraine, Mr. Lee said.
launched a missile attack on a ing of Ukrainian civilians. “There disrupt Moscow’s effort to con- reach targets in Russia. The The strikes have increased
fuel depot in the Belgorod re- may be totally different reasons centrate forces in Ukraine’s east. and deploy Russian soldiers day after Russia launched since Western officials said
gion on the western edge of the for the destruction of military “Ukraine is looking to south toward the urban centers early-morning missile attacks Kyiv’s war effort could go be-
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Kharkiv, Russian officials said. tervention,” he said. that could disrupt the Russian operations in the east is located. legedly hit one of the airfields analysts haven’t ruled out other
Since then, an explosion Moscow blamed Ukraine on war effort,” said Rob Lee, a se- “Russia wants to make this involved in the invasion with a factors in the blasts, including
sparked a blaze at an ammuni- Thursday for shelling inside nior fellow at the Foreign Pol- fight about the Donbas. ballistic missile strike that Russia’s lax safety standards.
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said there were about 75 peo- posted online from the plant.
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els below ground to withstand ing place.”
a nuclear blast. Russia said Wednesday that
Those trapped inside, in- humanitarian corridors would
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been escalating sanctions and many,” said Andrew Adams, ports. Among the proposals are unrest as incomes fall.
commodities flows to increase its gas imports
other enforcement actions the federal prosecutor leading a phased ban on Russian oil The export shake-up is also carries high stakes. from Russia.
against Russian elites as part the task force, known as Klep- purchases as well as sanctions crucial for the global economy. Russia has found a willing
of an international effort to toCapture. on
on service providers, such as
ship insurers, that would stifle
Russian crude shipments to
other parts of the world.
Russia grew in recent decades
into a leading exporter of a
range of commodities to the
world, akin to a giant gas sta-
“Let us assume that energy
supplies to the West will con-
customer for its oil in India,
which counts Russia as its big-
gest arms supplier and has
stayed neutral in the Ukraine
The new infrastructure that tion and mining pit for inter- tinue going down in the fore- conflict. Having bought only
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chartering ships to transport “Russia’s energy pivot to ways, pipelines and ports— rels a day in April, according
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its oil as insurers and banks Asia faces infrastructure bot- which will make it possible to to data provider Kpler.
fear the impact of sanctions. tlenecks, uncertain demand redirect the supplies of oil and The downside for the Krem-
Major trading houses, mean- and cumbersome logistics,” gas from the West to promis- lin is that India is buying Rus-
while, are cutting their Rus- said Maria Shagina, visiting ing markets in the South and sian crude on the cheap.
sian business. It is also uncer- senior fellow at the Finnish In- the East in the next few years.” “The big risk for Russian
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commodities big buyers such While China and India could gas link to China via Mongolia, becomes a perennially dis-
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The superyacht Amadea was docked in Lautoka, Fiji, on April 13. buy, as Beijing looks to diver- imports, that “cannot compen- $55 billion Power of Siberia tona, energy analyst at Kpler.
BY ROBERT P. WALZER The music video was re- organization in Ukraine that
corded in cities where battles has refocused its efforts to
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When Russia invaded, the have raged—Irpin, Kharkiv and help war refugees, according
lead singer of one of Ukraine’s Kyiv. to a statement from Mr.
biggest pop-rock bands Mr. Topolia’s part was re- Sheeran. Music Saves couldn’t
swapped his mic for fatigues corded on the road between be reached to comment.
and headed to the front lines battle positions in northeast Mr. Topolia said he became
as a battlefield medic. Ukraine, he said, in part using a medic in the conflict after
Singer Taras Topolia has a GoPro. “The positions are al- working in that role during
taken on an additional role, ways under fire,” he said. “It Russia’s 2014 invasion in
joining forces with pop star Ed is very dangerous if you stop Ukraine’s Donbas region. He
Sheeran to raise relief funds for for more than 10 minutes said he has helped many
Ukraine. Mr. Sheeran and Mr. there because Russian drones wounded soldiers in the cur-
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Topolia’s band Antytila this and snipers are at work.” rent conflict, and prepared
week released a video remake of For the sound recording, them for a possible chemical
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Mr. Sheeran’s 2021 hit “2Step,” Mr. Topolia said he didn’t have attack in the use of gas masks
featuring Mr. Topolia rapping access to his Kyiv studio after and medicinal antidotes.
about his war experience. Russia began attacking the In Ukraine, Antytila draws
“The sirens interrupted our capital on Feb. 24, but the stadium crowds with thou-
no
sleep,” Mr. Topolia sings in band found a studio in nearby sands of people. When on tour
Ukrainian. “Grabbed in two Hostomel. He said the crew in other European countries
suitcases everything that is came under Russian fire when Taras Topolia, center, with other members of the band Antytila, joined the Territorial Defense Forces. and in the U.S., the crowds are
the past, then go! Go!” they were recording parts of far more modest.
“My friends and I became the video in Kharkiv. said: “I stand with Ukraine.” concert organizers rejected The video has garnered Were Messrs. Sheeran and
soldiers and joined the Territo- Mr. Sheeran, who wasn’t The collaboration with Mr. Antytila’s offer due to its more than 10 million streams Topolia known to each other
rial Defense Forces the first available to comment, filmed Sheeran began after Antytila members’ links with Ukraine’s since it went live Monday, said before the conflict? “I knew of
day of the war,” Mr. Topolia, the original “2Step” video in offered to play this year at a military, Mr. Topolia said. a representative of Mr. Topo- him, of course; his songs are
34 years old, said by video chat Kyiv before the war began. In Ukraine-benefit concert in Bir- But later, Mr. Sheeran’s rep- lia. Funds raised from YouTube very famous in Ukraine. But I
from outside Kharkiv, where that video version, Mr. mingham, U.K., where Mr. resentatives contacted him to video royalties will be sent to don’t think he knew who I
his 130th Battalion is stationed. Sheeran posted a note that Sheeran was performing. The propose a collaboration. Music Saves UA, a music-trade was,” Mr. Topolia said.
and then saying that they’ll In posts on Twitter, work- world.” decline its offers, technology thought it was about us. Then
start and not showing up—is ers offered all sorts of reasons Home-cleaning business company NetApp Inc. has we started talking to other
at a record high,” said Jonas for blowing off new jobs. They Duster & Daisy Green Clean streamlined its hiring pro- business owners, and they said
Prising, chairman and CEO of said they got better offers be- Service in Corpus Christi, Sunny Zhang said it’s hard to cesses and cut the number of they’re dealing with the same
staffing agency Manpower- tween when they were hired Texas, has been trying to hire get new recruits to show up. interviews for some jobs. The thing.”
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WORLD NEWS
BOE Lifts Rate, Signals Caution China’s
Services
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home orders for everyone else,
the economy could shrink in
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that time of 481,000 deaths. for the pandemic far higher South Africa—were among the “Knowing how many people vices. A reading above 50 indi-
NEW DELHI—The World India’s count has risen to than other countries. Russia top 20 countries that account died due to the pandemic will cates expansion and below 50
Health Organization estimated about 524,000 since then. was the next highest with for more than 80% of the esti- help us to be better prepared points to a contraction. The
that nearly 15 million people The report, which was com- nearly 1.1 million deaths, ac- mated global excess mortality, for the next,” Samira Asma, index sank to a record low of
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the coronavirus pandemic by the world, has sparked fierce by Indonesia at over one mil- The new figures come as of- the WHO in charge of data and New business orders and
the end of 2021, putting the toll resistance from India, where lion and the U.S. at more than ficial data for parts of the conti- analytics, said on Thursday. exports both fell sharply, while
from Covid-19 at nearly three government officials have de- 930,000. India has more than nent show extremely low death The WHO’s report covers staffing levels dropped for the
times the number that had been nounced the health agency’s 1.3 billion people, and health rates, but evidence of higher tal- those who died directly related fourth straight month. Firms
officially recorded by countries. methodology and objected to experts say many people in lies has begun to emerge. to the Covid-19 pandemic and cut prices to win what new
India suffered the highest the release of the report. the country didn’t get tested Getting an accurate count those who died indirectly, such business they could find, ac-
toll of any country in the “Despite India’s objection to for Covid-19 and died at home, of Covid-related deaths, in- as people unable to get proper cording to the survey.
world, according to the report the process, methodology and particularly during a devastat- cluding data such as demo- medical care for other illnesses. The deterioration in the
released on Thursday, but outcome of this modeling exer- ing Delta wave last year. graphics, times and locations, It used statistical models tak- services sector offers another
most of the deaths have gone cise, WHO has released the ex- The WHO estimated that can help countries judge the ing into account factors such as glimpse into the growing eco-
unrecorded. The 4.7 million cess mortality estimates with- excess deaths in Africa over effectiveness of their Covid-19 local government and national nomic costs of China’s tough
people who died in India by out adequately addressing the same period were 1.25 mil- policies. The data can also be data, demographics and poli- approach to the Omicron vari-
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ISRAEL
Suspected Terrorist
Attack Kills at Least 3
A suspected terrorist attack in
central Israel killed at least three
people and injured several others
Thursday, rattling the country as
it celebrated independence day.
Two unidentified assailants
were involved in the assault, in-
cluding one who used a gun and
another wielding an ax, said an
Israeli police spokeswoman. Hun-
dreds of officers were searching
for the perpetrators, whose
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team minutes after the Austra- nalistic institutions. In July intended to launch before an ap- formed beforehand and the im-
lian Senate voted to approve the 2020, it published a legislative peals process was ready, the portant Government health
watered-down bill at the end of proposal aimed at fixing the is- documents show. The move pages were not accidentally
February 2021.
Facebook Chief Executive
Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Op-
erating Officer Sheryl Sandberg
sue by forcing platforms to ne-
gotiate payment with publishers
under binding arbitration.
Both Facebook and Google
on didn’t follow typical procedure,
according to the people familiar
with the takedown.
“An appeals process was be-
blocked.”
“We’re focused mostly still
debugging the active situation
but will afterward post-mortem
chimed in with congratulations fought the legislation, arguing ing built, but the agreement was it,” Mr. Rosenthal wrote.
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execution.” both effectively threatened some ward a vote in February 2021, services such as the Children’s lem through Facebook’s internal proposed law, including adding
Facebook denied the moves kind of Australian blackout, with Google backed off its threat to Cancer Institute and Doctors tool that is used to track prob- language that allowed the Aus-
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were a negotiating tactic. Google warning it would shut shut down its search engine in Without Borders in Australia; lems and their solutions. A tralian Treasurer to weigh pri-
“The documents in question down its search engine in the Australia and instead forged pri- fire and rescue services during broad range of employees can vate deals between publishers
clearly show that we intended vate deals with news publishers. fire season, including the Bu- participate in and read the dis- and platforms before “designat-
to exempt Australian govern- Google spokeswoman Jenn reau of Meteorology and West- cussions on the internal logs. ing” a platform, a label that
ment Pages from restrictions in Crider said this week the com- ern Australian Department of “We took down pages that would require it to take part in
Whistleblowers said
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an effort to minimize the impact pany had worked with publish- Fire and Emergency Services; were clearly not owned by news the government-sanctioned ne-
of this misguided and harmful the project’s intent ers for more than 20 years to and emergency medical and do- publications,” wrote one em- gotiation process with publish-
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legislation,” said Facebook address challenges in the indus- mestic-violence services such as ployee, who was not on the ers that could end with binding
spokesman Andy Stone. “When
—as a negotiating try. “We also support thoughtful Mission Australia and the Ho- team blocking pages, on the final-offer arbitration.
we were unable to do so as in- tactic—was clear. regulation that will support a bart Women’s Shelter. first day, according to the inter- The previous version of the
tended due to a technical error, diverse, sustainable and innova- The health-service blackouts nal logs. “Such pages include law automatically subjected
we apologized and worked to tive news ecosystem that re- came just as the national Covid those operated by official gov- platforms like Facebook to the
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correct it. Any suggestion to the spects the open web and free vaccine rollout was being an- ernment sources, fire and emer- negotiation process, which the
contrary is categorically and ob- country and Facebook saying it expression it enables,” she said. nounced on Feb. 18, with inocu- gency services, universities, offi- platforms considered unwork-
viously false.” Facebook felt it would remove news from its On Feb. 18, about a week lations beginning on Feb. 22. cial health pages and charities able and onerous.
needed a broad tool because the platform in the country if the ahead of the final vote in the Shona Yang, the content for causes such as homelessness According to internal docu-
law didn’t define news, Mr. proposal became law. Australian Parliament, Facebook manager for Mission Australia, a and domestic violence.” ments, Facebook’s first action
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Stone said. Inside Facebook, according to began taking down pages. De- charity that provides housing The employee listed pages after the handshake deal was
People familiar with Face- the whistleblower complaints, spite the warnings from Face- and mental-health services, that had been improperly reached was to manually un-
book’s thinking said executives the company assembled a team book that it might make such a among other things, said her blocked and reinstated, such as block the page of the Australian
knew its process for classifying of about a dozen people to pre- move, the reality of the blackout team monitors its Facebook in- the Bureau of Meteorology and national government—which re-
news for the removal of pages pare to remove the news con- took Australians by surprise. box every morning for new in- City of Perth, as well as those quired just three lines of code.
was so broad that it would tent. The team largely consisted In a blog post explaining the quiries and to respond to calls still affected, such as the Mr. Stone said the Australian
likely hit government pages and of members of Facebook’s News move, Facebook said it was for assistance. During the pan- Women’s Legal Service Tasma- government didn’t inform Face-
other social services. They de- team, which typically worked on shutting off Australians’ ability demic, Ms. Yang said, Mission nia and WWF-Australia. book that the page was blocked
cided to take that route because products such as the Facebook to share news on its platform Australia also used private Face- The employee proposed that until Feb. 22. “We took action
Facebook was afraid a narrower News Tab, according to people and for international publishers book Groups to stay connected Facebook should “proactively shortly after they let us know it
definition might lead it to run familiar with the matter. to reach Australian audiences to clients who needed help. find all the affected pages and was down,” he said.
afoul of the law, which con- Instead of using Facebook’s on it because “the proposed law On the morning of the news restore them.” The person Australian officials explained
tained a nondiscrimination long-established database of ex- fundamentally misunderstands ban, staff members discovered added: “We should be proactive the change in the law by saying
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clause barring platforms from isting news publishers, called the relationship between our they couldn’t share a post on here, not reactive, given the Facebook had agreed to forge
carrying links to some news News Page Index, the newly as- platform and publishers who Facebook. The group posted on damage this is doing to Face- deals with publishers on its own.
publishers but not others, the sembled team developed a use it to share news content.” other social-media channels, let- book’s reputation in Australia.” Two hours later, Facebook’s
people said. crude algorithmic news classi- It was almost immediately ting clients know how they Facebook didn’t halt or re- Ms. Brown announced the
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Facebook also decided to re- fier that ensured more than just clear that Facebook had blocked could stay in touch. verse the process. It ramped up agreement publicly, saying “it
move pages before the law went news would be caught in the much more than news. The Aus- Inside Facebook, some em- the takedown, expanding the will allow us to support the
into effect because it feared that net, according to documents tralian press and internal docu- ployees were alarmed by the use of the algorithm from 50% publishers we choose to.”
publishers might take legal ac- and the people familiar with the ments show that Facebook had blocking of pages that shouldn’t to 100% of all Australian users The next day, the Australian
tion to block their ability to re- matter. “If 60% of [sic] more of also blocked pages for health have been and flagged the prob- over the next several hours. Senate voted to approve the
move news once the legislation Mr. Stone said the reason for changes to the law. Minutes
became law, the people said. the quick rollout was Facebook’s later, Ms. Brown emailed her
Facebook’s hardball approach fear of legal action. congratulations to the team.
provides a glimpse of how fu- Employees noted in an internal log to track problems that pages were This was contrary to typical The day after that, the Austra-
ture fights might go as similar Facebook procedure, which lian House voted the changes
legislation is introduced around
improperly being blocked. Later, the product manager wrote in the log that the would be to use the “canary” into law, and Facebook rolled
the world. Last month, Canada team had been advised to be ‘overinclusive’ in the pages that were blocked. method of testing a change on a back its takedown, reinstating
introduced legislation modeled small number of users, getting all the pages it had blocked.
on Australia’s that would force feedback about any problems, Ms. Sandberg and Mr. Zuck-
Google and Facebook to engage and adjusting the product be- erberg emailed congratulations
in a process that could include fore taking it to all users, ac- to the team, with Mr. Zucker-
“final offer” arbitration with cording to people familiar with berg writing, “This is something
publishers to decide on pay- the takedown. we’d been preparing for, but the
ment, a process that tends to fa- “The way this whole rollout last couple of weeks were really
vor publishers. Similar legisla- was scheduled ran contrary to intense,” adding that the com-
tion is circulating in the U.S. standard practices for rolling pany had achieved “the best
The Wall Street Journal’s out major changes that might possible outcome in Australia.”
parent company, News Corp, have potential side effects,” said The Australian government is
was one of the publishers that one of those people. conducting a review of the first
forged deals with both Alphabet The product manager for the year of the law and asking for
Inc.’s Google and Facebook in team wrote in the internal logs: comments to improve it.
Australia last year, and has been “Hey everyone—the [proposed Paul Fletcher, the Australian
an outspoken advocate that Australian law] we are respond- communications minister,
such platforms pay publishers ‘As part of these changes, we took down pages that ing to is extremely broad, so pointed to the deals that Google
for their content. guidance from the policy and le- and Facebook have made with
The Facebook documents, re-
were clearly not owned by news publications.’ gal team has been to be overin- at least 19 and 11 news organiza-
viewed by the Journal, have clusive and refine as we get tions, respectively, in Australia,
been submitted as part of whis- more information.” to pay them a total of more than
tleblower complaints filed with She then outlined the team’s $100 million a year, as evidence
the U.S. Department of Justice plan to undo the improper that the law is working.
and the Australian Competition blocking, including starting with Google’s Ms. Crider said her
& Consumer Commission, or “the most obvious cases” like company has done 60 deals
ACCC. The documents have also government and healthcare with publishers in Australia rep-
been shared with members of pages, and the need to go to resenting 170 publications.
Congress. outside legal counsel for “more Mr. Stone said Facebook has
Rod Sims, who was the chair ’...the code we are responding to is extremely broad, nuanced” cases. done deals in Australia with 13
of the Australian competition Facebook employees familiar publishers, representing 200
regulator at the time of Face-
so guidance from the policy and legal team has been with the move to remove pages newsrooms.
book’s news takedown, said he to be overinclusive and refine as we get more said this communication was As a result, the companies
believed Facebook’s explanation information. We are iterating quickly to get more and notable because it didn’t refer haven’t been “designated” by
at the time that the improper more folks out of the block.’ to any efforts made to avoid the treasurer, meaning they
blocking of some pages was a blocking sensitive accounts and don’t have to take part in the
mistake. “I gave them the bene- Source: Internal Facebook documents via Whistleblower Aid disclosure. Redactions and employee descriptions by Whistleblower Aid. information ahead of time. government-sanctioned negotia-
fit of the doubt that they just Facebook has many tools, tion process with publishers.
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IT MIGHT SOUND like docu- drives people to risk life and Their inspiration—and used his 8-by-10 prints as
mentary surf & turf, but limb in pursuit of their ec- co-star, to a large extent—is maps, marking various trails
there are more than a few static communion with the Bradford Washburn, who ap- and ascent points for future
similarities between the
mountain-climbing movie
and the surfing movie, aside
from their coexistence on
physical world.
Such is the case with
“The Sanctity of Space,” in
which climbers and filmmak-
on
pears visually, vocally and
also photographically. Wash-
burn, who died in 2007, was
an explorer, climber and
climbers—such as Mr. Oz-
turk, Mr. Wilkinson and their
friend Zack Smith—and de-
noting where to approach
the nonfiction menu. Both ers Renan Ozturk and Fred- photographer who had the the as-yet-unconquered
us ,
are, often enough, about ob- die Wilkinson set out to ac- good fortune to practice all peaks, such as those of the
l
session—an obsession that complish an ambitious climb his enthusiasms in the early jagged Moose’s Tooth.
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al a
mystifies those of us who —that of the Moose’s Tooth days of private aircraft: His Burying the lede a bit,
prefer to remain on solid massif in the Central Alas- took aerial photographs of the filmmakers don’t tell us,
ground. Both genres often kan Range south of Denali many significant world sites, or remind us, till very late
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involve tragedy. But both (formerly Mount McKinley but Denali specifically here, in the film that Washburn
have at their disposal some and the highest mountain in and he provided a perspec- also established, developed
of the most glorious and North America). It’s not the tive on those sites that was and served as director of
breathtaking photographic highest climb ever under- previously unseen. His pur- the Boston Museum of Sci-
opportunities available on taken, but it’s notoriously pose wasn’t art, though his ence from 1939 to 1980 and Exploring the blue glacial pools of the Great Gorge, Denali
er s
Earth. And sometimes they difficult. And with the cam- shots were artistic (the first that his wife, Barbara, was National Park, top; Bradford Washburn in 1955, above; on the
can use that visual splendor eras in the hands of the one we see might as well be the first woman to climb summit of the Moose’s Tooth, below.
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the single-minded nature of
the climber-directors, who
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NIGHT’S
deavors, than for the breath-
taking nature of his
photographs. At the same
time, those pictures, in glori-
DREAM
ous black-and-white, serve
as the dramatic and aes-
thetic counterweight to the
more current color footage
M ay 2 1–2 9 shot during the Ozturk-Wil-
kinson climbs and will en-
n-
gage viewers who might somewhere in the frame of than to try to do it himself
sympathize with another his shots, for scale. The from a moving airplane.
Washburn obsession— enormousness of Denali and “The Sanctity of Space” is
namely, the camera: Holding its surrounding mountains a title that comes out of Ar-
no
an object essentially the size wouldn’t have been as grasp- istotle and the citation is re-
and shape of a good-size able without them. What he cited at the end. As film au-
rolling pin, Washburn ex- would think of digital pho- diences move like migrating
plains that it’s a film roll, tography is unknown, but it reindeer away from theatri-
with which one could take would have made his job cal exhibition to streaming,
125 pictures of 8 by 10 easier: Holding one of his it will no doubt grow tire-
inches. He holds up a roll of massive 1920-era cameras, some to be told that you
35mm film for comparison, he explains how it was eas- must see certain films on a
which echoes what he did in ier to instruct the pilot how big screen. So I won’t say it.
his pictures: placing humans to fly to frame a shot, rather But please do.
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: MATTHEW MURPHY; MARC J. FRANKLIN (2)
T
awards, an “in memoriam” seg-
ment accidentally includes Buddy,
he last two Broadway leading to an unexpected but en-
musicals to open during tirely welcome burst of attention.
the frenetically busy “Mr. Saturday Night,” directed
spring season could by comedy specialist John Rando,
hardly be more starkly will garner no great acclaim for
contrasted. “A Strange sophistication or delicacy (“A
Loop,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning Strange Loop” is almost a shoo-in
.
musical with book, music and lyr- for the best musical Tony), but it
ics by Michael R. Jackson, is ex- is as delightfully funny as just
ly
traordinary in just about every about any musical of recent vin-
way—at least for Broadway, tage. The jokes come flying across
where it has found a strange the footlights with near-dizzying
berth. An intimate and personal
exploration of the tangled interior
life of a black gay man, it repre-
sents theater at its most daring
on speed, and virtually all of them
land in our laps like perfectly
pitched baseballs. Mr. Brown is a
skilled and proficient composer,
and unexpected. here employing a buoyant melodi-
us ,
Opening just a night later was cism that’s a nice fit for the
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those with a fond affection for Clockwise from top left: the cast of ‘A Strange Loop’; Billy Crystal in ‘Mr. Saturday Night’; Jaquel Spivey as Usher excellent voice) dragging things
Borscht Belt comedy. To see them down. But that’s not likely to
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just nights apart, as I did, was al- bother the audiences for whom
most whiplash-inducing. With “A duty, Usher is busy writing, or at- theater. (Stephen Sondheim is the point that Mr. Spivey all but “Mr. Saturday Night” is prime ma-
Strange Loop,” Broadway contin- tempting to write, or failing to clearly a major influence.) In its dissolves the lines between actor, terial. Schmaltz and shtick are a
ues its gradual opening up to write, the musical we are watching. brash depiction of the character’s character and the show that en- familiar combination since time
more venturesome musicals, like But in truth, and hilariously, Usher complicated sexuality—we actu- compasses them both. immemorial, or at least the glory
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“Hamilton,” “Hadestown” and oth- spends considerably more time ally see simulated sex onstage—“A Mr. Crystal certainly doesn’t days of Neil Simon. They go to-
ers—call it the future, or at least wrestling with varieties of self-tor- Strange Loop” feels transgressive, disappear into the role of Buddy gether like bagels and lox—and
the potential future. “Mr. Saturday ment. The rest of the cast—excel- but Usher’s sex life, his artistic Young, the almost dessicated comic who doesn’t like bagels and lox?
Night,” for all its lively charm, lent, all—portray the inner voices, ambition and his troubled rela- who is the central character in
harks back to Broadway’s past, mostly scolding or mocking, who tionship to his family are so hon- “Mr. Saturday Night,” but you
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which of course remains a large flit through Usher’s restless, end- estly depicted that, strange to say, wouldn’t want him to. At age 74, ‘A Strange Loop’
part of its present. lessly worried mind. Insecurity is there’s nothing particularly shock- Mr. Crystal retains the superlative Lyceum Theatre, 149 W. 45th Street,
Mr. Jackson’s “A Strange Loop,” his brand, almost his very being, ing about the show. Except, per- comic timing that he has displayed New York, $49-$189, 212-947-8844
seamlessly directed by Stephen and in Mr. Jackson’s hands, insecu- haps, its casual bravery about de- throughout his career. The musical,
Brackett, is unabashed in its self- rity is as endearing as it is moving. picting an overweight gay black based on a movie that pretty much ‘Mr. Saturday Night’
referentiality. It has only a single The show’s title comes from a man with all his fragilities and nobody saw, features a book by Mr. Nederlander Theatre, 208 W. 41st
significant character, Usher (Jaquel Liz Phair song, and Usher con- neuroses on display. Not inciden- Crystal and the team of Lowell St., New York, $69-$179,
Spivey), so named because that’s fesses to an affinity for what he tally, Mr. Spivey perfectly embod- Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (the 800-745-3000
his job, shepherding audiences into calls his “inner white girl,” but ies this conflicted character; same trio wrote the movie, in
and out of “The Lion King” (as Mr. Mr. Jackson’s music and lyrics re- rarely have I seen an actor disap- which Mr. Crystal starred), with Mr. Isherwood is the Journal’s
Jackson did). When he’s not on veal an astute study of musical pear so effortlessly into a role, to music by Jason Robert Brown and theater critic.
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Taiba, top, gallops at Churchill
Downs. Below, Bob Baffert and Amr
Zedan in the winner’s circle in 2021.
But the Horses He Trained Loom Large and recently [in the Derby], we’ve
seen that you need that early
speed,” he said.
Both of the former Baffert
Taiba and Messier might be the most interesting contenders in this year’s Run for the Roses horses will be ridden by Hall of
Fame jockeys who have recently
won the Derby on Baffert-
BY JIM CHAIRUSMI trained horses. John Ve-
.
the Triple Crown with American lazquez, who piloted Med-
C
hurchill Downs officials Pharoah in 2015, and did it again ina Spirit last year, and
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say Saturday’s 148th with Justify in 2018. Authentic took rode Authentic to victory
running of the Kentucky the pandemic-delayed 2020 Derby, in 2020, has the mount on
Derby will be back to while Medina Spirit was the first Messier. Mike Smith, who
“normal,” with full ca-
pacity, no Covid-19 restrictions and
horse racing’s biggest names in ac-
tion. There is one notable excep-
2021.
on
horse to cross the finish line in
prominent trainer, won’t be there. in December, Medina Spirit died Churchill Downs odds-
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tigation, Kentucky horse-racing offi- A spokesman for Churchill made Messier (8-1) the
cials earlier this year suspended Downs Inc. said in March, “[Baf- third choice in the wager-
Baffert for 90 days and disqualified fert’s] actions have harmed the rep- ing, behind Zandon (3-1)
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last year’s Derby winner, Medina utations of the Kentucky Derby, and Epicenter (7-2). De-
Spirit, for testing positive for be- Churchill Downs and the entire spite finishing ahead of
tamethasone, a corticosteroid that Thoroughbred racing industry.” Messier in his last race,
isn’t permitted in a horse’s system The Baffert camp doesn’t see it Taiba is 12-1.
on race day. Churchill Downs also that way. They say the trainer and “The fastest horse usu-
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won’t permit any Baffert-trained his late horse are victims of incon- ally wins most races in
horses to run in the next two Der- sistent rules, with varying stan- America,” said former
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bies. Baffert’s customary spot in dards on medication limits in each Hall of Fame jockey and
Barn 33 has been reassigned, and state. top 3-year-old colts, Taiba and horses to his barn has been “very NBC analyst Jerry Bailey. “These
the plaques commemorating his six “What has happened to Bob and Messier, were moved to the barn of routine.” (The horses came over horses are assigned speed figures
Derby triumphs have been re- the legacy of Medina Spirit have Tim Yakteen. Yakteen, 57, is a for- with their training charts—a log of based on the times of their races
moved. helped to shine a light on the sys- mer assistant to Baffert who has each horse’s workout routine—and and the tracks that they run over.
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But Baffert, 69, who has been in temic problems of today’s horse- had his own stable for nearly two inherited Baffert’s groom (caretaker The higher the number, the better
the winner’s circle after three of racing industry and the dire need decades, but has never previously of the horses) and exercise rider. the performance. In both of
the past four Kentucky Derbies, still for reform so that rules are consis- saddled a horse in a Triple Crown “Bob will root for Messier and [Taiba’s] races, his speed numbers
casts a huge shadow over this tent across the board and are ap- race. Taiba while watching the Derby are the fastest in the field.”
year’s race. Two of his former plied both consistently and fairly,” Racing under Yakteen’s name on with his family,” Brewster told the Bailey said it’s unclear how an
co Fo
horses—Taiba and Messier—are Baffert’s attorney, Clark Brewster, April 9, Taiba won the Santa Anita Journal. inexperienced runner like Taiba will
now top contenders under the care said on Wednesday in an emailed Derby, while Messier finished 2 ¼ Also rooting for Taiba will be react in a 20-horse field with
of a former Baffert assistant. statement. lengths behind in second to both Amr Zedan, who a year ago was at 150,000-plus screaming fans at
Of the two, Taiba (pronounced Baffert began his suspension on secure spots in the Kentucky Derby Churchill Downs celebrating the Churchill Downs.
Tay-bah) has become a focus of in- April 3 after a judge denied a re- starting gate. win of Medina Spirit, after the “This would be like a kid taking
trigue at Churchill Downs. He quest to stay the 90-day suspen- Yakteen says he “had a lottery horse he purchased for $35,000 led driver’s ed thrust onto I-95. Not
makes the leap to horse racing’s sion. The suspension, which will be ticket” dropped in his lap when the wire-to-wire in the Derby. Even be- during rush hour, because during
biggest stage after just two career honored by other racing jurisdic- two Derby contenders were moved fore Medina Spirit raced that day, rush hour, things are going slow.
starts, but also comes with the best tions across the country, means no to his care. “I’m trying to go to the Zedan had a plan to return in 2022 Everything goes fast in the Derby,”
speed numbers in the field—making Baffert-trained horses will run in window and cash it,” he said during with a 2-year-old he had bought for Bailey said. “So if he’s in a spot be-
his entry a battle between his raw the Preakness on May 21 or the Bel- a recent media call. $1.7 million at an auction in March hind horses that’s he’s never been
talent and his inexperience. mont on June 11. An appeal hearing On Monday, Yakteen said he 2021. That horse is Taiba, who had in before, it’s not a cinch that he’s
Baffert has had unprecedented is set to begin on June 28, after the hasn’t spoken to Baffert. the look of a classic winner. (Taiba going to react well to it. He weighs
n-
success in racing’s most lucrative Triple Crown season has already “There has been no communica- al-Taiba is a nickname for the Saudi 1,100 pounds and you weigh 100.
races and his horses have earned wrapped. tion,” he said. city of Medina.) [As a jockey,] you can’t make him
more than $330 million. He swept In early April, two of Baffert’s Yakteen said the transfer of both Now Taiba has the chance to do anything.”
no
The rise of alumni-funded collec- and recruits is verboten in college throw donor money in buying U, but Ruiz might as well be a one- players, who will reap 70% of
tives is now creating an organized, sports, but some collectives are players,” said Phillip Stutts, a po- man version: thus far he’s spon- ticket sales and all profits from a
deep-pocketed approach to athlete skirting this by dangling lucrative litical marketing executive who is sored more than 100 Hurricanes series of silent auctions. The tour’s
compensation. endorsement deals to prospective working as a senior adviser to athletes. first stop in Wichita on April 23
Some collectives operate via a athletes. Administrators are now High Tide Traditions, a collective Miami last month also landed brought in about $125,000 in reve-
subscription model that solicits rushing to stop this activity, which associated with the University of two of the most marketable female nue, selling 250 VIP tickets at $75
monthly dues from members, looks discomfitingly like “pay for Alabama. athletes in the country, twins Ha- each and more than 2,500 general
while others function as nonprof- play.” A task force reviewing NCAA The national landscape is dis- ley and Hanna Cavinder, basketball admission tickets for $30, and an-
its. Some even claim 501(c)3 status rules in this space could issue new jointed. Data compiled by the Busi- players at Fresno State with more other $30,000 from the auction.
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OPINION
Nothing But Roe to Run On BOOKSHELF | By Edward Kosner
Democrats
this week
seized on the
red and blue America.
It all imploded by the end
of 2009, after an $800 billion
My Dad
leaked
preme Court
draft opinion
Su- stimulus and the forced-march
passage of ObamaCare. Mrs.
Pelosi’s Blue Dogs were picked
The Dealmaker
POTOMAC on abortion off; Democrats hemorrhaged
D
tions, looking goes back to the drawing
to channel outrage into elec- board. It conducts “autopsies,” utiful sons often revere their fathers for their
toral success. Put another turns to new leaders, modu- instruction in the ways of the world—by direction
way, they are going down the lates its agenda. and indirection, sterling example and train wreck.
same road that landed them The left didn’t bother. In- I cherish my father’s simple credos: “People are funny”
here in the first place. stead it nominated Hillary (they can be full of grace or something else), “You get noth-
The liberal response to Jus- Clinton, whose progressive ing for nothing” (seek true value, not bargains), and “Put a
tice Samuel Alito’s draft opin- Protesters in Los Angeles May 3 platform (and 10-ton baggage) smile on your face, boy!” (face the world with confidence).
ion that would overturn Roe v. didn’t sell. It was Democrats The prolific author Rich Cohen’s father, Herb, offered
Wade was as predictable as it paigning to impeach sitting Democrats can move voters to who handed the presidency to him far more—a lifetime seminar in how to outfox oppo-
was substance-free. Forget justices on the ground that place abortion at the top of Donald Trump—who in turn nents in the great game of life by out-thinking, out-flanking,
any discussion about the legal they “lied” to the Senate in their federal priority list, much appointed three Supreme out-empathizing and thereby out-negotiating them. In his
reasoning in the case. Or any confirmation hearings. less sustain outrage over the Court justices. Even after the treat of a new book, “The Adventures of Herbie Cohen:
soul-searching as to how Dem- The Electoral College sys- topic for another six months. extraordinary loss in 2016, the World’s Greatest Negotiator,” proud son Rich portrays his
ocrats came to face a 6-3 con- tem is again in their sights, The bigger risk for the Democrats didn’t bother to re- dad as the Aristotle of hustle. Or, as the writer has it, a
servative high-court majority. since they claim that it is at party is that a scorched-earth calibrate, instead spending “Jewish Buddha.”
war with “democracy.” They abortion campaign simply al- four years throwing fuel on in- Herb Cohen, born in 1931, was raised in Brooklyn in one
want the winner of the popu- lows it to continue to ignore stitutional bonfires. Democrats of those lower-middle-class Jewish neighborhoods where
Democrats blame lar vote in presidential elec- the real reason for its dismal might have at least noted that some of the kids hanging out on the corner grew up to be
tions to take all. They want an polls (which also happens to Mr. Biden won his nomination marquee names known around much of the world. In the
their unpopularity on end to the Senate, which they be the reason it is now losing by promising not to be Bernie Bronx, it was Mosholu Parkway, where Ralph Lauren (né
everything but their claim gives too much repre- court cases): a failed progres- Sanders. They might have Lifshitz) and Calvin Klein came of age and dazzled their
sentation to red states. sive agenda. noted that Mr. Biden (barely) contemporaries with their sense of style. For Herb Cohen,
own failures. All this is designed to whip Anyone remember the talk won the presidency primarily it was Bensonhurst, where his pals called each other Inky,
up anger, to mobilize a lack- of the “permanent Democratic by not being Mr. Trump, and Zeke the Creek, Moppo,
luster Democratic base in the majority”? Had that material- on a narrow promise to do Who Ha, Iron Lung, Gutter
Or any internal debate about runup to the fall election. The ized, Democrats wouldn’t be something about Covid. They Rat and more. They marveled
how the party might craft an party sees its chance to re-en- facing draft opinions like the instead took his victory as li- at Sandy’s jump shot. Zeke
agenda that resonates with gage activist groups that are one of this week. Yet in the cense to impose a Sanders-like the Creek was actually named
the public, so that it can demoralized over President past three decades, the Demo- agenda that now draws a Larry Zeiger, who eventually
maintain its hold on power Biden’s failure to pass a cratic heyday consists of just straight line to the current molted into Larry King, the
.
and begin the process of re- sweeping agenda. It’s also a a few short years, from economic mess and Demo- radio and cable TV talk-show
shaping the court. chance to move discussion 2006-09. That was the brief cratic problems this fall. headliner. Sandy? You can
ly
Instead, Democrats pro- away from the ugly topics that moment the party worked Even if Democrats were find his plaque—Koufax—in
posed to burn every Washing- are otherwise dominating the hard to attune itself to the na- willing to acknowledge these the Baseball Hall of Fame.
ton institution down. Party political debate: inflation, fall- tional mood. Nancy Pelosi in failings, they may feel it is As his son tells it, his dad’s
leaders and activists openly
attempted to intimidate the
justices, hoping to change the
outcome. Democrats renewed
ing real wages, gasoline
prices, crime, the border, criti-
cal race theory.
Will it work? No question
on
2006 proposed a modest
agenda, with proposals like
college tuition, clean energy,
and stem-cell research. She
now too late to do anything.
Mr. Biden can’t fix inflation
and other big problems by No-
vember, so the party figures it
career was in its way even
more dazzling than Koufax’s.
He dropped out of NYU during
the Korean War and enlisted—
calls to kill the filibuster, so that abortion will now take a recruited centrist candidates, may as well campaign against to avoid being sent to the fight-
us ,
that they can impose with 51 premier spot in races for the and their victories reclaimed the high court. But sooner or ing. Instead, he wound up at a base close to Communist
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votes a new abortion law and governorships and legislatures the House for Democrats for later, Democrats are going to East Germany—where his hard duty was coaching top
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al a
to expand the court’s size and that could soon be recrafting the first time since 1994. Ba- need to perform that autopsy. Army basketball teams in European tournaments. He
pack it with liberal jurists. state abortion laws. But it’s a rack Obama built on this in Or risk longer-term decline. showed his nascent smarts by talking the brass out of
Progressives are even cam- much bigger question whether 2008, with a promise to unite Write to [email protected]. mistakenly charging one of his buddies with treason.
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Heaven,” a the broader culture get Mor- considering how fervently he attacks whenever something niques. Then he went out on his own, crisscrossing the
Austin Hulu series mons wrong so often and so defends the LGBT community like “Under the Banner of country lecturing and running seminars for top companies
based on a easily? Just listen to the from stereotypical portrayals. Heaven” comes out, Mitt Rom- like Apple and Ford, giving newspaper, radio and TV inter-
real-life dou- show’s creator, Dustin Lance Yet Mr. Black says he sees ney is trending on Twitter, or views. He became so celebrated that he met with president-
ble murder committed in Black. Asked about the criti- himself as an ally of the LDS the musical “The Book of Mor- elect Ronald Reagan to advise him on the Iran hostage
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Utah, has been getting plenty cism, he accused his detrac- faith and claims he created mon” comes to town. I’m not crisis—even predicting nearly to the minute when the
of good press since its debut tors of either not watching the the new show, based on jour- surprised when people admit hostages would be released. He also schmoozed with the
last week. But members of the series or simply defending nalist Jon Krakauer’s 2003 to me that, as a “normal” per- first George Bush, who put him on the team negotiating the
Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- murderous extremists. nonfiction book of the same son, I’m not what they ex- START nuclear-arms treaty, and with Bill Clinton. In 1980,
ter-day Saints aren’t im- He later expanded on this pected given my religious be- after 18 rejection slips, he published “You Can Negotiate
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pressed. Rather than “foster a uncharitable reading in sev- liefs. LDS history shows how Anything: How to Get What You Want,” which went
better understanding of my eral interviews, describing The creator of a new quickly this insensitive rheto- through 19 printings.
faith tradition,” one LDS jour- Mormons as “having them- ric can escalate. Rich Cohen writes lovingly of his father’s “love of bull—.”
nalist recently lamented, the selves to blame” for his por- Hulu series is clear Many Latter-day Saints But the accumulated wit and wisdom of Herb Cohen
production is “yet one more trayal of the faith. He has also on his disdain for the spent much of the first three scattered through the book reveals instead a keen grasp
mile marker in a decadeslong said the church “encourages decades of the church’s exis- of human frailty and a gift for aphorism no less valid for
trail of angst.” members not to dig into” its faith and its followers. tence being forced from their its glibness.
Early on, the show takes a own history and suggested homes and exiled from state “Money talks, but it doesn’t tell the truth,” he liked to
dark view of the faith. And it that LDS women “can’t ask the after state. In 1838 the gover- say. “Time heals all wounds, right up to the moment it
depicts Mormons as bizarre, leadership of the church a name, without personal preju- nor of Missouri signed an ex- kills you.” “We see things not as they are but as we are.”
one-dimensional puppets— question.” Both are categori- dice. He adds that he has dis- ecutive order stating that “The fish doesn’t know it’s in the water.” “At a certain age,
conversing in dialogue as for- cally false, and the latter espe- tinguished between main- “Mormons must be treated as Italians and Jews become indistinguishable.” “Most people
eign to members of the faith cially odd given many church stream and fundamentalist enemies and must be extermi- are schmucks and will obey any type of authority.”
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as to outsiders. Ominous leaders are women. followers of the faith, but nated or driven from the
tones overshadow even some- This is the manifestation of “many of the things they state.” An unfriendly newspa-
thing as innocent as a father the common but misguided share in common are misogy- per editor derided Mormon- The prolific Rich Cohen profiles his father,
presenting his young daugh- idea that the LDS community nistic, dangerous and poten- ism in 1844 with such fervor a streetwise kid from Brooklyn who built a
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ter with a Choose the Right should simply turn the other tially deadly.” that he, along with others,
ring, the Mormon equivalent cheek whenever our beliefs Imagine the uproar if a ma- stirred up a mob to murder unique career as the ‘world’s greatest negotiator.’
of a What Would Jesus Do? are maligned or misrepre- jor filmmaker warned that al Joseph Smith, the founder of
bracelet. sented. And it’s not a new idea Qaeda and mainstream Mus- the faith, and his brother Hy-
An LDS historian who was for Mr. Black, who worked on lims were distinct but both rum. Other church members— His credo in business was “care, but not that much.” He
invited to the premiere noted the HBO show “Big Love” deadly and misogynistic. Of including innocent women and counseled that playing dumb was often the best strategy,
afterward that “none of the when it depicted a sacred LDS course it would never happen, children—often met a similar especially when dealing with an overbearing opponent.
Mormon scholars I was sitting ceremony against the church’s and therein lies the problem. fate. “The most powerful words in business,” he taught, “are ‘I
with—all of whom know full expressed wishes. Though the Mr. Black can lump 16 million Latter-day Saints of all peo- don’t understand. Help me.’ ” He told home buyers seeking
well how to apply an open, network later apologized, Mr. LDS believers into the same ple don’t deserve to be called a quick closing never to offer the asking price in cash in
critical gaze to our own cul- Black repeats a similar offense “dangerous” category as two “dangerous” by Mr. Black or their first bid—because the seller will feel that he set his
ture and tradition—recognized in his new series. murderous offshoot extremists anyone else. “Dangerous” is price too low and jack it up. And in a negotiation, “Always
ourselves or our people in the Mr. Black’s disdain for this from the 1980s solely because painting millions of people be willing to walk away—from the car, from the house,
show.” I have yet to meet a particular faith runs deep. so many in the media and en- with broad strokes or allowing from the property.”
fellow member of the LDS Since spending some of his tertainment businesses see bigotry to fester through art. As Herb Cohen might say, the trick to being a know-it-
church, or even a friend, who early years as a member of Mormons as “fair game.” “Dangerous” is standing idly all is knowing that you don’t know it all. Inevitably, he
sees the show’s portrayal of us the LDS church, the filmmaker Am I being oversensitive? by, saying nothing. screwed up by not following his own precepts. After his
as believable. The show seem- rarely misses an opportunity Perhaps. But I’ve personally negotiating book was published, two academics accused
ingly leans into every mis- to make a dig against Mor- felt the damage done by these Mr. Austin is a journalist him of plagiarism and sued for huge damages. His son and
guided stereotype and trope mons—whether in a news in- portrayals. As a “public Mor- based in Utah. others counseled him to treat the suit as a nuisance, settle
with the plaintiffs and get on with his life. But the crack
negotiator cared too much and the case went to trial. In
My Mother’s Kitchen Cooked Up Confidence the end, a witness was found with copies of Herb Cohen’s
old lecture notes, establishing that his material was indeed
original. He prevailed, but paid in stress and spent more
By Faith Bottum precision, her intuition seems following the sewing-machine toddler, she’s aimed to make defending the case than he had earned from the book.
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aggravatingly breezy and instructions. Pin the thin ma- me independent, assured and Years later, after surviving a medical crisis, he had an affair
y mother taught me to calm. She just knows when nila paper on to the cloth, as competent—the conditions, with a hustling younger woman who shook him down and
cook—with a patience food is done. While I would the pattern’s instructions say. she thought, of happiness. And then told all to his wife. He had to tearfully confess to his
that, as I look back stand watching the kitchen And there you are. only now do I see how won- three children and apologize. When Rich balked at graduate
now, seems nearly saintly. clock, she’d call out casually What my mother does derful that training was, and school, he surreptitiously applied him to 26 programs (all
Maybe because of the let’s- seems more instinctual. She how much more I have to but one of which rejected him).
get-this-done mindset that led showed me how to do things grasp of what she taught me There’s much more compelling family drama in the
me to major in engineering, I She taught me to on the fly, looking at a pile of when I was young. book, especially the death of Rich Cohen’s mother, told so
have always valued efficiency. loosen up and trust scraps and seeing how to But that’s the condition of movingly that many will read the passage in tears. But it’s
In cooking that means per- combine them into something all of us, isn’t it? The thing essentially the saga of a remarkable man who’s fond of
fectly chopped vegetables in my intuition. beautiful, quirky and fun. She we’re supposed to remember saying “The meaning of life . . . is more life” and knows
their respective bowls. Color- taught me how to sew quickly on Mother’s Day? The lessons what he’s talking about.
coordinated knives for differ- and smartly, taking in a waist we learn in school often have
ent meats. The spices ar- from the living room that the or hemming a pant leg with finite application. We learn a Mr. Kosner is the former editor of Newsweek, New York,
ranged in proper order before bread was ready. And she was an easy confidence. She particular fact or technique. Esquire and the New York Daily News.
cooking begins. A precise always right. How is an engi- taught me that sewing, like But the lessons we can learn
scale for weighing ingredients neer supposed to learn that cooking and much else worth from our mothers are lifelong
just as the recipe says. skill? doing in life, is more art than skills and the deep truths that Coming in BOOKS this weekend
It turns out that’s not how My mother taught me to science. get richer and more important Joseph Epstein on late life and last works • The roots
good cooking works. My sew as well. In the abstract, Children learn their lessons as the years go by. of war • Anna Wintour: Always in Vogue • Motherhood
mother isn’t exactly carefree sewing is a better fit for peo- imperfectly, and I’m still trying and creativity • The altruistic urge • The search for the
in the kitchen, but compared ple with an engineering slant to apply all that my mother Ms. Bottum is the Journal’s source of the Nile • Sam Sacks on fiction • & much more
with my own anxiety about of mind. Thread the bobbin, has taught me. Since I was a Joseph Rago Memorial Fellow.
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OPINION
REVIEW & OUTLOOK LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Did Supreme Nominees Lie to Congress? The Hostile Ideological Takeover of Medicine
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ne media narrative congealing after this discussion about the academic concept of “super The recent letters by leaders of cating medical students about “envi-
week’s Supreme Court leak is that Presi- precedent,” essentially whether a matter is so Brigham and Women’s Hospital (May ronmental, social and economic fac-
3) and the Association of American tors that affect a patient’s health.” It
dent Trump’s nominees lied to Congress settled no one challenges it. “I’m answering a lot
Medical Colleges (April 29) leave out is indoctrination.
by claiming they wouldn’t of questions about Roe,” she key details. Responding to my op-ed These letters prove that a radical,
overturn the abortion prece- The Justices did not said, “which I think indicates on how antiracist ideology is corrupt- divisive and discriminatory ideology
dent of Roe v. Wade. So allow promise to uphold that Roe doesn’t fall into that ing healthcare (“Keep Politics Out of has captured the commanding
us to check the tape—and ex- category.” the Doctor’s Office,” April 19), their heights of the medical profession. But
plain why respecting past de- abortion precedents. She declined to pre-commit denials show how deep the rot goes. Americans don’t want this in health-
cisions doesn’t bind the Court to ruling one way or another Brigham and Women’s Sunil Eap- care anymore than they do in public
to stand by serious constitu- on abortion, but she did say in pen and Mallika Mendu write, “We safety or education, and physicians
tional errors. deciding whether to overrule any precedent, are not moving toward preferential will suffer if they are force-fed such
Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck she’d apply the legal framework of stare decisis care for any group.” Yet last year extremism. Let’s call this what it is:
Schumer accused “several” of the “conservative (“to stand by things decided”). their hospital announced a pilot ini- dangerous and un-American.
tiative cast in exactly those terms: a STANLEY GOLDFARB, M.D.
Justices” of having “lied to the U.S. Senate, As it happens, this is what Justice Alito’s
“preferential admission option for Chairman, Do No Harm
ripped up the Constitution and defiled both draft opinion does. He explains at length why Black and Latinx heart failure pa- Bryn Mawr, Pa.
precedent and the Supreme Court’s reputation,” stare decisis is essential, for instance, in re- tients.” It’s a sign of things to come.
among other modest claims in a statement after straining judicial hubris. But the Court has long Race-based care is a fundamental de- I assume the medical colleges’ goal
Politico published a draft opinion written by recognized in other cases it is “not an inexorable mand of the activist set. of recruiting in “a holistic fashion”
Justice Samuel Alito. The insinuation is that command” and is “at its weakest when we inter- As for the AAMC, David Skorton means it wants every medical-school
Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and pret the Constitution.” and Henri Ford should have discussed class to have a certain proportion of
Amy Coney Barrett promised Congress they In other words, some mistakes are so egre- their organization’s forthcoming com- black and Latino students, even if that
wouldn’t touch Roe. gious they require correction. A case in point is petencies on diversity, equity and in- means denying admission to more
The truth is available to anyone willing to call the “separate but equal” doctrine allowed in clusion. The latest version calls for qualified applicants. But the public
up the C-Span archives. Justice Gorsuch said in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that was finally over- physicians to be trained in identifying expects something different. The
“a patient’s multiple identities and AAMC should protect the public by
his 2017 confirmation hearings that Roe “is a turned in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. how each identity may present varied assuring that the very best applicants
precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court. It was reaf- It took 58 years, but the constitutional principles and multiple forms of oppression or enter the medical profession. I don’t
firmed in Casey in 1992 and in several other that animated Justice John Marshall Harlan’s privilege.” It wants medical educators care how culturally responsive my
cases. So a good judge will consider it as prece- Plessy dissent were finally vindicated. The to be “role models” who teach “how physician is and I have no interest in
dent of the U.S. Supreme Court worthy as treat- echoes of Plessy resonate in Roe. systems of power, privilege, and op- his politics, but I care that he knows
ment of precedent like any other.” In another ex- Overruling precedent, Justice Alito writes, is pression” inform healthcare. Another how to diagnose and treat my illness.
change, Justice Gorsuch said he would have “a serious matter.” But “Roe was on a collision section focuses on “colonization” and DWIGHT OXLEY, M.D.
“walked out the door” if President Trump had course with the Constitution from the day it was “white supremacy.” This is not edu- Wichita, Kan.
asked him to commit to overturning Roe. That’s decided, and Casey perpetuated its errors, and
“not what judges do.” the errors do not concern some arcane corner
Justice Kavanaugh during the 2018 spectacle of the law of little importance to the American
that passed as his confirmation hearings noted people.” When the Lord’s Prayer Left the Public School
that Roe had been “reaffirmed many times.” He Americans may disagree with this analysis,
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D.G. Hart’s review of Mark A. Noll’s to announce to the class that we
also declined to prejudge cases. “You have an open and many understandably dread the political book “America’s Book: The Rise and would no longer be able to say the
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mind. You get the briefs and arguments. And some brawl over abortion that would follow. But if Decline of a Bible Civilization, Lord’s Prayer. Instead, we would have
arguments are better than others. Precedent is some version of Justice Alito’s opinion is ad- 1794-1911” (Bookshelf, April 27) re- a moment of silence during which, if
critically important. It is the foundation of our opted, the Justices who sign onto it will have minds me of a related religious prac- they wished, pupils could say their
system. But you listen to all arguments.” on
done what they promised Congress: Decide cases
Justice Barrett’s 2020 hearings featured a on the legal and constitutional merits.
tice prevalent in America’s public
schools from the early to mid-20th
century. In the early 1960s, as a
sixth-grade public-school teacher, I
own private prayers. After several
days of following this new practice, a
young boy quietly came to my desk
and asked if I could lengthen the mo-
A Market Reality Check always began my class with the ment of silence. When I asked him
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ell, so much for optimistic assur- make sense of a policy environment that no one
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singing of a patriotic song. This daily I never forgot the sincerity of this
ances about inflation, interest rates has seen in four decades. routine proceeded without a protest child, and I think it says a lot about
and recession. Federal Reserve The market decline does not mean the Fed is from any person or group. the influence of prayer in the public
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Chairman Jerome Powell’s wrong to tighten. In our view Then, one day in 1962, after the schools back in the day.
relatively sunny take on all Prices are volatile as it has no choice if it wants to U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ROSEMARY ROBERTS
three on Wednesday, after the investors try to judge the avoid a return to the long-term banned prayer in public schools, I had Waterbury, Conn.
latest Federal Open Market inflation woes of the 1970s.
Committee meeting, had risks of tighter money. But the economic risks are
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pleased investors. But they significant, notwithstanding Equipment Leasing and ‘Hell or High Water’
gave up all the market gains Mr. Powell’s assurances on
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5% in a single day. Shares could bounce back on excesses were so extreme in 2020 and 2021. The their customers payment deferrals in businesses that have trouble getting
Friday, but the sharp swing in prices over the surprise will be if there are no nasty financial 2020, including extensions, modifica- traditional bank loans to more estab-
last two days shows how uncertain investors are surprises—meaning credit failures—this year tions or restructuring (“You Lease, lished companies looking to invest
about the economy’s prospects as the Fed finally and next. You Owe, ‘Hell or High Water,’” Page working capital in other areas.
tightens monetary policy after years of essen- The best economic policy response would be One, April 15). There’s a reason nearly 8 in 10 U.S.
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press to Community Court include residential i i i true that the U.S. has a huge and
valuable air base in Qatar, but plac-
trespassing, possession of tools for burglary or As Ms. Davison seeks to renegotiate the 2019
ing Qatar in the category of reliable
auto theft, and property destruction. agreement, she sits across the table from Ms. allies such as Australia, Japan and
The 2019 agreement includes no eligibility Khandelwal and Judge Damon Shadid, a pro- Israel goes much too far.
restrictions, so those with serious criminal his- gressive who oversees the Seattle Community All freedom lovers prefer sources
tories qualify. Seattle criminals get four tries Court. On April 27, Ms. Davison told the Seattle of energy other than Iran and Russia,
in the Community Court before they flunk out. Municipal Court that negotiations had reached and Qatar may be useful in that re-
Each can encompass multiple charges. Repeat an impasse. Is it any wonder? gard, but alienating Saudi Arabia and
offenders see the lack of consequences as an in- Ms. Davison has now asked the Seattle Mu- others in the process makes it less
vitation to commit more crimes. nicipal Court to intervene. The court said in a than a zero-sum game.
Since 2017 Mr. Piccone has been charged in statement that it was considering her proposal SAMUEL M. SALAMON
Cleveland
some 60 criminal cases across Washington, and and would work “to identify how to move for-
police have referred him for prosecution to the ward together and create a prioritized plan for
Letters intended for publication should
Seattle city attorney 46 times, Ms. Davison’s of- people whose needs and issues are not being be emailed to [email protected]. Please
fice says. Twenty-two of his most recent cases addressed, and have not been addressed histor- include your city, state and telephone
were referred to the Seattle Community Court, ically, by our criminal justice system.” number. All letters are subject to
where he was turned loose, the city attorney’s Here’s hoping the court means the victims editing, and unpublished letters cannot “We’ve almost decided on
be acknowledged.
office says. of crime, not the criminals. a logo for the baby.”
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saying goes, we got canceled. sation with Senate Majority Leader
remarkable Jewish renais- Over the years, Tikvah has hosted Chuck Schumer and Linda Thomas-
sance is under way in Flor- numerous conferences at the mu- Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to
ida. Jewish schools and seum, always including prominent the United Nations, who recently de-
synagogues are rapidly ex- Jewish, Israeli and American thinkers scribed America as a society plagued
panding. Jews from the and leaders of various political and by white supremacy and lauded
Northeast and Midwest, as well as religious points of view. We were America’s re-entry into the anti-Is-
Latin America and Israel, are migrat- working closely with the museum on rael Human Rights Commission.
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would be interesting to invite Gov. tion progressive orthodoxy? In sivity, a Jewish museum sent us a rael a prominent platform at a Jew-
Ron DeSantis to discuss how the many cases, the explanation is sheer clear message: Some people are to be ish institution. Yet the event went on Mr. Abrams is chairman and Mr.
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“Florida model” has contributed to cowardice. A lot of people dislike excluded. In the name of fighting as planned. Cohen is CEO of Tikvah. They are co-
the growth and vitality of Jewish life Mr. DeSantis, and the museum staff hate, the museum decided that the The museum has hosted other pol- chairmen of the Jewish Leadership
in his state. The event was to be must have asked: What if there are millions of Floridians who support iticians, including then-Gov. Andrew Conference.
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With Friends Like Putin, Xi May Lose Europe
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Tokyo last week? nomic ties with Mr. Putin’s Russia Mr. Xi would not continue the re- celerate heavy-weapons deliveries the U.S. and Africa, and reassesses
The visit will be didn’t dissuade the autocrat from form-and-market-opening path of to Kyiv. Somewhat surprisingly, dependence on other countries,” the
clanging alarm his imperialism. And now that Wan- his predecessors. But of late the China got a paragraph of its own, in party elders write, and no prize for
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bells in Beijing as del has failed, the closely entwined drumbeat of German businesses which legislators demanded Mr. guessing which “other countries”
POLITICAL China anxiously business relationships created by all rethinking China has grown more Scholz threaten to impose sanctions they have in mind.
ECONOMICS tracks the fallout that Handel are proving devilishly insistent. on Beijing if China obstructs West- The broader public debate is ac-
from Vladimir Pu- hard to disentangle. ern sanctions on Russia or supplies celerating. “Could Germany afford
By Joseph C.
tin’s invasion of In this climate, thoughts have Russia with weapons. The resolu- to bid the China market farewell?”
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Ukraine. quickly turned to China, long Ger- China should be worried tion was nonbinding, but Mr. Scholz the business-minded newspaper
The newish many’s other object of change said he interprets it as a mandate. Frankfurter Allgemeine asked in
that the war in Ukraine
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German chancellor’s trip to Japan through trade. Beijing has helped Foreign Minister Annalena Baer- March. The answer, with a few cave-
to discuss economic and strategic sharpen this negative focus, perhaps has Germany rethinking its bock in March inaugurated a for- ats, was yes. This is part of a rap-
cooperation is a sign of a major most notably with Xi Jinping’s eign-policy review. China featured idly expanding genre in which com-
change under way in Berlin. The early-February pledge of “no limits” conciliatory foreign policy. prominently in her speech although mentators, reporters and assorted
clue is the destination Mr. Scholz friendship with Mr. Putin. Europe- not always by name: Europe must others pick over various aspects of
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decessor, Angela Merkel, visited willingness or inability to broker a A survey by the Munich-based Ifo 21st century can also consist in au- tionship, whether the auto industry
China the way Chicagoans vote— peace in Ukraine. Institute think tank conducted in thoritarian states investing billions or imports of raw materials or any
early and often. Her first jaunt to The autocratic invasion of February found that 45% of German of euros in European motorways, of a variety of other questions,
Beijing came six months after she Ukraine also raises worries about an manufacturers said they planned to roads, power grids and ports,” she searching for ways Germany can im-
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took office, and she visited China autocratic invasion of Taiwan, a reduce imports from China, and 55% warned in a barely veiled shot at prove its economic security.
twice as often as Japan during her prospect Europe previously dis- of retailers. “Foreign companies are Beijing. Whether Germany’s new skepti-
16 years in office. That Mr. Scholz counted. And Mr. Xi’s economy-kill- hitting the pause button,” Joerg A special mention here goes to cism of China sticks will be a major
shows signs of bucking this trend is ing zero-Covid policies undermine Wuttke of the EU Chamber of Com- Ms. Merkel’s center-right Christian political, economic and strategic
significant. the business case for foreign inves- merce in China said in a recent in- Democratic party, now in the opposi- question of the next decade. A likely
It’s more fallout from the Ukraine tors. Thanks to foolish policy errors terview, regarding business nerves tion, which is quickly and not-so-dis- outcome is not a total divorce, but
war. Germany’s shock at Vladimir in Beijing, the country will miss this about potential parallels between creetly running away from her Wan- rather the adoption in Berlin of a
Putin’s invasion is both sincere and year’s annual economic-growth tar- Ukraine and Taiwan. The comment del durch Handel legacy. In a less enthusiastic, more hard-nosed
wrenching. The economic element is get by a wide margin. hit a particular nerve in his native national-security outline released attitude toward China. That will still
twofold. The old maxim of Wandel The result is a new German skep- Germany. Monday, the CDU leadership calls for be a far cry from what Mr. Xi proba-
durch Handel—change through ticism of China that’s playing itself Within the political and policy a “revision and reassessment” of bly thought he’d get when he signed
trade—which was almost by default out along three dimensions. class, too, a China rethink is under Germany’s economic approach. “Ger- his friendship pact with Mr. Putin
Ms. Merkel’s only foreign-policy Businesses are growing anxious. way. Lawmakers in the national many needs a new globalization three months ago.
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By Mikhail Khodorkovsky decision to cut off gas to Poland democracies also blundered by be- Of course, there will be costs in- above pre-invasion levels but in re-
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and Bulgaria. But they aren’t suffi- lieving that the authoritarian re- volved as countries wean them- turn there will be security and jobs.
had a head start in understand- cient reason to weaken the finan- gimes they rely on for energy selves off dictators’ gas and oil. But American industrialists in the 20th
ing the need to stand up to cial blockade against the Kremlin. would never exploit that depen- the world of hydrocarbons is gradu- century were able to provide their
Vladimir Putin. Russian special Democracies will never achieve dency. Countries whose politicians ally coming to an end. Oil and gas workers with decent housing. Imag-
forces stormed my plane in Novosi- long-term economic stability if owe their power to the well-being will continue to exist in our lives for ine the social benefits, such as
birsk, Siberia, in 2003, some six they are susceptible to energy of voters forgot that their supplier decades, just as coal and horses still health insurance, training and pen-
months after I publicly told Mr. Pu- blackmail from dictatorships. has no regard for human lives. sions, that entrepreneurs could of-
tin that his government’s corruption About half of Russia’s state reve- For years, businesses and politi- fer today.
was hindering Russia’s development. nues come from oil and gas sales ac- cians in the U.S. and many Western The war is the impetus to Ukraine needs our help to secure
I was charged with stealing the oil cording to 2021 reports by the European countries indulged dicta- victory. In Mr. Putin’s mind, he is at
my company produced and not pay- country’s Ministry of Finance. That tors, rationalizing that they pro- accelerate the move away war not only with Ukraine, but also
ing corporate taxes on the suppos- money is being used to murder and vided political and economic sta- from dependence on the U.S. and the North Atlantic
edly stolen oil. I spent 10 years in terrorize people in Ukraine and pro- bility. With Mr. Putin on the Treaty Organization. He must be de-
prison. duce weapons that threaten the en- rampage in Ukraine, however, this dictators’ gas and oil. feated there lest he need to be de-
Even after the invasion of tire West. The Kremlin has long de- isn’t what stability looks like and feated on NATO territory in due
Ukraine, some Western entrepre- ployed energy as a weapon of never will be. course. Defeat for Ukraine would
neurs and politicians publicly criti- political coercion and control. It It is ludicrous that Germany, the do, but nobody should ever again be prolong the Putin regime, increasing
cize the sanctions against the Putin now uses it as a military tactic. most industrialized European coun- able to use force and be shielded the risks for the world.
regime. The West, they say, can’t Mr. Putin’s war has exposed try, has proved incapable of swiftly from retaliation by threatening to But the job doesn’t end with a
meet its energy needs without Rus- Western countries’ energy vulnera- ramping up weapons production. To cut off the energy supply. Ukrainian victory. It includes re-
sia, and refusing to buy Russian hy- bility, which is exacerbated by Eu- meet its long-term economic and Ukraine is the impetus to accel- building Ukraine—a task worthy of
drocarbons only increases their rope’s slow development of the liq- strategic security needs, the West erate the move away from fossil fu- revived European and American in-
price, benefiting Mr. Putin. uefied natural gas market and must once again become self-suffi- els. This will require significant in- dustries. Russia also will need a re-
Those fears are rational, as some countries’ initiatives to cient in producing key industrial vestment and time, perhaps 10 vival, and we must start thinking of
demonstrated by Russia’s recent phase out nuclear power. Western and military goods. years. Electricity prices could rise what comes after Mr. Putin. Russian
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Move brings senior officials and lawmakers follow- nesses to the commonwealth, recent years. Boeing in 2017 said he had been lobbying Boe-
ing a tumultuous three years according to a state official. said it would move its defense ing’s senior leadership for over
executives closer to for the company. While details of Boeing’s agree- unit’s headquarters to Arling- a year to move its headquarters 40 2022
decision makers in Details of the move haven’t ment with the state aren’t final, ton from St. Louis to be nearer to Virginia. He said the state’s $3.28B
been finalized. They are ex- they aren’t expected to involve to lawmakers and Pentagon diverse pipeline of engineering 30
U.S. government pected to be announced as soon significant financial entice- procurement officials, with talent has grown with major
as next week, according to ments but may include work- government-affairs and other companies moving to Virginia
BY ANDREW TANGEL some of these people. force-related incentives, the of- staff also working from the of- and noted Boeing already has 20
AND DOUG CAMERON Northern Virginia is already ficial said. fice complex opened in 2014. an outsize presence in Wash-
home to many of the largest The aerospace company also Boeing was attracted to ington. “This is not like a com- 10
Boeing Co. said it planned to U.S. military contractors, and said Thursday that it would es- northern Virginia in large part pany that needs to move to the
move its global headquarters to the local property and labor tablish a research and technol- because of its engineering tal- region to raise its visibility,” 0
Arlington, Va., from Chicago, a market has been fueled further ogy hub in northern Virginia ent pool as well as the proxim- Sen. Warner said
2010 ’12 ’14 ’16 ’18 ’20 ’22
shift that would bring the aero- by Amazon.com Inc.’s decision that would focus on areas in- ity to its biggest customer—the Boeing’s move closer to
space giant’s leadership closer to locate one of its secondary cluding cybersecurity, autono- U.S. government—and various Washington, D.C., would follow Source: Dealogic
to top federal officials after a headquarters there. mous operations and systems suppliers and business groups years of sometimes strained re-
challenging period.
The announcement comes as
the future of many of Boeing’s
jetliner and military programs
Boeing has for months been
in talks with the office of Vir-
ginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who
has been working to woo the
engineering.
Many of Boeing’s senior ex-
ecutives have increasingly been
working out of its Washington,
with presences in the nation’s
capital, according to a person
familiar with the company’s
discussions.
lations with various federal
agencies and elected officials.
The Federal Aviation Admin-
istration, based in Washington,
Bausch
lies with regulators, Pentagon plane maker and other busi- D.C., area offices or remotely in Sen. Mark Warner (D., Va.) Please turn to page B2
Prices
Online Ad Titans Estimated global ad spending
by category*
2021
$837B
Advertising revenue,
change from a year
earlier
IPO at
Fall Off Their $800 billion
46% Meta
Low End
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Pandemic Highs Of Target
ly
700
BY CORRIE DRIEBUSCH
6%
BY SUZANNE VRANICA
world’s largest technology year. Facebook’s overall reve- first big company in months to
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pandemic is decelerating. ever posted since going public 500 lent stock market.
A round of tech earnings in 2012. Bausch Health Cos., the
last week made it clear that “Digital is holding on to its parent company, raised $630
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the continued rise of TikTok growth during the pandemic company, a spinoff of Bausch
and Apple Inc.’s recent privacy further cemented their domi- Health Cos., is being watched
changes. nance of the advertising mar- closely as a bellwether for the
Amazon
“We have not seen a collec- ket. The year 2020 marked the 76% IPO market, which has been
tive set of headwinds for ad- first time Google, Facebook virtually shut down since
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vertisers like this since the and Amazon collected the ma- stocks started falling earlier
early 1980s,” said Michael Na- jority of all ad spending in the this year.
thanson, an analyst at Moffett- U.S. Representatives for TV and video It is the first big initial pub-
Nathanson. Google, Meta and Amazon had lic offering since private-eq-
The three largest digital-ad- no comment. 100 uity firm TPG Inc. went public
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vertising players in the U.S.— In the early days of the Outdoor 25% in mid-January.
Google parent Alphabet Inc., pandemic, consumers spent After a record year in 2021,
Facebook parent Meta Plat- more time on computer Newspapers/magazines traditional IPOs have raised
forms Inc. and Amazon.com screens and did more shop- less than $3.3 billion in 2022,
Inc.—last week said ad reve- ping online, but their behav- 0 Audio and cinema the slowest start since 2016,
nue in the first three months iors are returning to more 2013 ’14 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 1Q 2021 1Q ’22 according to Dealogic.
of 2022 grew by 22%, 6.1% and Please turn to page B4 *Excludes political ad spending Sources: GroupM (ad spending); the companies (ad revenue) Please turn to page B5
BY PHRED DVORAK
AND KATHERINE BLUNT
effectively halted most solar- Shares of companies paying of what market convention
panel imports, according to big dividends to investors says happens when interest
utilities and industry groups, have trounced practically ev- rates rise. Usually, investors
delaying solar projects all over erything else this year. say, dividend-paying stocks do
the country. They took a hit Thursday as poorly in a rising-rate environ-
Utility chief executives and the broader market tumbled ment because rates typically
politicians including California but have held on to their lead go up when the economy is
Gov. Gavin Newsom have pro- for 2022. The iShares Core growing. In boom times, inves-
tested, warning that the inves- High Dividend exchange- tors tend to forgo the steady
tigation could set back U.S. ef- traded fund, which tracks 75 cash payments of bondlike
forts to transition to cleaner such stocks, is up 3.9% this stocks in favor of companies
energy sources to combat cli- Mamun Rashid says he is trying to stop unfair trade practices that have hurt U.S. manufacturers. year. That puts the fund far that have the potential to de-
mate change. A U.S. solar ahead of the S&P 500, which is liver bigger profits later.
trade group estimates the tur- coal-fired power plants that and whether it even produces factory showed roughly 30 down 13% in 2022. This time, a different dy-
moil could cost the industry are slated for retirement run- panels. workers making panels. The fund includes stocks namic is at play. Interest rates
billions of dollars. ning longer than expected. Auxin CEO Mamun Rashid As a result of the dispute, like Exxon Mobil Corp., which have risen swiftly, not because
On Wednesday, Indiana- The disruption has fueled said that the company is fund- he said, his employees have has a dividend yield of 3.9%; investors are betting on an
based utility NiSource Inc. speculation in the industry ing the petition itself, seeking been hassled, his computer Johnson & Johnson, which Please turn to page B11
said delays of as long as 18 about what is motivating to stop unfair trade practices servers have been hacked and
months in solar projects Auxin, where it is getting its that have hurt American man- strange cars have been circling
meant it would have to keep funding for its regulatory fight ufacturers. A recent tour of his Please turn to page B2
INSIDE
Peloton Looks to Sell Sizable Minority Stake
JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES
BY CARA LOMBARDO take a stake of around 15% to giant such as Amazon.com started to fill up again.
AND DANA CIMILLUCA 20%, according to people fa- Inc., which is among the suit- Peloton’s value has fallen
miliar with the matter. Discus- ors that have explored a full from a high of around $50 bil-
Peloton Interactive Inc. is sions are at an early stage and purchase of Peloton, The Wall lion early last year to around
exploring a sale of a sizable there are no guarantees the Street Journal has reported. $5.6 billion this week. The
minority stake to shore up its New York-based company will Peloton enjoyed high times shares lost around 9% Thurs-
business as the once-hot bike find a taker or agree to a deal. as a pandemic darling, with day amid a broader market AVIATION BUSINESS NEWS
maker’s stock continues to New capital could bolster homebound customers order- rout. The FAA and airlines Anheuser-Busch InBev
sink. Peloton as it attempts a major ing its exercise equipment and The company in early Feb-
The fitness company is tar- turnaround. It could also serve streaming its virtual classes. ruary replaced its chief execu-
take steps toward posts strong sales,
geting potential investors in- as a vote of confidence if it Its valuation soared. The com- tive and unveiled plans to cut easing congestion over buoyed by the higher
cluding industry players and comes from an established pri- pany’s fortunes sagged as 2,800 jobs to boost its valua- Florida. B3 price of beer. B6
private-equity firms that could vate-equity firm or technology lockdowns eased and gyms Please turn to page B2
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A F Netflix.........................A2
Advanced Micro Devices Fidelity Investments..A4 News Corp...........A11,B6
.....................................A2 Ford Motor..................B2 Nvidia..........................A2
Alphabet..............A11,B1 Frontier........................B3 NXP Semiconductors
Amazon.com G .....................................A2
.................. A1,B1,B4,B12
General Motors...........B2 P
Anheuser-Busch InBev Peloton Interactive.....B1
Grubhub.......................B4
............................. B6,B12 Pernod Ricard............B12
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Management.............B6 Heineken ..................... B6 Procter & Gamble.......B6
Apple...........................A2 HSBC ......................... B12
AstraZeneca................A3 I R
Athene.........................B6 REA..............................B6
Auxin Solar.................B1 Intel.............................B5
Rémy Cointreau........B12
B J Rivian Automotive ..... B6
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Johnson & Johnson
Binance.com................A1 Shell.....................B3,B12
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BioNTech.....................A3 Shopify...........A2,B4,B12
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Fleisher, Michael ........ B5 Read, Mark..................B1 Zell, Jeff......................B5 Thursday, Stellantis CFO Rich- this transition.” General Motors Co. Chief higher costs of raw materials
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isn’t anticipating any big formed through the merger said she views the business as pressures.
structural changes as it boosts last year of Fiat Chrysler Au- stronger for keeping the two “I think we’re very confi-
In Turmoil evading U.S. tariffs by routing sponse to a question about neurial behavior within the Stellantis has committed to and other improvements since
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After that petition was re- dozen other automotive Executive Carlos Tavares, said a goal of EVs representing half said.
Continued from page B1 jected because its proponents brands, would consider a reor- in March that Ford’s move was of its U.S. sales annually by Stellantis shares fell 4.9%
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his factory. wouldn’t say who they were, ganization similar to the one a play to benefit investors, not 2030. It also comes as tradi- Thursday and are off 31% so
“Somebody called me a cou- Auxin, which had been a mem- revealed by Ford Motor Co. consumers, and could generate tional auto makers have tried far this year. Mr. Palmer said
ple days ago and said our ber of the group, decided to this year. internal strife among staff to capture the interest of in- the company’s financials alone
name is very toxic in the in- try again on its own and in the Ford plans to create two working for the company’s vestors, who are driving up merited more attention from
dustry,” said Mr. Rashid, a for- open, according to a person separate internal divisions: legacy gas-engine business. the valuations of auto startups investors.
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AND ALISON SIDER
airlines, small-plane operators
and aviation groups.
More frequent thunder-
on
trimmed schedules after prob-
lems in Florida’s airspace
jammed up flights, resulting in
staffing issues and other fac-
tors in the state. “As a result,
in mid-April, we made the deci-
adding staff at other facilities
in the state.
The agency also plans to
the matter.
Florida has been one of the
most popular travel destina-
The Federal Aviation Ad- storms in Florida, which has a disruptions that rippled sion to decrease some flying in share information more fre- tions throughout the pandemic,
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where bad weather and staff- some airlines have said they sonville, which controls the air- Geraghty said last month that playbook meant to help keep major airports there has re-
ing shortages have snarled are sharing airspace with more space over a swath of the state. the carrier experienced 115 planes moving safely when cently exceeded prepandemic
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travel in the state surges. Center, located along the At- impact on our operations given Florida in April, compared Airlines are willing to ticipants in its meetings ex-
The FAA said it would in- lantic in central Florida. our large concentration in Flor- with 22 hours in 2019. change how pilots handle cer- pected demand for Florida
crease air-traffic-control staff- Airlines including Spirit ida,” Spirit Chief Executive Ted The FAA said it would im- tain flights, such as flying at travel will continue to increase
ing and tweak flight practices Airlines Inc., Frontier Group Christie said in the airline’s mediately increase staff lev- lower altitudes to avoid diffi- past 2019 levels. Private-jet
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to address the strains, after Holdings Inc. and JetBlue Air- quarterly report Wednesday, els at the Jacksonville air- cult weather patterns, accord- flights to the state have also
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San Francisco-based Deliverr sent profits and sales soaring
Online Ad is expected to grow by 13% one of the contributors to the cope with the fallout from mo-
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was founded in 2017, joining a during the pandemic would this year, excluding political revenue slowdown. The war bile ad-tracking changes that
growing ecosystem of logistics slow as governments withdrew ad dollars, a significant slow- had “an outsize impact on Apple introduced last year
providers for e-commerce re-
tailers, and has been expanding
its quick-shipping services
stimulus and eased lockdowns.
Amazon last week reported
that sales growth in its flagship
on Giants See down from the 30% leap it
took last year, according to
WPP unit GroupM, one of the
YouTube ads relative to the
rest of Google,” Alphabet Chief
Financial Officer Ruth Porat
that make it harder for adver-
tisers to target consumers and
measure the efficacy of ads.
across major sales channels and
marketplaces.
In November, Deliverr picked
digital-sales operation had
stalled, and recent government
measures show the share of re-
Dropoff world’s largest ad buyers. Dig-
ital advertising has been
growing at a much faster pace
said during the company’s
earnings call last week. The
company said it saw a related
The change has hobbled the
digital-advertising model and
continues to be a pain point,
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ing from 8VC, Activant Capital, panies, Shopify has seen its fears wane. count for 67% of total global caused a reduction in ad de- larger swath of players. Last
GLP, Brookfield Technology share price crumble in recent “After the start of Covid, ad spending this year, GroupM mand, both within Europe and quarter, Meta warned that the
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Partners and Coatue Manage- months. Shares have lost more the acceleration of e-com- said. outside the region. changes would cost the com-
ment. That founding round than 70% of their value since merce led to outsized revenue “Once you are two-thirds of On Wednesday, Meta an- pany some $10 billion in 2022.
brought the company’s valua- January, trading as low as growth, but we’re now seeing the industry, it’s really hard to nounced a sharp slowdown in Players in digital advertis-
tion to $2 billion, more than $395.86 Thursday before set- that trend back off,” Meta CEO grow,” said Brian Wieser, hiring. ing are also facing increased
double the level at the previous tling at around $400. Mark Zuckerberg said during a GroupM’s global president of The slower growth comes competition from TikTok, the
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have whipsawed lately, with to Ned Davis Research. Since tained pullback in consumer my planned retirement now,” perware Brands Corp., which two stores under its AllMod-
the technology-stock-heavy then, that has jumped to 61%. spending. Wayfair’s Mr. Fleisher said, re- sells through an independent ern brand and one location un-
ly
E-commerce retailer Way- ferring to economic challenges sales force, on Wednesday der its Joss & Main brand.
fair Inc. on Thursday named facing companies. withdrew its guidance for the “The consumer environment
Kate Gulliver as its new chief The home-goods retailer on year after it reported falling is such that it looks like it could
on
financial officer to succeed Mi-
chael Fleisher, who has been
in the role since 2013 and
helped prepare the company’s
Thursday reported a third con-
secutive quarterly loss and said
revenue fell nearly 14% in the
first quarter from a year earlier
sales, and said it recruited
Mariela Matute as its new CFO
from avocado distributor Ca-
lavo Growers Inc.
get a lot more challenging over
the coming months and that
could be a very prolonged type
of situation,” said Steven Shem-
initial public offering in 2014. to $3 billion. Wayfair posted a Last month, retail giant Wal- esh, an analyst at investment
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The turnover comes as the order in the past 12 months, fell promoted Brandon Sink, its se- leadership, according to Cathy
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BUSINESS NEWS
News Corp
Revenue
Bud Brewer Buoyed by Pricier Beer
AB InBev says
volumes rose across
Rises 7% much of the world
outside U.S. and China
On Realty, BY SAABIRA CHAUDHURI
.
Excluding the acquisitions been willing to pay up for a early to say how consumers will earlier. Strong top-line growth Michelob Ultra and spirits-
of Investor’s Business Daily range of everyday items. react to a continued rise in allowed AB InBev to offset ris- based canned cocktails, which it
ly
and the Oil Price Information Several executives, however, prices. However, he noted that ing costs from commodity infla- said performed well.
Service business, currency have warned that as prices con- increases in beer prices are tion and its supply chain to re- Volumes also declined in 0
fluctuations and other items, tinue to rise, consumers are lower than the rate of inflation port a profit on an underlying China, with demand hit by
revenue grew by 9%. likely to trade down to cheaper
products.
AB InBev Chief Executive
Michel Doukeris said consumers
on and that the beverage tends to
perform well even as incomes
come under strain, since trad-
ing up to a pricier beer costs
basis—which strips out cur-
rency and one-time impacts—of
$1.2 billion, up from $1.1 billion
a year earlier. On a reported ba-
Covid-19 lockdowns. Across the
rest of the Americas and in Eu-
rope, volumes grew. “As long as
employment is good and the
–10
1Q 2022
+2.8%
3.7M in the U.S. have emerged from significantly less than with sis, profit fell to $95 million overall economy performs well
us ,
the pandemic flush with cash, other feel-good products like from $595 million as the com- and inflation doesn’t get totally
l
and that with unemployment cars or clothes. “When inflation pany took a $1.14 billion impair- out of control we should not –20
e
al a
Total subscriptions for The goes up and demand gets con- ment charge tied to its decision see a dramatic trade down or 2019 ’20 ’21 ’22
Wall Street Journal Heard on the Street: Beer strained, usually beer trades up to exit Russia. slowdown in consumption,”
flexes pricing muscle.......... B12 not down,” he said. In North America—where said Mr. Doukeris. Source: the company
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vertising sales increased 18%, June for its first model, the year to date liveries increased to 360 in the
thanks to a rebound from pan-
demic-related weakness last
year.
Electric car maker Lucid
Group Inc. reported narrower
losses in the first quarter of
Air sedan, which it began sell-
ing last year. It plans to honor
pricing for buyers who re-
20%
10
first quarter, up from the 125
vehicles shipped in the last
quarter of 2021.
But Funds
Overall, ad revenue in- 2022, and said it would in- served models before that The auto maker recently
Stand Out
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creased 20%. crease vehicle prices starting date. Depending on the config- 0 struck a deal with Saudi Ara-
“While the conflict in in June, citing a changing en- uration, prices for the all-elec- bia for the purchase of up to
Ukraine had a short-term im- vironment from when it first tric sedan are expected to in- –10 100,000 vehicles over a 10- BY MARIA ARMENTAL
pact on advertising, given that set pricing in September 2020. crease between 11% and 13% at year period. The Saudi gov- AND CHRIS CUMMING
certain advertisers did not Lucid said on Thursday that the beginning of June, the –20 S&P 500 ernment initially agreed to a
co Fo
want juxtaposition with war it recorded a net loss of $81.3 company said. 50,000-vehicle purchase, but Apollo Global Management
coverage, overall trends re- million in the January-to- Lucid reported $5.4 billion –30 may expand up to double that swung to a loss in the March
main favorable,” News Corp March period, compared with in cash on hand, down from amount during the period, Lu- quarter, but its private-equity
–40
Chief Executive Robert Thom- a $2.9 billion loss in the same $6.3 billion in the previous pe- cid said. portfolio outperformed the
son said on an earnings call. year-ago period. The company riod ending in December. –50
With an eye on increasing market.
The Journal averaged more stuck with its production out- The company’s price in- production, Lucid has said it The New York firm, which
than three million digital sub- look of 12,000 to 14,000 vehi- creases come as EV producers Lucid Group signed an agreement with the this year bought the rest of
–60
scriptions in the quarter, up cles in 2022, a forecast it re- such as Rivian Automotive Inc. Saudi government to build an annuity manager and insurer
Jan. Feb. March April May
from over 2.9 million in the duced this year, citing supply- and Tesla Inc. have also raised assembly plant in the country. Athene Holding Ltd. that it
previous quarter. chain disruptions and trouble prices on some of their models. Source: FactSet This plant will have the capac- didn’t already own, reported a
Including the print edition, getting parts such as glass and Startups such as Lucid won ity to produce 150,000 cars first-quarter loss of $870 mil-
the Journal averaged 3.7 mil- carpet. Lucid said it continues over investors last year and their factories to fulfill initial annually, the company has lion, or $1.50 a share, com-
lion subscriptions in the pe- to face logistics challenges, raised billions of dollars in orders, challenges that have said. pared with a profit of $679
n-
riod. citing factory shutdowns in capital amid a broader eupho- weighed on their stock prices. The auto maker rolled out million, or $2.81 a share, a
Total average subscriptions China related to Covid-19. ria on Wall Street for electric Lucid shares are down the Lucid Air in the fall of year earlier. The deficit,
to Dow Jones consumer prod- The company reported vehicles. While the first models about 51% since Jan. 1 and 2021. The fully electric car Apollo said, stemmed largely
ucts reached over 4.8 million, quarterly revenue of $57.7 mil- produced by these newcomers closed down 7% on Thursday. won the MotorTrend maga- from unrealized losses on re-
no
the company said. lion, up from $313,000 in the have been generally well re- The stock was flat in aftermar- zine award for 2021 Car of the insurance assets in its retire-
News Corp’s other news first three months of 2021. ceived, the companies are run- ket trading following the earn- Year, and boasts a 520-mile ment-services business as a
publications, which include Lucid said it plans to in- ning into problems ramping up ings release. range, the top in the industry. result of rising interest rates.
the New York Post, the Sun Apollo’s private-equity
and the Times in the U.K. and portfolio appreciated by
many papers in Australia, re-
ported a 5% increase in reve-
nue.
The company’s book-pub-
Kellogg Expects Prices to Increase nearly 8% in the quarter, in-
cluding 15% from Fund IX, the
firm said. That compares with
a 4.9% decline for the S&P
lishing unit, HarperCollins BY ANNIE GASPARRO 500. Adjusted net income,
Publishers, posted a 5% reve- AND DEAN SEAL which Apollo earlier called
nue increase, helped by the ac- distributable earnings, rose to
quisition of Houghton Mifflin Kellogg Co.’s chief executive $915 million, or $1.52 a share.
Harcourt’s Books and Media hinted that additional price in- Apollo bills itself as having
segment and strong perfor- creases are inevitable this year an investment strategy de-
mance by titles such as “Red amid worsening cost inflation signed to thrive in times of
Handed” by Peter Schweizer from lingering supply-chain turbulence. On a Thursday call
and “The Paris Apartment” by disruptions and the war in with analysts, Chief Executive
Lucy Foley. Segment earnings Ukraine. Marc Rowan said the economy
decreased 16%, due in part to “Ultimately, in an environ- had again entered a period of
GABBY JONES FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
higher manufacturing and ment like this, which clearly disturbance that would play to
freight costs, as well as the we haven’t seen in 40 years, Apollo’s strengths.
impact from continuing sup- we aren’t going to be able to “The trends we’re seeing in
ply-chain and inflationary just not pass prices through to the marketplace—specifically,
pressures. consumers,” said CEO Steve rates up and volatility—histor-
The company’s digital real- Cahillane. “Productivity just ically have been very good for
estate services division re- simply can’t cover this type of our business,” Mr. Rowan said.
ported a 19% gain in revenue. inflation.” Co-president Scott Klein-
Segment earnings increased The maker of Frosted Flakes, man said the strong perfor-
17%. News Corp has a majority Eggos and Cheez-Its, Kellogg on mance by Apollo’s private-eq-
stake in REA Group Ltd., a Thursday posted a 15% rise in uity portfolio, in a quarter
publicly traded digital real-es- first-quarter earnings, thanks when public markets declined,
tate company, as well as an to price increases and steady The maker of Raisin Bran expects comparable sales to rise 4% this year, up from a prior view of 3%. showed that the firm’s ap-
80% stake in Move Inc., an on- sales growth for its snack proach should be back in
line real-estate business based brands. that could change later in the to a four-decade high of 8.5%. brands lost market share and vogue during the current tur-
in Santa Clara, Calif., that pri- Kellogg now expects its year. For Kellogg, price sensi- But the reaction among con- shelf space. bulence.
marily operates the website comparable sales to rise 4% tivity is starting to show sumers—switching to cheaper “We aren’t at all complacent, The strategy “hasn’t been
Realtor.com. this year, up from a prior view through in frozen meals and ce- brands or buying less food—is and we aren’t underestimating sexy over the last decade,” as
News Corp’s subscription- of 3%. The measure strips out real now, Mr. Cahillane said. less stark than in previous peri- the challenge of rebuilding our cheap money inflated asset
video-services unit, which in- effects from currency, acquisi- Snacks, such as its Pringles, are ods of inflation, Kellogg execu- business,” Mr. Cahillane said. prices across the board, he
cludes Foxtel, an Australian tions and divestitures. more resilient. tives said. For the period ended April 2, said. “But as we enter this
pay-TV provider, posted a 6% Kellogg’s shares rose 3.5% That isn’t surprising given Kellogg’s optimism for the Kellogg reported profit of $424 new economic regime change
decrease in revenue and a 13% on Thursday, closing at $70.23. the level of price increases in year comes despite challenges million, or $1.23 a share, versus where you can’t just rely on
drop in segment earnings. The The stock is up more than 11% the grocery store and every- with Kellogg’s U.S. cereal busi- $371 million, or $1.07, a year declining or 0% rates to allow
unit’s performance was over the past 12 months. where, Mr. Cahillane said. Food- nesses, which suffered from a earlier. Analysts polled by Fact- you to exit at ever-increasing
weighed down by the loss of So far, U.S. consumers have at-home prices were up 10% in factory worker strike and a Set recently forecast earnings multiples, this is exactly the
residential broadcast subscrib- mostly withstood food makers’ March, from a year earlier, ac- plant fire last year. In the first of 92 cents. Sales rose 2.4% to type of performance I would
ers and by foreign currency higher price tags. But Kellogg cording to the Consumer Price quarter, its U.S. cereal sales fell $3.67 billion, beating analyst expect to be seeing,” Mr.
fluctuations. and other industry giants say Index. Overall inflation surged 10% from a year earlier, and its estimates of $3.59 billion. Kleinman said.
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Metal & Petroleum Futures Natural Gas (NYM)-10,000 MMBtu.; $ per MMBtu. Aug 175.550 175.550 173.650 174.375 –1.825 24,459 June'23 96.7600 96.7900 96.6300 96.6650 –.1400 645,188
June 8.355 8.913 s 8.117 8.783 .368 122,561 Cattle-Live (CME)-40,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Eurodollar (CME)-$1,000,000; pts of 100%
Contract Open July 8.457 8.965 s 8.178 8.841 .369 172,843 June 135.175 135.250 133.650 133.775 –1.050 116,896 May 98.4950 98.5350 98.4800 98.4900 –.0050 128,091
Open High hi lo Low Settle Chg interest
Sept 8.372 8.890 s 8.132 8.773 .361 88,486 Aug 137.125 137.200 135.450 136.025 –1.050 95,124 Sept 97.3250 97.3450 97.2750 97.3000 –.0250 1,033,441
Copper-High (CMX)-25,000 lbs.; $ per lb. Oct 8.356 8.880 s 8.114 8.767 .360 97,584 Hogs-Lean (CME)-40,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Dec 96.8350 96.8650 96.7450 96.7750 –.0800 1,364,884
May 4.3985 4.4200 4.2785 4.2850 –0.0435 4,512 Jan'23 8.655 9.142 s 8.418 9.053 .350 65,727 May 102.500 102.975 102.050 102.800 .200 1,825 Dec'23 96.6350 96.6750 96.5150 96.5550 –.1250 1,188,209
July 4.3670 4.4400 4.2765 4.2915 –0.0465 113,209 May 4.760 4.890 s 4.748 4.872 .076 60,266 June 105.600 107.525 105.325 107.075 1.975 69,238
Gold (CMX)-100 troy oz.; $ per troy oz. Lumber (CME)-110,000 bd. ft., $ per 1,000 bd. ft.
May 1897.00 1904.30 1875.40 1874.00 7.00 918 Currency Futures
Agriculture Futures May 1010.00 1033.40 993.80 1020.00 10.00 443
June 1884.10 1910.70 1872.30 1875.70 6.90 420,192 July 904.60 915.00 868.40 873.90 –35.80 1,644 Japanese Yen (CME)-¥12,500,000; $ per 100¥
July 1898.40 1910.20 1878.70 1879.00 6.90 141 Corn (CBT)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu. Milk (CME)-200,000 lbs., cents per lb. May .7748 .7768 .7663 .7671 –.0099 537
Aug 1891.30 1917.60 1879.60 1883.00 6.80 96,526 May 799.75 804.75 796.00 803.75 5.25 3,673
May 24.81 25.09 24.72 24.94 .22 5,405 June .7753 .7776 .7669 .7678 –.0098 248,870
Oct 1910.00 1924.80 1888.80 1890.70 6.60 13,023 July 794.25 802.00 791.00 797.50 3.25 655,557
Oats (CBT)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu. June 24.40 24.96 24.23 24.66 .36 5,008 Canadian Dollar (CME)-CAD 100,000; $ per CAD
Dec 1907.50 1933.50 1896.50 1899.50 6.50 30,870
689.50 –19.25 2
Cocoa (ICE-US)-10 metric tons; $ per ton. May .7848 .7866 .7772 .7778 –.0064 653
Palladium (NYM) - 50 troy oz.; $ per troy oz. May
May 2,519 –69 45
July 676.25 678.75 648.75 659.50 –19.25 2,063 June .7849 .7865 .7770 .7777 –.0066 136,986
May 2175.30 –58.00 1
July 2,580 2,584 2,505 2,511 –69 105,322 British Pound (CME)-£62,500; $ per £
June 2241.50 2277.00 2159.50 2177.40 –58.60 5,637 Soybeans (CBT)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu.
Platinum (NYM)-50 troy oz.; $ per troy oz. May 1682.50 1699.50 1674.50 1678.50 8.75 1,866 Coffee (ICE-US)-37,500 lbs.; cents per lb. May 1.2608 1.2632 t 1.2326 1.2350 –.0227 927
July 1643.00 1667.00 1640.00 1647.00 6.50 321,844 May 218.50 218.50 218.00 218.40 –2.80 119 June 1.2631 1.2635 t 1.2325 1.2350 –.0227 265,230
May 979.50 979.50 979.50 971.80 –6.40 43
Soybean Meal (CBT)-100 tons; $ per ton. July 221.00 222.90 216.10 217.25 –3.55 96,666 Swiss Franc (CME)-CHF 125,000; $ per CHF
July 983.00 993.10 962.80 973.40 –6.20 55,778
Silver (CMX)-5,000 troy oz.; $ per troy oz. May 431.40 435.10 425.10 426.90 –1.40 965 Sugar-World (ICE-US)-112,000 lbs.; cents per lb. June 1.0303 t 1.0129
1.0319 1.0141 –.0141 49,755
418.40 426.40 418.40 419.90 1.70 182,388 July 18.74 18.88 18.61 18.78 .16 356,214
May 23.120 23.245 22.370 22.400 0.038 2,884 July Sept 1.0380 t 1.0199
1.0380 1.0210 –.0142 231
Soybean Oil (CBT)-60,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Oct 18.85 18.97 18.74 18.91 .13 181,627
July 23.040 23.345 22.325 22.443 0.041 113,245 Australian Dollar (CME)-AUD 100,000; $ per AUD
Crude Oil, Light Sweet (NYM)-1,000 bbls.; $ per bbl. May 86.50 –.58 257 Sugar-Domestic (ICE-US)-112,000 lbs.; cents per lb. May .7256 .7267 .7080 .7093 –.0141 210
June 107.58 111.37 106.97 108.26 0.45 240,833 July 82.37 83.78 81.17 81.85 –.58 162,816 July 36.60 .10 875
June .7260 .7271 .7082 .7096 –.0141 149,381
July 106.07 109.77 105.45 106.74 0.52 177,297 Rough Rice (CBT)-2,000 cwt.; $ per cwt. Sept 36.50 .20 2,320
Cotton (ICE-US)-50,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Mexican Peso (CME)-MXN 500,000; $ per MXN
Sept 102.32 105.62 101.58 102.84 0.35 107,172 May 16.73 16.73 16.64 16.70 –.02 15
May 152.02 –6.00 18 May .04916 –.00054 10
Dec 96.77 99.66 96.20 97.31 0.27 248,398 July 17.13 17.36 16.78 17.08 –.02 7,862
154.95 155.24 148.76 148.76 –6.00 94,685 June .04955 .04964 .04887 .04890 –.00054 154,817
June'23 88.85 91.10 88.49 89.41 0.28 122,639 Wheat (CBT)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu. July
Dec 83.70 85.56 83.22 84.24 0.26 130,822 May 1096.00 30.00 394 Orange Juice (ICE-US)-15,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Euro (CME)-€125,000; $ per €
1079.00 1121.75 1077.25 1106.50 30.00 176,561 May 187.30 8.75 688 May 1.0630 1.0645 1.0498 1.0519 –.0103 2,009
NY Harbor ULSD (NYM)-42,000 gal.; $ per gal. July
June 4.2098 4.2455 4.0200 4.0413 –.1557 63,205 Wheat (KC)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu. July 174.90 177.35 170.45 173.30 –2.25 9,751 June 1.0640 1.0659 1.0509 1.0532 –.0104 685,906
July 3.8877 3.9282 s 3.7914 3.8204 –.0618 47,794 May 1165.75 53.25 31
Gasoline-NY RBOB (NYM)-42,000 gal.; $ per gal. July 1123.25 1180.00 1123.25 1177.00 53.75 98,201 Interest Rate Futures Index Futures
June 3.6624 3.7222 s 3.6069 3.6587 .0064 107,755 Cattle-Feeder (CME)-50,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Mini DJ Industrial Average (CBT)-$5 x index
July 3.5729 3.6390 s 3.5290 3.5800 .0125 64,378 May 162.000 162.000 159.825 160.325 –1.925 4,590 Ultra Treasury Bonds (CBT) - $100,000; pts 32nds of 100%
June 157-110 158-080 152-190 153-190 –4-27.0 1,275,388 June 33926 34020 32589 32910 –1059 78,630
Sept 152-250 –4-27.0 2 Sept 33930 34011 32595 32908 –1058 705
Treasury Bonds (CBT)-$100,000; pts 32nds of 100% Mini S&P 500 (CME)-$50 x index
Bonds | wsj.com/market-data/bonds/benchmarks June
Sept
139-190 140-030 136-190 137-090 –2-28.0 1,165,354
136-110 –2-27.0 20,503
June
Sept
4289.75
4291.25
4300.75
4304.50
4099.25
4103.25
4143.25 –152.00 2,145,979
4147.00 –152.50 20,075
Treasury Notes (CBT)-$100,000; pts 32nds of 100% Mini S&P Midcap 400 (CME)-$100 x index
Tracking Bond Benchmarks June 118-295 119-095 117-260 118-020 –1-03.0 3,636,723 June
Sept
2605.60 2611.90 2483.50 2509.20 –97.00
2517.00 –97.00
55,000
3
Sept 118-190 118-255 117-070 117-145 –1-05.0 18,677
Return on investment and spreads over Treasurys and/or yields paid to investors compared with 52-week 5 Yr. Treasury Notes (CBT)-$100,000; pts 32nds of 100% Mini Nasdaq 100 (CME)-$20 x index
highs and lows for different types of bonds June 112-245 112-305 112-037 112-085 –19.2 3,841,985 June t 12705.25 12858.00
13500.25 13548.00 –673.25 226,756
Sept 111-257 –20.2 9,788 Sept t 12744.75 12894.50
13543.00 13582.00 –675.00 2,639
Total Total
2 Yr. Treasury Notes (CBT)-$200,000; pts 32nds of 100% Mini Russell 2000 (CME)-$50 x index
return YTD total Yield (%) return YTD total Yield (%) June 1943.30 1950.80 1844.10 1868.10 –79.10 496,052
June 105-170 105-187 105-107 105-118 –6.9 2,229,838
close return (%) Index Latest Low High close return (%) Index Latest Low High Sept 1948.80 1951.50 1846.80 1869.60 –79.10 443
Sept 104-301 –6.9 2,207
Mortgage-Backed Bloomberg Fixed Income Indices 30 Day Federal Funds (CBT)-$5,000,000; 100 - daily avg. Mini Russell 1000 (CME)-$50 x index
Broad Market Bloomberg Fixed Income Indices June 2323.50 2363.40 2256.60 2278.90 –88.00 13,347
May 99.2300 99.2325 99.2300 99.2300 .0000 366,706
2016.24 -10.1 U.S. Aggregate 3.540 1.340 3.570 2000.98 -8.9 Mortgage-Backed 3.580 1.590 3.700 July 98.5650 98.5700 98.5500 98.5550 –.0150 319,209 U.S. Dollar Index (ICE-US)-$1,000 x index
10 Yr. Del. Int. Rate Swaps (CBT)-$100,000; pts 32nds of 100% June 102.57 103.97 s 102.38 103.80 1.21 54,337
U.S. Corporate Indexes Bloomberg Fixed Income Indices 1966.66 -8.0 Ginnie Mae (GNMA) 3.610 1.610 3.720 June 85-150 –1-04.0 13,397 Sept 102.41 103.71 s 102.22 103.56 1.21 531
2951.62 -13.4 U.S. Corporate 4.400 1.910 4.410 1177.99 -9.0 Fannie mae (FNMA) 3.580 1.580 3.700 Three-Month SOFR (CME)-$1,000,000; 100 - daily avg.
March 99.4875 99.4900 99.4850 99.4875 –.0025 524,901 Source: FactSet
2820.65 -8.2 Intermediate 4.100 1.260 4.140 1805.40 -9.4 Freddie Mac (FHLMC) 3.580 1.570 3.690
4013.69 -21.4 Long term 4.930 2.900 4.930 549.83 -8.7 Muni Master 3.028 0.687 3.028
580.03 -14.1 Double-A-rated 3.870 1.650 3.870 386.84 -9.0 7-12 year 3.028 0.687 3.028 Cash Prices | wsj.com/market-data/commodities Thursday, May 5, 2022
780.52 -13.7 Triple-B-rated 4.690 2.110 4.700 438.70 -10.8 12-22 year 3.474 1.000 3.474 These prices reflect buying and selling of a variety of actual or “physical” commodities in the marketplace—
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High Yield Bonds ICE BofA 420.03 -13.5 22-plus year 3.948 1.443 3.948
ly
months.
477.60 -8.5 High Yield Constrained 7.161 3.796 7.233 Global Government J.P. Morgan† Thursday Thursday Thursday
460.72 -8.5 Triple-C-rated 11.931 6.304 11.931 552.33 -7.9 Global Government 2.090 0.720 2.090
Energy Iron Ore, 62% Fe CFR China-s 145.8 Wheat,Spring14%-pro Mnpls-u 13.8975
Shredded Scrap, US Midwest-s,m n.a. Wheat,No.2 soft red,St.Louis-u 11.0725
3176.43 -8.6 High Yield 100 6.696 3.162 7.438 769.94 -8.2 Canada 2.940 1.230 2.940
418.14
320.05
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-8.3
Global High Yield Constrained 7.191 3.968 7.193
Europe High Yield Constrained 5.420 2.304 5.420
U.S Agency Bloomberg Fixed Income Indices
367.54
689.33
492.11
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-9.3
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France
Germany
1.744 0.163 1.744
1.540 0.080 1.540
0.960 -0.410 0.960
Coal,C.Aplc.,12500Btu,1.2SO2-r,w 119.300
Coal,PwdrRvrBsn,8800Btu,0.8SO2-r,w 15.550
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72775
17100
Wheat - Hard - KC (USDA) $ per bu-u
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11.1250
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1725.46 -6.0 U.S Agency 3.010 0.640 3.030 288.50 -2.1 Japan 0.570 0.260 0.600 Handy & Harman base 1892.30 BMIFlakeGraphite,FOBChina,-100Mesh,94-95%-v,m 730 select 1-3,600-900 lbs.-u 216.69
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Handy & Harman fabricated 2100.45 Broilers, National comp wtd. avg.-u,w 1.6923
1521.34 -5.0 10-20 years 2.950 0.520 2.980 536.83 -9.9 Netherlands 1.210 -0.290 1.210 Fibers and Textiles Butter,AA Chicago-d 2.6600
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3482.62 -16.9 20-plus years 3.780 1.890 3.780 927.10 -10.7 U.K. 2.010 0.720 2.040 LBMA Gold Price PM *1863.65 Cheddar cheese,bbl,Chicago-d 238.00
Burlap,10-oz,40-inch NY yd-n,w 0.8550
Krugerrand,wholesale-e 1950.21 Cheddar cheese,blk,Chicago-d 235.00
2590.19 -10.2 Yankee 4.000 1.510 4.030 783.30 -14.8 Emerging Markets ** 6.897 4.516 6.897 Cotton,1 1/16 std lw-mdMphs-u 1.4776
Maple Leaf-e 1968.96 Milk,Nonfat dry,Chicago lb.-d 174.00
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Handy & Harman base 22.4550 Corn,No. 2 yellow,Cent IL-bp,u 7.8400 Pork loins,13-19 lb MidUS-u 1.2589
selected other countries; arrows indicate whether the yield rose(s) or fell (t) in the latest session Handy & Harman fabricated 28.0690 Corn gluten feed,Midwest-u,w 229.7 Steers,Tex.-Okla. Choice-u 140.00
Country/ Yield (%) Spread Under/Over U.S. Treasurys, in basis points LBMA spot price *£18.0500 Corn gluten meal,Midwest-u,w 687.5 Steers,feeder,Okla. City-u,w 180.25
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Coupon (%) Maturity, in years Latest(l)-2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 Previous Month ago Year ago Latest Prev Year ago (U.S.$ equivalent) *22.5950 Cottonseed meal-u,w 355
2.500 U.S. 2 2.722 s l 2.614 2.502 0.157 Coins,wholesale $1,000 face-a 19510 Hominy feed,Cent IL-u,w 175 Fats and Oils
1.875 10 3.066 s l 2.914 2.554 1.584 Other metals Meat-bonemeal,50% pro Mnpls-u,w 375 Degummed corn oil, crude wtd. avg.-u,w 76.2500
LBMA Platinum Price PM *972.0 Oats,No.2 milling,Mnpls-u 7.0800 Grease,choice white,Chicago-h 0.7300
2.750 Australia 2 2.726 t l 2.912 1.968 0.096 0.6 15.6 -6.1 Platinum,Engelhard industrial 995.0 Rice, Long Grain Milled, No. 2 AR-u,w 31.25 Lard,Chicago-u n.a.
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1.000 10 3.393 t l 3.545 2.859 1.692 48.0 58.3 11.6 Palladium,Engelhard industrial 2260.0 Sorghum,(Milo) No.2 Gulf-u n.a. Soybean oil,crude;Centl IL-u,w 0.9442
Aluminum, LME, $ per metric ton *2929.0 SoybeanMeal,Cent IL,rail,ton48%-u,w 456.90 Tallow,bleach;Chicago-h 0.8050
0.000 France 2 0.281 s l 0.258 0.035 -0.656 -244.1 -249.8 -81.3
Copper,Comex spot 4.2850 Soybeans,No.1 yllw IL-bp,u 16.5000 Tallow,edible,Chicago-u n.a.
0.000 10 1.568 s l 1.509 1.132 0.136 -134.5 -145.4 -144.0
0.000 Germany 2 0.291 s l 0.274 -0.020 -0.691 -242.9 -248.2 -84.8 KEY TO CODES: A=ask; B=bid; BP=country elevator bids to producers; C=corrected; D=CME; E=Manfra,Tordella & Brookes; H=American Commodities Brokerage Co;
K=bi-weekly; M=monthly; N=nominal; n.a.=not quoted or not available; P=Sosland Publishing; R=SNL Energy; S=Platts-TSI; T=Cotlook Limited; U=USDA; V=Benchmark
0.000 10 1.048 s l 0.973 0.619 -0.225 -186.5 -199.0 -180.0 Mineral Intelligence; W=weekly; Y=International Coffee Organization; Z=not quoted. *Data as of 5/4
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Prices of firms' bonds reflect factors including investors' economic, sectoral and company-specific VangdTotIntlStk VXUS 55.16 –3.19 –13.2
IndSelSectorSPDR XLI 96.17 –2.61 –9.1 VangdMC Val VOE 143.80 –2.77 –4.3 VangdTotalStk VTI 207.62 –3.69 –14.0
expectations InvscQQQI QQQ 313.00 –5.04 –21.3 VangdMBS VMBS 47.76 –0.95 –9.6 VangdTotlWrld VT 92.86 –3.41 –13.6
InvscS&P500EW RSP 148.61 –3.01 –8.7
Investment-grade spreads that tightened the most… iShCoreDivGrowth DGRO 50.97 –2.67 –8.3
VangdRealEst VNQ 101.10 –2.67 –12.9 VangdValue VTV 142.57 –2.18 –3.1
OneMain Finance OMF 6.875 6.34 March 15, ’25 101.369 0.37 101.850 ProShUltPrQQQ TQQQ 35.86 –14.90 –56.9
SPDRBlm1-3MTB BIL 91.44 ... 0.01
Telecom Italia TITIM 5.303 6.38 May 30, ’24 97.950 0.33 98.550 SPDR Gold GLD 175.13 –0.38 2.4 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC TENDER Nº 411
SPDRS&P500Value SPYV 40.03 –2.41 –4.7
Howmet Aerospace HWM 5.950 5.92 Feb. 1, ’37 100.250 0.26 102.000 Object: Acquisition of high complexity equipment
SPDRPtfS&P500 SPLG 48.66 –3.57 –12.8
Navient NAVI 6.750 7.36 June 15, ’26 97.875 0.19 99.000 SchwabIntEquity SCHF 33.93 –3.11 –12.7 and measurement instruments.
SchwabUS BrdMkt SCHB 48.64 –3.74 –13.9
Ford Motor F 4.750 6.45 Jan. 15, ’43 80.750 0.18 81.750 Destination: New Hospital of San Martín de los Andes,
SchwabUS Div SCHD 76.85 –2.49 –4.9
SchwabUS LC SCHX 49.09 –3.71 –13.7
dependent on the Sanitary Zone IV. Province of Neuquén,
Argentinian Republic.
…And with the biggest price decreases SchwabUS LC Grw SCHG 64.41 –5.11 –21.3
Electronic File: EX-2022-00303570-NEU-DESP#MS
SchwabUS SC SCHA 43.25 –3.97 –15.5
Rite Aid RAD 7.700 18.37 Feb. 15, ’27 67.000 –3.33 70.000 Schwab US TIPs SCHP 58.00 –1.07 –7.8 Physical File: No. 8600-072277/2022
SPDR DJIA Tr DIA 330.24 –3.04 –9.1 DECTO-2022-762-E-NEU-GPN
Occidental Petroleum OXY 6.200 6.03 March 15, ’40 101.785 –2.22 105.000 SPDR S&PMdCpTr MDY 458.46 –3.71 –11.4 Estimated amount: $ 394.572.400.
–2.11 SPDR S&P 500 SPY 413.81 –3.55 –12.9
Transocean RIG 6.800 12.70 March 15, ’38 60.138 61.250 Date, time and place of opening: May 19, 2022 - Time: 12:00
SPDR S&P Div SDY 125.44 –2.46 –2.9
6.875 Nov. 1, ’35 –1.38 98.500
Undersecretary of Health (C.A.M.), located at 1245 Antártida
Bath & Body Works BBWI 7.42 95.375 TechSelectSector XLK 141.71 –4.81 –18.5
UtilitiesSelSector XLU 71.64 –1.02 0.1
Argentina St. (8300) Neuquén City, Province of Neuquén,
Nokia Oyj NOKIA 6.625 5.57 May 15, ’39 111.478 –1.12 n.a. VanEckGoldMin GDX 34.63 –3.21 8.1
Argentinian Republic – General Directorate of Purchases – via
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Ford Motor Credit … 4.389 5.69 Jan. 8, ’26 95.750 –1.08 96.875 VangdInfoTech VGT 366.73 –5.11 –20.0
VangdSC Val VBR 166.98 –3.19 –6.6 Availability of specifications: Official Website of the Neuquén
CSC Holdings CSCHLD 5.250 6.36 June 1, ’24 97.875 –0.88 98.500 VangdExtMkt VXF 147.42 –4.50 –19.4 Province https://licitaciones.neuquen.gov.ar/ and Neuquén
7.650 March 15, ’42 –0.88 n.a. VangdSC Grwth VBK 218.71 –4.84 –22.4 Ministry of Health www.saludneuquen.gob.ar/licitaciones.
Lumen Technologies LUMN 9.34 84.875
VangdDivApp VIG 153.85 –2.96 –10.4 NO FEE.
*Estimated spread over 2-year, 3-year, 5-year, 10-year or 30-year hot-run Treasury; 100 basis points=one percentage pt.; change in spread shown is for Z-spread. VangdFTSEDevMk VEA 44.29 –3.19 –13.3
VangdFTSE EM VWO 42.51 –3.63 –14.1
Note: Data are for the most active issue of bonds with maturities of two years or more
Source: MarketAxess VangdFTSE Europe VGK 57.61 –3.27 –15.6
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World MSCI ACWI 650.08 –17.00 –2.55 –13.9 Hudson Technologies HDSN 9.06 1.92 26.89 9.22 1.83 306.3 Edible Garden EDBL 2.89 -2.11 -42.20 5.00 2.46 ...
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MSCI Emerging Markets 1058.72 –5.12 –0.48 –14.1 Nuvectis Pharma NVCT 13.98 2.38 20.52 14.39 3.08 ... Singularity Future Tech SGLY 4.80 -1.95 -28.89 19.86 2.09 23.1
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Brazil BOVESPA 105304.19 –3039.55 –2.81 0.5 Axogen AXGN 9.77 1.51 18.28 23.94 6.87 -55.8 SAI.TECH Global SAI 6.78 -2.09 -23.53 12.60 6.57 ...
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Germany DAX 13902.52 –68.30 –0.49 –12.5
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Netherlands AEX 696.19 –2.49 –0.36 –12.8
0.52 –29.8 ProShares UltraPro QQQ TQQQ 226,637 97.2 35.86 -14.90 91.68 34.52 Mountain Crest Acqn V MCAG 739 9748 9.84 -0.20 9.95 9.71
Russia RTS Index 1119.92 5.79
ProSh UltraPro Shrt QQQ SQQQ 174,643 77.8 47.95 14.74 65.85 28.15 Atl Coastal Acqn II Cl A ACAB 739 9471 9.95 0.00 10.01 9.87
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–22.1 Invesco QQQ Trust I QQQ 153,687 98.9 313.00 -5.04 408.71 309.62 FT Horizon Mgd Vol Dev HDMV 609 7741 29.47 -3.17 32.92 28.70
Sweden OMX Stockholm 808.21 –9.84 –1.20
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Advanced Micro Devices AMD 152,875 43.5 93.87 -5.58 164.46 72.50 SVF Investment 2 SVFB 3,991 7109 9.81 0.00 10.38 9.68
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U.K. FTSE 250 20089.96 –129.52 –0.64 –14.4 Finl Select Sector SPDR XLF 101,010 43.4 34.99 -2.91 41.70 33.84 Hlthcr Svcs Acqn Cl A HCAR 1,200 3999 9.85 -0.25 10.31 9.62
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CFG Community Bank 2.00% s Hong Kong dollar .1274 7.8494 0.7
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Sources: Tradeweb ICE U.S. Treasury Close; Tullett Prebon; Dow Jones Market Data Singapore dollar .7225 1.3840 2.6 Saudi Arabia riyal .2666 3.7510 –0.1
Yield/Rate (%) 52-Week Range (%) 3-yr chg South Korea won .0007877 1269.56 6.8 South Africa rand .0626 15.9829 0.3
Interest rate Last (l)Week ago Low 0 2 4 6 8 High (pct pts)
Corporate Borrowing Rates and Yields Sri Lanka rupee .0027027 370.00 82.3
Close Net Chg % Chg YTD%Chg
Federal-funds rate target 0.75-1.00 0.25-0.50 0.00 l 1.00 -1.50 Taiwan dollar .03370 29.672 7.1
Yield (%) 52-Week Total Return (%) Thailand baht .02910 34.370 3.4 WSJ Dollar Index 95.88 1.07 1.13 7.07
Prime rate* 4.00 3.50 3.25 l 4.00 -1.50 Bond total return index Close Last Week ago High Low 52-wk 3-yr
Libor, 3-month 1.37 1.29 0.11 l 1.41 -1.19 Sources: Tullett Prebon, Dow Jones Market Data
U.S. Treasury, Bloomberg 2170.030 2.970 2.800 2.970 0.780 –8.329 0.209
Money market, annual yield 0.08 0.08 0.07 l 0.08 -0.57
Five-year CD, annual yield 0.77 0.61 0.41 l 0.77 -1.24 U.S. Treasury Long, Bloomberg 3537.360 3.280 3.030 3.280 1.720 –15.486 –0.350 Commodities
30-year mortgage, fixed† 5.54 5.50 3.00 l 5.58 1.34 Aggregate, Bloomberg 2016.240 3.540 3.400 3.570 1.340 –9.360 0.162 Thursday 52-Week YTD
Pricing trends on someClose
raw materials, or commodities
Net chg % Chg High Low % Chg % chg
15-year mortgage, fixed† 4.76 4.74 2.28 l 4.76 1.09 Fixed-Rate MBS, Bloomberg 2000.980 3.580 3.520 3.700 1.590 –9.337 –0.876
Jumbo mortgages, $647,200-plus† 5.54 5.48 3.03 l 5.59 1.15 DJ Commodity 1219.38 4.81 0.40 1264.48 853.12 37.06 28.87
High Yield 100, ICE BofA 3176.428 6.696 6.803 7.438 3.162 –6.084 1.493 Refinitiv/CC CRB Index 313.87 -0.40 -0.13 315.95 200.00 52.92 35.07
Five-year adj mortgage (ARM)† 3.74 3.63 2.82 l 3.74 -0.65
Muni Master, ICE BofA 549.828 3.028 2.905 3.028 0.687 –8.009 0.283 Crude oil, $ per barrel 108.26 0.45 0.42 123.70 62.05 67.30 43.94
New-car loan, 48-month 4.34 4.31 3.41 l 4.34 -0.42
Bankrate.com rates based on survey of over 4,800 online banks. *Base rate posted by 70% of the nation's largest EMBI Global, J.P. Morgan 783.295 6.897 6.685 6.897 4.516 –13.941 –1.668 Natural gas, $/MMBtu 8.783 0.368 4.37 8.783 2.886 199.97 135.47
banks.† Excludes closing costs.
Sources: FactSet; Dow Jones Market Data; Bankrate.com Sources: J.P. Morgan; Bloomberg Fixed Income Indices; ICE Data Services
Gold, $ per troy oz. 1874.00 7.00 0.37 2040.10 1721.50 3.22 2.54
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This announcement is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell the common shares of Imperial Oil Limited. The Offer (as defined below) is made solely by UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
the Offer to Purchase, dated May 6, 2022, and the accompanying Issuer Bid Circular, and the related Letter of Transmittal, and Notice of Guaranteed Delivery and any amendments DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
or supplements thereto. The Offer is not being made to, nor will tenders be accepted from or on behalf of, holders of the Shares (as defined below) in any jurisdiction in which
the making or acceptance of offers to sell the Shares would not be in compliance with the laws of that jurisdiction. In any jurisdiction where the securities, blue sky, or other laws
require the Offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer, the Offer shall be deemed made on behalf of Imperial Oil Limited by the Dealer Manager (as defined below) or one or FADI DAHHAN, Individually and on Behalf of All ) No. 1:17-cv-10511-IT
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At a Purchase Price of Not Less Than C$62.00 per Common Share
And Not More Than C$78.00 per Common Share
Imperial Oil Limited, a Canadian corporation (the “Company”), is offering to purchase for cancellation a number of the Company’s common shares (each, a “Share”), having an
aggregate purchase price not exceeding C$2,500,000,000 pursuant to: (i) auction tenders in which the tendering shareholders specify the number of Shares being tendered at a
TO: All persons or entities who purchased or acquired OvaScience, Inc. (“OvaScience”) common stock
between December 17, 2014 and September 28, 2015, inclusive (the “Class”)1
PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY; YOUR RIGHTS WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE
specified price (the “Auction Price”) of not less than C$62.00 and not more than C$78.00 per Share in increments of C$0.25 per Share (the “Auction Tenders”), (ii) purchase price SETTLEMENT OF A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT PENDING IN THIS COURT.
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tenders, in which the tendering shareholders do not specify a price per Share, but rather agree to have a specified number of Shares purchased at the Purchase Price (as defined
below) to be determined pursuant to the Offer to Purchase (as defined below) (the “Purchase Price Tenders”), or (iii) proportionate tenders, in which the tendering shareholders YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED, pursuant to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and an Order of the
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do not specify a price per Share, but rather agree to have a number of Shares purchased at the Purchase Price to be determined pursuant to the Offer to Purchase that will result
in them maintaining their respective proportionate Share ownership (the “Proportionate Tenders), upon the terms and subject to the conditions described in the Offer to Purchase, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (the “Court”), that Lead Plaintiff and Class Representative
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dated May 6, 2022 (the “Offer to Purchase”), and the accompanying Issuer Bid Circular (the “Issuer Bid Circular”) and the related Letter of Transmittal (the “Letter of Transmittal”) Freedman Family Investments LLC, on behalf of itself and the Court-certified Class in the above-captioned securities
and notice of guaranteed delivery (the “Notice of Guaranteed Delivery”) (which together, as they may be amended and supplemented from time to time, constitute the “Offer”). class action (the “Action”), has reached a proposed settlement of the Action with defendants OvaScience, Michelle Dipp,
THE OFFER WILL EXPIRE AT 5:00 P.M., CALGARY TIME, ON JUNE 10, 2022, OR AT SUCH LATER TIME AND DATE TO WHICH THE OFFER Jeffrey E. Young, Longwood Fund, L.P., Longwood Fund, GP, LLC, and Richard Aldrich (collectively, “Defendants”)
MAY BE EXTENDED BY THE COMPANY (THE “EXPIRATION DATE”), UNLESS WITHDRAWN.
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The Offer is not conditional upon any minimum number of Shares being properly deposited under the Offer. The Offer is, however, subject to other conditions as set forth in the for $15,000,000 in cash that, if approved, will resolve all claims in the Action.
Offer to Purchase.
Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of the Offer, the Company will determine a single price per Share (the “Purchase Price”), not less than C$62.00 and not more than A hearing will be held on July 26, 2022, at 2:45 p.m., before the Honorable Indira Talwani either in person at the
C$78.00 per Share (in increments of C$0.25 per Share), that the Company will pay for Shares properly tendered to and not properly withdrawn from the Offer, taking into account United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse, 1 Courthouse
the Auction Prices and the number of Shares deposited pursuant to Auction Tenders and Purchase Price Tenders. The Purchase Price will be the lowest price that enables the Way, Boston, MA 02210, or by telephone or video conference (at the discretion of the Court) to, among other things:
Company to purchase that number of Shares pursuant to valid Auction Tenders and Purchase Price Tenders having an aggregate purchase price not to exceed an amount (the
“Auction Tender Limit Amount”) equal to (i) C$2,500,000,000 less (ii) the product of (A) C$2,500,000,000 and (B) a fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate number of (i) determine whether the proposed Settlement on the terms and conditions provided for in the Stipulation and
Shares owned by shareholders making valid Proportionate Tenders, and the denominator of which is the aggregate number of Shares outstanding at the time of the Expiration Date. Agreement of Settlement dated March 4, 2022 (the “Stipulation”) is fair, reasonable, and adequate to the Class, and
All Shares the Company purchases in the Offer will be acquired at the same purchase price regardless of whether any shareholder tenders at a lower price. Only Shares properly should be finally approved by the Court; (ii) determine whether the Action should be dismissed with prejudice against
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tendered at prices at or below the Purchase Price and not properly withdrawn will be purchased. However, because of “odd lot” priority and proration described in the Offer to
Purchase, the Company may not purchase all of the Shares tendered at or below the Purchase Price if the aggregate purchase price for Shares validly tendered and not withdrawn Defendants, and the Releases specified and described in the Stipulation and the Settlement Notice should be granted;
pursuant to Auction Tenders at Auction Prices at or below the Purchase Price and Purchase Price Tenders (the “Auction Tender Purchase Amount”) is greater than the Auction (iii) determine whether the proposed Plan of Allocation should be approved as fair and reasonable; (iv) determine
Tender Limit Amount. Shares not purchased in the Offer will be recredited or returned to the depositing shareholders at the Company’s expense promptly after the Expiration Date whether Lead Counsel’s motion for attorneys’ fees and Litigation Expenses (including an award to the Lead Plaintiff)
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of the Offer. The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the purchase price range per Share and to increase or decrease the value of Shares sought in the
Offer, subject to applicable law. should be approved; and (v) consider any other matters that may properly be brought before the Court in connection
As of May 2, 2022, there were 669,143,714 Shares issued and outstanding. At the maximum purchase price of C$78.00 per Share, the Company could purchase 32,051,282 Shares with the Settlement.
if the Offer is fully subscribed, which would represent approximately 4.8% of the issued and outstanding Shares as of May 2, 2022. At the minimum purchase price of C$62.00 per
Share, the Company could purchase 40,322,580 Shares if the Offer is fully subscribed, which would represent approximately 6% of the issued and outstanding Shares as of May 2, If you are a member of the Class, your rights will be affected by the Settlement, and you may be entitled to share
2022. The Shares are listed and posted for trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”) under the symbol “IMO” and have unlisted trading privileges on the NYSE American in the Net Settlement Fund. If you have not yet received the full printed Notice of (I) Proposed Settlement and Plan of
LLC (“NYSE American”) under the symbol “IMO”. Shareholders are urged to obtain current market quotations for the Shares before deciding whether and at what purchase price
or purchase prices to tender their Shares. Allocation; (II) Settlement Hearing; and (III) Motion for Attorneys’Fees and Litigation Expenses (the “Settlement Notice”)
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The Company expressly reserves the right, in its sole discretion, at any time and from time to time, to extend the period of time during which the Offer is open or to vary the terms and the Proof of Claim and Release Form (the “Claim Form”), you may obtain copies of these documents by contacting
and conditions of the Offer by giving written notice, or oral notice to be confirmed in writing, of extension or variation to Computershare Investor Services, Inc., the depositary the Claims Administrator at OvaScience Securities Litigation, c/o Gilardi & Co. LLC, P.O. Box 43312, Providence, RI
for the Offer (the “Depositary”), and by causing the Depositary to provide to all shareholders, where required by law, as soon as practicable thereafter, a copy of the notice in the 02940-3312, 1-866-757-7818, [email protected]. Copies of the Settlement Notice and Claim
manner set forth in the Offer to Purchase. Promptly after giving notice of an extension or variation to the Depositary, but, in the case of an extension, no later than 9:00 A.M.,
Calgary time, on the next Business Day (defined herein as any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, a statutory holiday in Calgary, Alberta or Toronto, Ontario and a United States Form can also be downloaded from the website for the Action, www.OvaScienceSecuritiesLitigation.com.
federal holiday) following the last previously scheduled or announced Expiration Date, the Company will make a public announcement of the extension or variation and provide or
cause to be provided notice of such extension or variation to the TSX, NYSE American and the applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities. If you are a Class Member, in order to be eligible to receive a payment under the proposed Settlement,
The Offer will expire at 5:00 P.M., Calgary time, on June 10, 2022, unless the Company exercises its right, in its sole discretion, to extend the period of time during which the you must submit a Claim Form postmarked (if mailed), or online through the Settlement website,
Offer will remain open. Beneficial owners should be aware that their broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee may establish its own earlier deadlines for www.OvaScienceSecuritiesLitigation.com, no later than August 22, 2022. If you are a Class Member and do
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participation in the Offer. Accordingly, beneficial owners wishing to participate in the Offer should contact their broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee
as soon as possible in order to determine the times by which such owner must take action in order to participate in the Offer. not submit a proper Claim Form, you will not be eligible to share in the distribution of the net proceeds of the
In accordance with the instructions to the Letter of Transmittal, shareholders wishing to tender Shares must indicate whether he or she tenders Shares pursuant to an Auction Settlement, but you will nevertheless be bound by any judgments or orders entered by the Court in the Action.
Tender, a Purchase Price Tender or a Proportionate Tender. If electing to tender his or her Shares pursuant to an Auction Tender, the tendering shareholder must specify the number
of Shares that it wishes to sell and the price, not greater than C$78.00 nor less than C$62.00 per Share, at which he or she is willing to sell his or her Shares to the Company in If you are a Class Member that did not previously request exclusion from the Class in response to the Notice of
the Offer. All Shares tendered by a shareholder who fails to specify any Auction Tender price for its Shares, or fails to indicate that he or she has tendered its shares pursuant to a Pendency of Class Action, and wish to exclude yourself from the Class, you must submit a written request for exclusion
Purchase Price Tender or a Proportionate Tender, will be considered to have been tendered pursuant to a Purchase Price Tender. A shareholder who makes an invalid Proportionate in accordance with the requirements set by the Court and the instructions set forth in the Settlement Notice so that it is
Tender, including by tendering an insufficient number of Shares, will be deemed to have made a Purchase Price Tender. Shareholders wishing to tender Shares must follow the
procedures set forth in the Offer to Purchase, Issuer Bid Circular and in the related Letter of Transmittal (and, if applicable, the Notice of Guaranteed Delivery). postmarked no later than July 5, 2022. If you properly exclude yourself from the Class, you will not be bound by any
The Purchase Price will be payable in Canadian dollars; however, shareholders may elect to receive the Purchase Price in United States dollars as described in the Offer. The risk of judgments or orders entered by the Court, whether favorable or unfavorable, and you will not be able to share in the
any fluctuation in exchange rates, including risks relating to the particular date and time at which funds are converted, will be borne solely by the shareholder wishing to receive distribution of the Net Settlement Fund.
payment in United States dollars.
If the Auction Tender Purchase Amount is less than or equal to the Auction Tender Limit Amount, the Company will purchase at the Purchase Price all Shares so tendered pursuant to Any objections to the proposed Settlement, the proposed Plan of Allocation, and/or Lead Counsel’s application for
Auction Tenders at or below the Purchase Price and Purchase Price Tenders. If the Auction Tender Purchase Amount is greater than the Auction Tender Limit Amount, the Company attorneys’ fees and expenses, must be filed with the Court and delivered to Lead Counsel and counsel for Defendants
will purchase a portion of the Shares so tendered pursuant to Auction Tenders at or below the Purchase Price and Purchase Price Tenders, as follows:
• first, the Company will purchase all Shares tendered at or below the Purchase Price by shareholders who own fewer than 100 Shares (the “Odd Lot Holders”) at
such that they are received no later than July 5, 2022, in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Settlement
the Purchase Price; and Notice.
• second, the Company will purchase at the Purchase Price on a pro rata basis that portion of the Shares tendered pursuant to Auction Tenders at or below the
Purchase Price and Purchase Price Tenders having an aggregate purchase price, based on the Purchase Price, equal to (A) the Auction Tender Limit Amount, Please do not contact the Court, the Clerk’s office, OvaScience, any other Defendants in the Action, or their
less (B) the aggregate amount paid by the Company for Shares tendered by Odd Lot Holders. Regardless of proration, the Company will always purchase at the counsel regarding this notice. All questions about this notice, the proposed Settlement, or your eligibility to
Purchase Price, payable in cash (subject to applicable withholding taxes, if any), a number of Shares from shareholders making valid Proportionate Tenders that participate in the Settlement should be directed to the Claims Administrator or Lead Counsel.
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results in such tendering shareholders maintaining their respective proportionate Share ownership in the Company following completion of the Offer (subject
to nominal differences due to the quantity of Shares purchased from such shareholders being rounded down to the nearest whole number of Shares to avoid the
purchase of fractional Shares). Requests for the Settlement Notice and Claim Form should be made to:
Payment for Shares accepted for payment pursuant to the Offer will be made only after timely receipt by the Depositary of (i) the share certificates for all Shares proposed to
be taken up in proper form for transfer, together with a properly completed and duly executed Letter of Transmittal (or a manually executed photocopy thereof) or, in the case
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signatures that are guaranteed if so required in accordance with the Letter of Transmittal, and (ii) any other documents required by the Letter of Transmittal. P.O. Box 43312
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MARKETS
Bitcoin
And Other
Treasury Bond Selloff Intensifies
Yield on benchmark lative investments such as 10-year U.S. Treasury yield Investors “are calling the trading solutions at Wallach-
2.75
sentially, she said, they are
“saying inflation is a problem
so [the] Fed will need to hike
bonds and into less-risky forms
of debt. The SPDR Portfolio
Long Term Corporate Bond
BY PAUL VIGNA BY SAM GOLDFARB across the economy. They also more and kill the economy,” ETF slid 2.7%, its worst one-
can hurt demand for riskier though she added she wasn’t day decline since the pan-
Cryptocurrency prices slid A new burst of selling in stocks by reducing the value 2.50 sure why the selling was so demic-fueled market selloff on
Thursday along with major bonds pushed the 10-year Trea- that investors place on their fu- concentrated on Thursday. March 19, 2020. The iShares
stock-market indexes. sury yield well above 3% Thurs- ture earnings. It already has been a very High Yield Bond Factor ETF
Bitcoin fell to $36,431.57 at 5 day, a day after Federal Re- On Wednesday, investors got 2.25 hard 2022 for bond investors. shed 1.9%, its worst one-day
p.m. ET, down 8.4% from serve Chairman Jerome Powell a rare reprieve when Mr. Pow- The Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate decline since June 11, 2020.
Wednesday, according to Dow had seemed to calm markets by ell helped lift both stock and 2.00 bond index—largely U.S. Trea- Some investors cautioned
Jones Market Data. Ethereum playing down the chances of a bond prices by saying officials surys, highly rated corporate against reading too much into
fell 6.4% to $2,754.37. supersize interest-rate increase weren’t giving serious consid- bonds and mortgage-backed se- Thursday’s yield jump. Early in
Of the top 30 cryptocurren- in the coming months. eration to a rate increase of 1.75 curities—had returned minus the day, several analysts said
cies listed by CoinDesk, 29 were Treasury yields, which rise three-quarters of a percentage 9.4% this year as of Wednesday. the increase in Treasury yields
down on the day. Apart from a when bond prices fall, started point, after the central bank 1.50 On Thursday, the yield on could at least partially be as-
brief selloff in January, bitcoin’s climbing early in the U.S. trad- had just lifted rates a half the benchmark 10-year U.S. cribed to a lbatch of new cor-
Jan. 2022 March May
price hasn’t been this low since ing session and then kept on point. Treasury note settled at porate-bond sales that were
last July, when it traded as low going—taking on their own On Thursday, though, some Source: Dow Jones Market Data 3.066%, its highest close since announced in the morning.
as $29,000. The largest crypto- momentum and contributing to investors and analysts empha- November 2018, up from Large, sudden moves in bond
currency is now down about a sharp decline in stocks, which sized that despite Mr. Powell’s meetings. A few said investors 2.914% Wednesday. The yield prices also are often exacer-
47% from its November record had rallied earlier in the week. comments, inflation is still run- are now even more worried on the 30-year bond climbed bated by technical factors in-
high of $68,991. The move marked the latest ning extremely hot and the Fed that the central bank wouldn’t even further, logging its big- cluding hedge funds being
Investors have been unwind- leg of a monthslong slide that is still expected to raise its do enough in the near term to gest one-day increase in more forced to close out bets as
ing their most speculative bets has dragged down a swath of benchmark federal-funds rate control inflation and would than two years to 3.159%. yields cross certain thresholds.
as the Federal Reserve has other assets, from relatively by half a percentage point at have to raise rates even higher As the bond rout deepened, —Akane Otani contributed
moved to end its ultralow-inter- safe corporate bonds to specu- each of its next two policy over the longer term. Mohit Bajaj, director of ETF to this article.
est-rate policies. On Wednesday,
the central bank announced a
half-point rate increase. Fed
Chairman Jerome Powell said
there may be half-point rate in-
Dividends Another reason dividend-
paying stocks are doing so
well?
creases in the summer months,
but that officials aren’t consid-
ering a three-fourths of a per-
Draw the
It has nothing to do with
dividends them-
selves.Many dividend payers
centage point increase. That
drove stocks higher on Wednes-
day, but they gave back those
Investors are energy companies, whose
shares have jumped this year
as crude prices have taken off.
.
gains on Thursday, with the Oil-and-gas companies, for
Nasdaq Composite down 5%. Continued from page B1 instance, make up around 7.4%
ly
Over the past two years, economic surge but because of the Vanguard High Divi-
more professional traders have accelerating inflation is forc- dend ETF, said Jack Ablin,
found their way into crypto ing the Federal Reserve to act chief investment officer and
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Com- into shares of big dividend After a good run, some in-
l
posite Index has fallen more payers, which promise to de- vestors who had put money in
e
al a
than 21% this year, while bitcoin liver a steady stream of cash dividend-paying stocks say
is also down 21%. Thursday’s in the near term. they are now looking for bar-
selloff comes on top of what A bonus? Many dividend The rise in stock prices of energy companies has given a lift to the dividend-paying sector. gains elsewhere.
ci on
was a bad April for crypto payers are in industries like The market reversal has
prices as well. Bitcoin’s market utilities, telecommunications fallen this year. For years, in- which includes technology- the high-dividend players has gone so far that Megan Horne-
value fell 17% to $716 billion, ac- and consumer staples, which vestors had piled into shares driven companies like Netflix been the ‘nowhere to hide’ man, chief investment officer
cording to research firm Cryp- consumers tend to rely on of fast-growing companies, Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Face- narrative in the markets this at Verdence Capital Advisors,
toCompare. With Thursday’s year round, regardless of the wagering the premium they book parent Meta Platforms year,” said Art Hogan, chief said the firm is no longer
er s
selloff, bitcoin’s total market economic environment. paid for them would be justi- Inc., is down 24%. market strategist at National looking to shift more money
value has fallen to about $690 That has made them espe- fied by their better-than-aver- “Part of the popularity of Securities Corp. into the bet.
m er
100
Two HSBCs with different constituencies might find life easier, but political land mines would remain 80
60
HSBC, Europe’s most valuable to appease Hong Kong or mainland was especially irked, according to a tions breaching such sanctions—or,
bank, makes most of its money in Chinese authorities, for example by Financial Times report citing anony- potentially, future sanctions on 40
Asia but is headquartered in the expressing support for Hong Kong’s mous sources, by the dividend cut China in the event of an invasion of
U.K. Now its largest shareholder, draconian national security law in forced on HSBC during the pan- Taiwan—would risk being cut off 20
China’s Ping An Insurance, is push- 2020, it has run afoul of Western demic by British regulators. A sepa- from the dollar-payments system by
ing for strong measures to rectify politicians. When it cooperated with rate Asia-focused business head- U.S. regulators. 0
this unwieldy arrangement—includ- the U.S. investigation of Huawei for quartered in Hong Kong might have And while some recent events 2015 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22
ing a potential spinoff of the Asian sanctions-busting, Chinese state me- taken a different tack, given the might chip away at the dollar’s
business. dia went on the attack. pandemic’s less-devastating toll on dominance—i.e. Western moves to Source: the company
HSBC is involved in a major re- An arrangement less firmly in the most large East Asian economies freeze Russian reserve assets—oth-
structuring effort to tilt its business
further toward Asia, which ac-
counted for 65% of pretax profits in
no-man’s-land between West and
East—or with different, separate po-
sitions on opposite sides of the
and their different political constitu-
encies.
Regarding the largest, hairiest el-
ers could help cement it further.
Weaker demand growth for yuan-
denominated assets over the next
Shopify’s
Pain Comes
2021. Slow progress toward this trenches—thus has a certain logic. ephant in the room, though—U.S. several years seems likely as U.S.
goal—and a share price that remains But if the goal is to insulate a Hong and European sanctions enforce- bond yields soar, Chinese growth
mired below prepandemic levels, in Kong-headquartered Asian HSBC ment—a separate Asian business faces rising cyclical and structural
Long Before
contrast to some sizable Asian rivals from Western political risk, a split wouldn’t provide much cover. headwinds and China’s central bank
like Singapore’s DBS, might be one would be a partial solution at best HSBC’s massive trade-finance busi- acts to support its economy.
factor spurring demands for more and would do little to protect the ness and other cross-border opera- Two different HSBCs, both more
Any Gain
radical action from Ping An, which new company from the thorniest is- tions remain heavily dependent on directly beholden to different politi-
owns about 8% of the company. sues involving current and possible access to the global dollar system. cal constituencies, might find it eas-
Lurking in the background, future U.S. sanctions. Western governments have re- ier to please some shareholders and
though, is geopolitics: As relations A split, if it does eventually mate- sponded to Russia’s invasion of defuse public-relations disasters of
between China and Western democ- rialize, might help with some of the Ukraine by imposing tough restric- the more moderate variety. The big-
racies have deteriorated, HSBC in- more prosaic or small-scale regula- tions on trade, including on high- gest political risks, however, would
creasingly has found itself in the tory issues the bank’s contorted technology exports and imports of remain. Firm invests heavily in
crossfire. When the bank has acted East-West structure creates. Ping An Russian oil. Any financial institu- —Nathaniel Taplin an e-commerce slump
.
The Canadian e-commerce up-
start unveiled a plan this year to
ly
build up its own logistics network
to help its merchant partners better
Shell’s messaging that the en- compete against Amazon.com. That
ergy industry faces highly uncer-
tain times seems aimed at politi-
cians and consumers. But it is
getting through more clearly to in-
on plan involved a massive boost to its
annual capital expenditures. The
next step was unveiled Thursday as
part of Shopify’s first-quarter re-
vestors. sults—the $2.1 billion acquisition of
us ,
company generate record net sition was the $450 million pickup
profit and $14.8 billion in cash of 6 River Systems in 2019.
flow from operations in the first Shopify’s ambitions are running
ci on
BEN STANSALL/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
cade, mostly in low-carbon energy. For Shopify, that slump has led
Chief Executive Ben van Beurden first-quarter revenue growth to
also sought to dampen expecta- High commodity prices and war-linked volatility helped the company generate record profit in the first quarter. slow to 22% year over year to $1.2
tions about the company’s future billion. That was about 3% shy of
performance. Shell’s quarterly cash flow from operations tainty, but most factors are tail- Wall Street’s forecasts and its slow-
co Fo
prices at the pump and broader 8 politicians to drill more. It all adds Shopify’s share price thus slid
cost inflation. So far, Boris John- up to an uncertain and volatile more than 17% Thursday morning
6
son’s Conservative government has outlook, but on balance one following the results, and ended
resisted calls from opposition par- 4 skewed toward tight markets and down more than 14%—a notable
no
ties for a one-off levy, but the Brit- 2 relatively high prices. drop for a stock already down 65%
ish prime minister is given to That should be good news for for the year. Like other companies
pleasing crowds and there are 0 TotalEnergies BP Shell Exxon Mobil Chevron
the sector, but investors aren’t whose business exploded early in
precedents for this type of tax in 2010 ’20 2010 ’20 2010 ’20 2010 ’20 2010 ’20 bullish. Shell shares trade at an the pandemic, Shopify’s past few
the U.K. *Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization enterprise value of 3.7 times earn- quarters have faced challenging
Mr. van Beurden is right that Sources: S&P Capital IQ (cash flow); FactSet (value to Ebitda) ings before interest, tax, deprecia- growth comparisons. But Shopify
the outlook is foggy. The war in tion and amortization—at the bot- also has a unique challenge trying to
Ukraine has prompted escalating and gas are shifting as Europe two wild cards: Covid-related lock- tom end of the historic range. help its merchant partners compete
sanctions on Russia, most recently scrambles to wean itself off Rus- downs in China, which can greatly Investors seem to agree with Mr. against Amazon’s logistics might
including a possible EU ban on its sian fuels. Energy security has affect demand, and the outside van Beurden that current profit with a fraction of the resources. So
oil. There is the prospect of retali- shot up the public agenda, causing chance that OPEC increases sup- levels are unsustainable. If only he the company’s plan to build up a
ation from Moscow. Whatever hap- some to rethink the pace of the ply. could get the message out to the warehouse network to enable deliv-
pens, global supply lines for oil energy transition. There are also That is a great deal of uncer- public. —Rochelle Toplensky ery to more than 90% of the U.S.
population in two days or less made
some sense, even given the costs.
But Amazon now offers same-
day delivery in many major mar-
Beer Flexes Pricing Muscle Despite Underdog Status kets. And the tech giant just went
through a massive expansion of its
already massive operation; Chief
Executive Andy Jassy said in Ama-
Beer’s pricing muscles may not shares in global distillers Diageo, also done a slightly better job of Justice Department examine how zon’s annual shareholder letter last
be as big as liquor’s but they are Campari, Pernod Ricard and increasing the “mix” component of acquisitions of craft beers by ma- month that the company doubled
limber. Rémy Cointreau today trade at a their growth as they focused on jor brewers have affected prices the size of its fulfillment network in
Budweiser’s owner Anheuser- 60% premium on average to big selling more of their premium and innovation in the U.S. beer the past 24 months. That expan-
Busch InBev is the latest beer brewers, up from 30% just before brands. market. sion, along with the current e-com-
company to report better-than-ex- the Covid-19 crisis began. Liquor companies in the U.S. Granted, brewers may not al- merce slump, has left Amazon with
pected results for the first three A booming at-home cocktail have been taking market share ways be in such a strong position excess capacity of its own that it is
months of 2022, after strong sales trend in the U.S. during lockdowns from beer and wine for years, so as in the first quarter. The Euro- racing to fully use.
from Heineken and Carlsberg. swayed shareholders’ tastes early have got by just fine selling in pean on-trade roared back to life That won’t make things any eas-
Brewers’ pricing power has in the crisis, but pricing power is higher volumes. The result is that as the pandemic receded and ier for Shopify. The company
been good considering consumers increasingly important as inflation even though liquor companies drinkers returned to bars and res- doesn’t give precise revenue fore-
are being pinched on all sides by takes hold. In theory, the expen- probably do have a lot of untapped taurants. casts, but Tyler Radke of Citigroup
inflation. AB InBev, the world’s sive liquor brands preferred by pricing power, distributors and re- Consumers’ willingness to pay noted Shopify’s latest report pro-
biggest beer company, raised wealthy consumers should be able tailers are less used to taking con- more for drinks consumed outside jected new merchants joining its
prices almost 8% in the three to charge more without hurting sistent increases from them, espe- the home helps all alcohol compa- platform this year to be “at a level
months through March compared demand. cially for more commoditized, non- nies, especially those like Heineken comparable to that in 2021”—a
with the same period last year, Brewers may turn out to be bet- aged spirits like gin or vodka. that have large exposure to the re- change from its prediction three
and still managed to sell 2.8% ter at raising prices little and of- The beer industry is more con- gion’s nightlife venues. months ago for a faster rate of new
more beer, the company reported ten, however. As beer volumes centrated world-wide—a potential Brewers have high fixed costs so merchant growth this year. The e-
Thursday. No. 2 player Heineken have for years been weak in ma- advantage in negotiations with re- need to increase what they charge commerce market is unlikely to get
squeezed 18% more revenue from ture markets, pricing has long tailers. The top five players in the to protect their profit margins better soon. Amazon last week pro-
each liter of beer it sold over the been an important component of beer business control 54% market from input cost inflation. So far, jected its third consecutive quarter
same period by charging more and beer brands’ growth. Data from share globally, compared with 25% the signs are positive. Beer may be of single-digit sales growth in the
promoting its premium brands. Bernstein shows that between for the five biggest liquor busi- less fashionable than cocktails June quarter, which would be its
Investors have shown a clear 2010 and 2019, brewers raised nesses, Euromonitor data shows. among investors, but price in- first such run ever. Shopify needs
preference for liquor stocks since prices by 1.7% annually in the U.S., The U.S. beer business is so con- creases are going down fine with to get a lot more clicks when there
the beginning of the pandemic. As almost double the rate of liquor solidated that the U.S. Treasury in drinkers. are fewer to be had.
a multiple of projected earnings, companies. Beer businesses have February recommended that the —Carol Ryan —Dan Gallagher
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HOMES | MARKETS | PEOPLE | REDOS | SALES THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Friday, May 6, 2022 | M1
Welcome to
Hollywoodland.
Please Go Away.
Below the Hollywood sign, a once ‘private, secret’
L.A. enclave has become a home-buying hotspot
and overrun by tourists. Some residents fight back.
I
t’s 9 a.m. on an April Sun- and I feel fortunate to live here,
day, and Eric Smith is drink- but the genie is out of the bottle,”
ing tea, looking out over Los says the 50-year-old documentary
Angeles from the balcony of director and photographer. He
his two-level, midcentury bought his 1,527-square-foot, two-
modern in a tree-filled, mountain- bedroom house—where Peter Tork
ous neighborhood called Holly- of the Monkees lived in the 1960s,
woodland—just a few hundred feet in 2003 for $615,000 because it
below the iconic Hollywood sign. was an oasis of nature, yet still
The only moving object on the close to all the Hollywood studios.
street is a coyote, skulking Hollywoodland began as a
9
around the corner. 1920s real-estate develop-
But he knows the ment, famously adver-
peace won’t last. tised with an enor-
homes have sold
Soon, hordes of tour- mous, lit-up
with a median price
ists following GPS to HOLLYWOODLAND sign
of $2.15 million
the sign will start clog- in the hills above it. (In
.
in 2022
ging the windy, narrow 1949, “Land” was
ly
thoroughfares. At the bot- dropped.) It was touted as
tom of the hill, there’s already a a place where buyers could es-
line, largely composed of teenage cape the stress and “dangerous
$615,000
Price paid in 2013
on girls, snaking down the sidewalk
outside the Beachwood Café, made
corners” of the city below without
forfeiting easy access to work.
famous by its mention in the Harry Prices for lots ranged from $2,500
Styles song “Falling.” to $55,000 ($42,000 to $924,000
us ,
$1.63*
The cliff-like, and seemingly un- in today’s dollars.)
buildable, small lot next to Mr. Restrictions stipulated that
l
e
Smith’s house was purchased for homes be designed with a Euro-
al a
*According to Zillow a big spec house there—something nean and Spanish allowed. Like
the neighborhood’s homeowner’s many developments at the time,
association can do little to stop. Please turn to page M8
er s
m er
m rp
co Fo
ADAM AMENGUAL FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (4); DAN SOLOMON (PALM SPRINGS)
Eric Smith, a
documentary
director and
photographer,
on his home’s
balcony in the
Hollywoodland
neighborhood.
n-
He bought the
1,527-square-
foot house
because it was
no
an oasis of
nature, yet still
close to all the
Hollywood
studios.
PRIVATE PROPERTIES
$170
prises four par-
cels and has ap-
proximately 600
feet of water MILLION
frontage on Bis- 600 ft. of
cayne Bay, ac- waterfront,
cording to list- 4 houses
ing agents Jill
Eber and Jill Hertzberg of Cold-
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In all, Dr. Pearce spent roughly to create the private park, but he
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$3.1 million for the four contigu- kept two homes on the other par-
ous properties. He purchased the cels. He used one for entertaining
first one for $550,000 in 1983, re- and staff. Around 2010, he reno-
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Total cost of the four properties in the 1980s: $3.1 million
cords show. He lived there for de-
cades, in a two-bedroom house
with a separate guesthouse. He
vated the other existing house
and lived there for several years.
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deal. International Realty had the list-
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$15.895 million for the property in to fame with
2020, records show. starring roles in
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cally resides in the three-car ga-
rage, which can be viewed
through a large picture window
that acts as one of the living room
walls.
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tage points of the home,” Mr. Please turn to page M5 table, can be seen from many other points throughout the house, says Mr. Jackson.
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Conversation pit
how over-the-top it is,” Mr. Jack- The game room, above, includes
son says. pinball machines and custom-made
Fire pit with water feature: $50,000
“On the weekends, when I’m furniture. The bedroom, below, has
home, I just kind of walk around mirrored walls.
the house and check it out.” Mr.
Jackson recognizes that his Tron- and fashion,” she says. “So every-
esque build may not be for every- Outdoor dining space thing he designed, I loved.”
one. “I’m an eccentric guy,” he She says, however, that she
says. could use a little more closet
Mr. Jackson says that friends space.
and family also enjoy the home’s “I really wasn’t planning on
spirited feel, as well as what the getting this out of control and
couple refers to as its “conversa- this ambitious in a design,” Mr.
tion pit,” a sunken fire pit and Jackson says. “If I had known I
water feature in the home’s back- was going to end up spending this
yard that serves as a gathering kind of money building a house
space. this big and then doing all these
Although many homes in Dallas design features, I would’ve bought
have pools, the Jacksons made the a bigger lot.”
decision not to add one.
“Everybody’s always just stand-
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socializing, and nobody really gets
in the pool,” Mr. Jackson says.
“We put the fireplace in there, we
put pillows out there and stuff.
People use it.”
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home, they say, are easier to live
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Although the dream of stepping
into the future was initially Mr.
Jackson’s, Mrs. Jackson says that
she, too, shares his aesthetic.
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1950s cabin-style bungalow that from her own architectural prac- floating,” she adds. And the direct area, above.
she tore down. She then spent tice, but she is embarking on a views over the sound, which leads Left, the
$4.7 million to build her mansion, new career as an artist. She has down to the Strait of Georgia and reflecting pond
working with Vancouver’s McLeod equipped the house with a subter- the long coast of Vancouver Is- is also for
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Bovell, a design studio specializ- ranean ceramics studio and a kiln. land, gives frequent glimpses of swimming.
ing in upscale residential proj- She can otherwise fire up her whales, seals and cruising eagles. Below, one of
ects. imagination in a separate painting The tea room is also where Ms. two kitchens.
Ms. Wang occasionally shares studio, a bamboo courtyard and a Wang plays the guqin, the tradi- The other one
the eight-bedroom home with her Zen-inspired tea room that proj- tional lyre-like Chinese instru- has five wok
Reflecting pool/hot tub: $217,800
24-year-old daughter, Xin Yue ects out over the reflecting pond. ment. The room opens to the stations.
Wang, who now resides in New In designing the tea room, pond, which the Wangs also use
York City, where she is training to which cost about $21,000, the as a swimming pool in warm
be an architect. The heart of the goal of McLeod Bovell was to give weather. Ms. Wang spent
angular, two-story structure is the the space a connection to nature $218,000 on the pond and an ad-
jacent sunken hot tub.
Greater Vancouver is located in
a coastal rainforest zone that, de-
spite mild temperatures, can
wreak havoc on housing stock.
Ms. Bovell and her design partner
Matthew McLeod addressed the
challenging conditions by using
the tinted fiber-cement cladding,
which cost nearly $260,000. The
price was significantly more than
the local softwoods typically used
to clad homes here, says Mr.
McLeod, but the Swiss import is
“much more durable, and largely
maintenance free.”
For a sunken outdoor seating
area and other external spots,
Swiss composite cladding: $295,600 The open, Western-style kitchen: $148,000
such as the garage doors, the de-
signers chose high-performance
Retired China- modified wood imported from the five wok stations and enhanced ble-height space near the en-
born architect Netherlands, which is suitable for ventilation. Ms. Wang spent trance, where she hung a custom
Min Xia Wang, lining canals. $148,000 on the Western kitchen, light fixture from Bocci, a high-
52, moved to Back inside the house, the de- which includes a breakfast bar end company based in Vancouver.
Vancouver in sign duo used feng shui principles and decorative oak paneling, and Made up of some 30 pendulous
2011. She built to plan the entryway, carefully po- $58,400 on the closed-off cooking light sources, the piece cost
her eight- sitioning the staircase out of view space, which has a stove imported $15,600. Poured board-form con-
bedroom home of the main door, which the Chi- from China. crete and rough-hewn concrete
on a cliff that nese system views as more har- When it came time to furnish panels decorate numerous areas
overlooks the monious. her mansion, Ms. Wang looked to in the house, both upstairs and
mouth of They created two separate Italy, creating the main sitting down.
British kitchens—a wide-open Western area out of a suite of furniture “Like most architects,” says the
Columbia’s kitchen with Gaggenau appliances from Minotti. younger Ms. Wang, of both herself
Howe Sound. that the Wangs use for baking, Ms. Wang searched closer to and her mother, “We just love
and a rear Chinese kitchen with home to decorate a dramatic dou- concrete.”
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A vista of the Catskills, plus 50 acres and lots of space for home offices, this Dutchess County dream home is for sale through Houlihan Lawrence (top). An elegant country lifestyle
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not far from New York awaits the family who purchases this $3.9 million house in Mendham, New Jersey, listed by Turpin Realtors (bottom left). This estate in Far Hills, New Jersey,
has over 10 acres and a history that stretches back to the 19th century. It’s been restored to its previous grandeur and is for sale by Turpin Realtors (bottom right).
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John Turpin, president and broker of re- no longer works for them. Patrick Kirwan
he real estate markets cord for Turpin Realtors in Far Hills, New and his wife, Andi Henke, had moved into a
Jersey, explains, “For much of the 20th two-bedroom apartment on the Upper East
outside NewYork may be century, there was a metaphorical con- Side and planned to stay there for three to
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veyor belt moving buyers from the east, five years. “But in September 2020, we had
in Manhattan, toward the west into New a baby and having a newborn in an apart-
still reeling from the high Jersey.” First, to a commuter suburb, then
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pandemic buying, but one thing has COVID-19 interrupted that cycle, with found Chatham and fell in love with the
buyers of all ages fleeing cities and head- town. Coincidentally, some of Pat’s college
returned to normal — the profile of ing straight for suburban and rural areas. friends had already moved there.” Still feel-
Usually we see approximately 29% of the ing casual, they asked a realtor from Turpin
buyers in Larchmont, New York, com-
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Lucas Cowan, The Preserve’s real estate to-table restaurants and picturesque small
and membership sales executive, reports, towns. Because the area attracts so many
“Our members come from a wide demo- sophisticated people, local realtor Gladys
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graphic, from age 25 to their 80s, including Montgomery with William Pitt Sotheby’s
people from around the globe who have International Realty calls it “a cultural out-
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with its indoor and outdoor shooting ranges, including Tanglewood, the summer home
plus upland and tower hunting, fly-fishing of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Jacob’s
ponds, swimming pool and par-three golf Pillow Dance Festival; Shakespeare &
course, well before the pandemic, Cowan Company; and the Williamstown Theatre
says. “But when COVID-19 struck, we had Festival. The visual arts are represented in the
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Tips from top right now,” says Terry Boyle, a LandVest project man- broker with William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty,
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ager who handles high-end waterfront properties in found them a rental in Wilton. Two years later, she sold
brokers to help Rhode Island. “And every good broker has a list of six, them a house “that’s a perfect fit,” the buyer says.
eight, maybe even 10 qualified buyers.” Find a local realtor. If you don’t know a market,
you snag a home How can you become the prospective buyer who find a realtor who does. “You need a broker who keeps
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by Julie Bennett when a house hits the market? We asked a number meet prospective buyers when they like one of my list-
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of top brokers in the states and counties around New ings and contact me. It is all about establishing a solid
you’re particular — and, say, want an oceanfront is their extensive knowledge, including knowing what
today’s hot real estate market. So property with a dock in Jamestown — be particular,” properties have sold and whether a house is priced
Boyle says. “Let your broker know so you don’t waste too high,” says Debbie Doern, senior vice president of
many NewYork City families want time looking at something else.” sales for Houlihan Lawrence.
And if you don’t know what you want, spend time “Real estate is a collaborative business,” Boyle re-
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to move to the suburbs or more rural driving through target communities and research veals. “I reach out to other brokers all the time to let
towns and available homes online. “An out-of-state them know I have a well-qualified buyer looking for
areas that every house that comes buyer I worked with had no idea where he wanted to something specific. LandVest has offices all over New
be,” says Cindy Welch, a LandVest project manager in England, and if a buyer cares more about the house
on the market, from a four-bedroom the Berkshires. “One day, he’d ask me to send a listing than the location, I’m able to refer them to someone
in Connecticut, the next he wanted to see a house in in Maine, for example.”
Colonial in Rye to a 50-acre farm in Chatham, New York.” Be decisive. “If you’re not the first to make a bid,
Dutchess County, receives multiple If you are still unsure, forget about buying now and you can be too late in a matter of minutes,” Boyle says.
rent something first. “It’s scary to put an offer on a “It’s essential to have as few hurdles as possible, but
offers, usually above the asking price. house If you don’t have time to scope out neighbor- sometimes time zones and logistics are a challenge.
hoods first,” says one transplant, who moved his fam- A few mornings ago, I got a notice at 2 a.m. that a $3
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stantial properties,” she says. towns like Westport and Greenwich. “I am introduc- Wages went up astronomically and some small busi-
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“The pandemic accelerated our timeline,” says ing young families to neighboring communities like nesses had to close,” Jennings says.
Ashley McManus. “My husband Ryan and I were liv- Weston and Wilton,” she says. “If parents don’t have She believes the pandemic cycle is slowing down.
ing in the East Village with an 8-month-old son, and to commute into New York every day, towns farther People who had put off downsizing, because they
the walls were caving in on us. We’d created a make-
shift office for Ryan in our bedroom, by propping
up our coffee table between boxes. I was taking all
on from our train stations are doable.”
When one man and his family moved east from
Arizona, “We weren’t brave enough to buy a house
had nowhere else to go or because their adult chil-
dren had moved home during the pandemic, may be
ready to sell. “I believe a lot of inventory will come
my video calls in our bathroom, sitting on the edge sight unseen, so Cyd found us a house to rent for a on the market this summer,” she says.
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of the tub. The sink, with a pillow over it, was my year. We were patient, and in December she took us Turpin, too, is optimistic. “As robust as our mar-
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A mutual friend introduced them to Stern, who the family room on a cul-de-sac where our children around new listings lately, especially in towns fur-
showed them seven houses in Rye on the first day re- can ride their bikes and scooters.” ther west of the city. This is just the kind of breather
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altors could take prospective buyers on actual tours. “We never could have bought a house in a to- the market needs to remain healthy and move to-
“Since the market was changing so fast, we were tally different climate without her help,” he says. “In ward balance again.”
looking at forever homes, and by the end of the day Arizona, all anyone is concerned about is the air
we put in an offer on one,” McManus says. conditioning. Here, there are things like septic sys- Julie Bennett is a freelance writer specializing in
franchising, small business and lifestyle issues.
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North Haven, Maine | Amesbury Point | 3.09± Acres | 3,272 sq. ft. | deep water dock | $3,775,000 | Terry Sortwell • 207-236-3543 • [email protected]
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mesh cover,
but you
couldn’t see it.
It was the fall
and the pool
was com-
IN THE TRENCHES | AMY GAMERMAN pletely covered
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Has anyone ever fallen in was tired—he’d had a long
day at work—but they were
He was standing with his
back to the pool, maybe
this guy doesn’t panic, I
hope he can swim. The teen-
tried to explain without
making her husband look
a pool during a showing? loving it so far. The kids re- planning what he was going age daughter couldn’t stop like a fool. I totally blamed
SABINA DINESCU
Luxury real-estate agent,
Douglas Elliman Real Estate,
dogs. They were muscular
dogs, big and husky. One
was white, the other was
on ally liked it, especially when I
told them it was an ideal
house to have their friends
over and have parties.
to do with the house, who
knows. The sun was coming
down. It was dusky and re-
ally beautiful, with birds fly-
laughing, she was hysterical.
I’m like, “Are you OK? I’m so
sorry!”
He said, “Oh yes, I’m fine.”
the dog. Then I ran and got
him three or four towels,
and he dried off as best he
could. We eventually had to
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Coral Gables, Fla. black. They would bark and We walked onto the back- ing through. I made a joke, I think he was embarrassed. finish the showing. He had
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follow people around. Some yard and I’m highlighting the like, “I promise, I didn’t hire He got out of the pool drip- to take his shoes off and
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The listing was in Palmetto people find that annoying. parts I thought were the those birds!” ping wet, just sopping wet. leave them outside. He
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Bay, a huge house in the The buyer came after best. There was a really cool Then one of the dogs, the He was in his work clothes, squeezed the water out of
Mediterranean style on the work with his wife and their treehouse that came down big black one, comes walking not a full-blown suit but his socks and went through
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water, with lots of trees. two kids, a 10-year-old boy to a trampoline, so the kids over onto the pool deck. I slacks, dress shirt, nice belt. I the house barefoot.
There was a pool in the back and a teenage daughter. were looking at that, and the guess his nose touched the could tell his shoes were nice. They did make an offer,
with a covered patio and a They looked at the foyer, wife became preoccupied guy’s leg. He got super star- The wife eventually but it wasn’t the one the
pool deck. It’s a really beauti- then went straight to the with the amount of storage tled, took a step back and comes back and doesn’t un- seller went with. To this day,
ful home, one of my favor- kitchen, which has French under the patio stairs. The fell into the pool. derstand what happened be- I haven’t told the owner that
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ites to show, with the excep- doors that open onto the pa- husband seemed almost A million things were go- cause she was looking at the a buyer fell in the pool on
tion of the owner’s two tio. You could tell the guy mesmerized by the water. ing through my mind: I hope storage under the stairs. I her property.
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Deer Isle, Maine | Stonescape
North Haven, Maine | Amesbury Point | 3.09± Acres | 3,272 sq. ft. | deep water dock | $3,775,000 | Terry Sortwell • 207-236-3543 • [email protected]
South Dartmouth, MA | $2.95M | 475 Potomska Road | 6.35± Acres New Marlborough, MA | $1.495M | Cassilis Farm Estate | 20± Acres Rockport, ME | $2.795M | Rockport Harbor Views | 9,500 sq. ft.
Betsy Lawrence • 508-317-8669 • [email protected] Cindy Welch • 413-329-3999 • [email protected] Joseph Sortwell • 207-706-6294 • [email protected]
Lexington, MA | $8M | 85 & 87 Hancock Street | 3.3± Acres Southwest Harbor, ME | $2.9M | The View | 1.1± Acres Great Cranberry, Maine | $1,450,000 | Fish Point | 0.9± Acres
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Below the
Sign
Continued from page M1
deeds also restricted cove-
nants by race, allowing only
Caucasians.
The neighborhood is Linda Doe and her husband, real estate agent Crosby Doe, above, bought this 4,869-square-
somewhat more diverse now, foot castle-like Mediterranean in 1982. The house, which was built in 1927 and has no air
both in its population and its conditioning, is an ongoing project.
architecture, but it still has
an insular, removed feel. danger as a concern, since Sign every year, spending
Once home to A-list stars in- Hollywoodland is encircled approximately $4 billion
cluding Humphrey Bogart, by the roughly 4,000-acre while in L.A., according to
Madonna and the writer Al- Griffith Park. They argue Tourism Economics. Adam
dous Huxley, residents now that tourists drop lighted Burke, president and CEO
tend more toward behind- cigarettes despite “No Smok- of Los Angeles Tourism &
the-scenes creatives, like ing” signs posted by the city Convention Board says the
classical musicians and and the traffic means emer- Hollywood sign is key to
screenwriters, real-estate gency vehicles won’t be able the city’s economy. “It’s in-
agents and homeowners say. to get through the congested credibly important in at-
“It used to be overlooked streets. Some have suggested tracting visitors from
compared with the rest of erecting gates at the neigh- around the world,” he says.
.
Hollywood Hills. You had to borhood’s base or even mov- The core Hollywoodland
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know L.A. well enough to ing the sign. neighborhood begins
come and explore this
area,” says Greg Holcomb, a
real-estate agent with on “We, and the ani-
mals who live here,
have our lives at
23% Increase in
far north of Holly-
wood Boulevard, just
past stone gates
Douglas Elliman, whose stake,” says Linda median sales erected for the origi-
listing for a 2,083-square- Doe, who with her price since nal development, in
foot house got eight offers husband, real-estate 2020, to the portion of Beach-
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in a week, all over its agent Crosby Doe, $1.9 million wood Canyon that
$2.295 million asking price. bought a 4,869- stretches from West-
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picked up sharply since The house designed by Dino Williams, whose family built the Hollywoodland village. Mr. in 1927. Homes sold rectly below the sign.
2020, when the number of Williams’s daughter Alexa Williams still lives in the house. Ms. Doe says she in 2021, 9% Referred to as “above
homes sold jumped 60% and doesn’t want to build of the whole the gates” to demark
the median sales price in- walls on her property neighborhood it from the flatter,
creased 23%, to $1.9 million, because she wants to less affluent area
20
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homes sold in Hollywood- tried putting up “No Homes sold has about 110 vacant
land (compared with 20 in Trespassing” signs in 2019 lots and 580 homes,
2019)—about 9% of all the and chains, spending many storybook-
houses in the neighborhood. about $2,000. But one morn- style, with whimsical exteri-
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enclave, which is now not were gone, the chains cut, The original map from the
as secret and private as it she says. Hollywoodland development
used to be,” says Patricia Opponents of the re- planned for 1175 lots, but
Carroll of Hollywoodland strictions say some res- some of those lots were un-
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the way and knocking on say that’s not enough. They ened by the influx of cars. whether they live there family who built it. “We’re
doors to use bathrooms and argue the wildlife (includ- Residents also cite fire or not,” says Gerry Hans, hanging on. We’re good,”
president of the nonprofit says one of the scions, Greg-
organization Friends of ory Paul Williams.
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1923
Hollywoodland
opened
$4
$55,000 BILLION
Approximate amount the
Cost of the priciest
lots ($924,000 in 10 million tourists who
today’s dollars) visit the Hollywood sign
annually spend while
in L.A.
580
homes in the core
Hollywoodland
neighborhood
helicopters and sirens of res- band, Tim O’Brien, moved to “I think there would be “That was important to the bach is entitled to her opin- there’s a comprehensive plan
cue vehicles saving people Hollywoodland in 1980, buy- pitchforks if someone tried seller,’ she says. ion, but that “with 17-foot- to address the traffic, says
who get hurt trying to climb ing her three-bedroom, that,” he says. The seller, Fran Reichen- wide streets and almost no Leo Braudy, professor of
up to the sign. “It was fabu- 2,478-square-foot home for Naomi Rosestone, an bach, 70, whose husband, Bill sidewalks, it would be insane English and Art History at
lous then compared with $280,000, because it re- agent with Rodeo Realty, Reichenbach, bought the to compromise safety.” the University of Southern
how it sucks now,” says Ms. minded her of growing up in says she is sensitive to the house in 1982 for $210,000, “You knew the Holly- California, who wrote “The
Williams. rural Wisconsin. concern about disruption. says she will miss her neigh- wood sign was there when Hollywood Sign: Fantasy and
The Hollywood Home- The demand for property Her mission when recently bors—but her definition of you bought your house,” Reality of an American
owners Association is trying presents a dilemma for selling a three-bedroom, community often clashed says Ms. Reichenbach, who Icon.”
hard to retain a sense of some. Jon Ernst, 54, a mu- 2,271-square-foot 1927 with the HHA. While she moved to Fletcher, N.C., People will keep trekking
community. It’s hosting de- sician, bought a three-bed- Spanish-style house for agreed with the need for buying a house for what, up there because the sign, he
cades-old traditional events, room, 1,380-square-foot $400,00 over its $2.2 mil- more traffic support, bath- she says, was a third of the says, represents a quest for
such as marionette puppet Spanish-style house built in lion listing price, getting 11 rooms and security, she price they got when they self-enhancement, and the
shows and concerts with 1925 for $460,000 in 2000 offers in a few days on the didn’t like the sense of enti- sold their Hollywoodland fact that it’s on a steep hill
neighborhood musicians. A which he now rents, having market, was to sell it to tlement she heard in some of home. above a storybook-like
neighborhood cookbook has bought a bigger, 3,500- someone she believed the residents who wanted to The conflict between the neighborhood just reinforces
recipes from “citizens of square-foot, three-bedroom would “carry on the tradi- restrict access. Ms. O’Brien residents and the tourists that. “It’s the perfect image
Hollywoodland.” (One entry: a few doors away for $1.2 tions” of the community. responds that Ms. Reichen- will likely continue until of aspiration,” he says.
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would we move to? We love go to a developer, who
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this community,” says Chris- could build multiple
tine Mills O’Brien, president houses—something he says
of the HHA. She and her hus- the neighbors would fight.
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HOUSE CALL | TITUS WELLIVER One day, my dad asked what I
thought about most. I said acting.
He said that’s what I had to do. So
B
oth of my parents were was warm and nurturing. The tween our homes in Topanga, Ca-
artists. My father, Neil, homes where I spent the most lif., and our Connecticut farm-
was a well-known land- time growing up were in Philadel- house.
scape painter and my phia and, in my teens, our house I’m very happy. We’ve formed
mother, Norma, was a sought-af- near Bangor, Maine. Edgewell Street Productions and
ter fashion illustrator. I was In Philadelphia, my mother, are developing films and TV proj-
named after Rembrandt’s son and Norma, lived in a lovely three- ects. It’s wonderful to work with a
had to deal with every horrible story row house on St. Mark’s person you love and share ideas.
derivation at school. Square. I was close with my mom. Toward the end of my dad’s life
As a child, I spent much of my She worked for Ship’n Shore, a in 2005, I asked him what he
spare time in my parents’ art stu- women’s clothing company, and thought of my latest series of
dios, especially landscapes. He looked and said,
if I wanted to “They’re beautiful.” I said, “Re-
talk to them. ally?” He said, “Don’t be an ass.
I never Do you think I’d tell you they were
knew my par- good if they weren’t?” That was
ents as mar- all I needed from him.
ried. They —As told to Marc Myers
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: CHLOE AFTEL FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (2); TITUS WELLIVER (FAMILY PHOTO)
split up before Titus Welliver, above, at home in Topanga, Calif., with some of his
I was born but landscape paintings, and, left, at age 8 near his family home in Maine. Titus Welliver, 60, is an actor
lived near each whose films include “The Town,”
other in New family photographs. We all was it, I was hooked. “Gone Baby Gone,” “Argo” and
York and then crammed into a nearby guest- I attended Bennington College, “Transformers: Age of Extinction.”
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in Philadel- house. My stepsister was born where I majored in partying. At He is best known for his starring
ly
phia. When we soon after but died three months the end of the year, my grades role in Prime Video’s “Bosch”
were little, my later in 1976 from sudden infant were so bad the school urged me and in the new spinoff, “Bosch:
older brother, death syndrome. to take the next semester off. Legacy,” on Amazon Freevee.
Silas, and I al-
ternated weeks
with our father and mother.
Being in their studios allowed
on
drew the latest styles for New
York department-store ads. At
That fall I went off to Oak
Grove-Coburn, a boarding school
in Vassalboro, Maine. In October, I
received a call that Polly wasn’t
TITUS AT HOME
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me to watch the evolution of their night, she’d put us to bed and go well. She died four days later pentine or oil paint,
art from start to finish, and the on working until 1 a.m. from a staph infection.
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tireless work required to be an For elementary school, I had Those three losses were devas- Moved by Dad’s transported back to
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artist. attended Philadelphia’s St. Peter’s tating. What kept me from grow- praise? Yes, but also his studio.
When I was born, my dad School. But in rural Maine, I went ing dark was Oak Grove-Coburn, a motivated and encour-
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taught at Yale. Then when I was to a public school where the text- progressive place with wonderful, aged. Presence? I feel my
4, he was wooed by the University books were outdated by 15 years. nurturing teachers. dad whenever I step
of Pennsylvania to chair its gradu- It was two different worlds. When I was 14, my mom moved Still painting? Yes, I back to look at what
ate school of fine arts. We moved When I was 13 and living in to Boston, so I had a summer with have stand-alone stu- I’ve completed.
to West Philadelphia. Maine, my father’s studio burned her. She signed me up for classes dios at both houses.
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My father remarried, and I down along with all his paintings, at the city’s Actors Workshop. I Lesson? As with art, there are no
loved my stepmother, Polly. She some works by famous artists and went to the first class and that Dad reminder? When I smell tur- shortcuts with acting.
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FROM MY o one gives back like this bunch. they receive. We have been able to make Day Home Tour: Mark your calendars: This
PERSPECTIVE I’m proud to work alongside cash donations to area food banks and one is Saturday, May 7, and Sunday, May 8.
some of the most benevolent other helping organizations. This year, we Because we have agents who are the most
people in North Texas: our will be giving to Tarrant Area Food Bank famous experts on this special area of Dallas,
agents and staff. On their own, they give to and OurCalling, a local outreach group we love being a part of this equally famous
charities, volunteer in their communities that helps with everything from addiction home tour, which benefits the district. This
and serve on boards of all kinds. recovery to mentoring. year, come see six historic homes and one
Together, they do even more. On UP All Night: This is a very fun annual great garden; the details are at sahd.org.
behalf of our brokerage, they work all year overnight campout (tents and all) for kids This is just a sampling of the support
on everything from clothing drives to food and parents, which benefits University Park and sponsorships that our agents and our
drives to the Salvation Army Angel Tree Elementary School. brokerage are able to give to area charities
gift drive. In recognition — and awe — of Our Fort Worth contemporary art and folks who deserve some love. That’s
this immense spirit, I want to rattle off just show and sale: For this inaugural agent- why we call our unique program Love
some of the people and charities who have organized event, we partnered with Fort Your Neighbors. Come read about it at
recently benefited from our agents’ time and Worth gallery Artspace111 to promote works briggsfreeman.com/love.
ROBBIE BRIGGS In fact, I’d love for you to be a part of it.
hard-earned money. of several contemporary Texas artists, all in a
CEO Love Your Neighbors: This is our modernist space: our own Fort Worth office.
Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s WHAT THE CEO SAYS
own year-round program for giving back, A portion of the proceeds benefited Saving
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[email protected] a percentage of every sales commission Swiss Avenue Historic District Mother’s always on briggsfreeman.com/blog
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