New online auction aims to boost date sales for UAE farmers – Arabianbusiness
Highlights:
– The company said eZad makes buying and selling of dates faster, more transparent and profitable for all stakeholders. It added that the platform is committed to helping farmers grow better dates while enabling wholesale date buyers to grow their business.
– The auction listing will be made available on eZad to buyers around the world for 48 hours.
– Alan Smith, CEO, Agthia Group said “The tailor-made platform addresses the pain points of all stakeholders involved across the value chain. We have always put our farmers and customers at the heart of all that we do, and we will continue to do so to ensure fair economic returns and benefits for all.”
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How Much Do Wall Street Bankers Make 2021? Entry-Level Positions Hit Six Figures – Bloomberg — www.bloomberg.com
Highlights:
– In the span of a few months, the sticker price for a freshly minted college graduate in top-level banking has quickly shot up, reaching and then surpassing $100,000—a guaranteed salary to be padded later with a chunky bonus.
– Out in the real world, a six-figure entry-level salary is another example of extreme inequality and the way finance has come to dominate the economy.
– Work has been piling up—along with profits—amid growing confidence in an economic rebound. Clients that might have held off on acquisitions and other deals earlier in the pandemic are now clamouring for bankers’ attention.
– Adam Cotterill, who worked in the junior ranks of Goldman until last year, says it isn’t surprising that the solution banks have landed on is not so much to improve the job but to pay more.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky Project Hires Jay Graber – Bloomberg — www.bloomberg.com
Highlights:
– Twitter said that Bluesky, the open-source project the company first announced in 2019 to build a “decentralized standard for social media,” will be led by Jay Graber, a startup founder and cryptocurrency developer.
– Dorsey’s vision is to tear down the walls between social media services, creating technology known as a protocol that would let developers draw on content from a variety of sources.
– But this scenario would only be possible if those networks agree to use the same protocol.
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Aramco Said to Be Nearer $25 Billion Reliance Refining Deal – Bloomberg — www.bloomberg.com
Highlights:
– A deal would forge a closer alliance between the world’s biggest oil exporter and one of the fastest-growing consumers.
– A representative for Reliance said the company does not have anything to add beyond Ambani’s comments at the shareholders’ meeting in June when the conglomerate appointed Aramco Chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan to the board.
– Saudi Arabia shipped 613,000 barrels a day of crude to India in July, around 10% of its total exports.
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Living at AlJurf
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AlJurf Gardens harnesses nature’s raw beauty and combines it with refined heritage-inspired architecture and contemporary design to present a sanctuary of wellness and calm.
Throughout the villa spaces, the refined and controlled raw beauty of nature is repeated in different scales, to showcase its exquisiteness across every typology of homes, gardens and courtyards.
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There’s $35 Trillion Invested in Sustainability, but $25 Trillion of That Isn’t Doing Much — www.bloomberg.com
Highlights:
– Sustainable investment assets grew to $35.3 trillion globally last year. But the bulk of that money—some $25 trillion—is in a strategy called “ESG integration,” also known as “ESG consideration.
– Since ESG lacks definitions, it can often mean different things to different people, said Lisa Sachs, who heads Columbia University’s Center on Sustainable Investment.
– The major risk is that finance is purporting to solve social and environmental problems through ESG and that there’s no need for government action,” Sachs said.
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Letter Requesting Donation for School
Our school “Lady of the Tower School for the Sisters of the Holy Family” is located in Bekaa- Lebanon in the district of Deir El Ahmar. — atiejelmouallem.com
Its ultimate goal is our children’s spiritual and educational lives.
From 1932 till now, our school still taking care of poor children, but due to the economic circumstances in Lebanon in general, and in our school in particular, we require your generous attention in the form of donations.
Your donation and help can bring a smile to thousands of faces by helping them to achieve a good life and to continue their learning in our school.
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All-Inclusive Magic Mushroom, Ayahuasca Retreats Are New Luxury Trips – Bloomberg — www.bloomberg.com
Highlights:
– At the all-inclusive Soltara Healing Center, set amid 22 acres near the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica, stays run from $2,600 to $8,900.
– Douglas Gordon, chief executive officer of Silo Wellness, says his retreat is in line with the changing notions of luxury. “Real luxury is being able to wear flip-flops to dinner,” he says. “It’s not necessarily black tie, you know?
– Already it appears there’s serious money to be made: According to Data Bridge Market Research, the psychedelic market is projected to reach $10.7 billion by 2027, up from $3.8 billion last year.
– A study published in November 2020 by Research and Markets valued the overall wellness tourism industry at $735.8 billion; by 2027, the agency projected it would be worth $1.2 trillion.
– Currently, Jamaica and the Netherlands, where the British Psychedelic Society has been offering psilocybin-assisted retreats since 2016, are primary destinations because of their liberal laws around psychoactive substances.
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