An eerie treasure has been uncovered underneath the floorboards at the Auschwitz concentration camp — 35 well-preserved handmade chess pieces. Renovators at Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum found the incomplete set in the prison’s first floor, hidden under a floorboard so as to avoid detection from the brutal Nazi guards who patrolled the cells. Elżbieta Cajzer, […]
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There’s something odd about the stock market’s concentration: Morning Brief
This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: The major indexes may have only chalked small gains Wednesday, but while the generals were sleeping, the soldiers were on the march. At the vanguard, moderate losses in large-cap energy and financials were […]
A memorial opens on the site of a Nazi concentration camp for Roma after a pig farm was removed
PRAGUE (AP) — A new memorial opened on Tuesday in the Czech Republic on the site of a former Nazi concentration camp for Roma, after a communist-era pig farm was removed. The official opening capped a process that took decades and was made possible after the Czech government agreed to remove the farm. “It’s very […]
Jack Nicklaus says concentration lapses behind Rory McIlroy not winning Masters
Jack Nicklaus criticised Rory McIlroy for a lack of concentration as the 88th Masters belatedly got under way at Augusta National. Overnight rain and the threat of thunderstorms saw the start of play pushed back from 8am to 1030am, with honorary starters Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson kicking off proceedings 20 minutes earlier by […]
The untold horrors of Berlin’s concentration camp for women
Historical novels tend to revisit well-known places and events, but El Barracón de las Mujeres (The Women’s Hut) by Spanish writer Fermina Cañaveras has opened readers’ eyes to a little-known story of the Holocaust. The novel describes the horrifying ordeal of a young Spanish woman forced to join the ranks of feld-huren or “camp whores” […]
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Holocaust survivor details life in concentration camps during ASU speech
PHOENIX – A 101-year-old holocaust survivor gave a speech at Arizona State University on Feb. 18. During his speech, Joseph Alexander talked about his time in more than a dozen different concentration camps, including Auschwitz. A tattoo on Alexander’s arm reads 142854: that was the number that replaced his name. Now, it’s a constant reminder […]
JPMorgan Quants Warn of Dot-Com Style Concentration in US Stocks
(Bloomberg) — The dominance of the 10 biggest stocks in US equity markets is increasingly drawing similarities with the dot-com bubble, raising the risk of a selloff, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. quantitative strategists. Most Read from Bloomberg The share of the top ten stocks on the MSCI USA Index, including all of the […]
No significant increase in Russian concentration on Kharkiv front
There is no significant increase in the concentration of Russian forces on the Kharkiv and Kupyansk fronts, Volodymyr Fityo, Ukraine’s Ground Forces Command spokesperson, said on Jan. 12. “We are monitoring the numerical composition of Russian forces on the Kupyansk front, observing their numbers near the northern border of Kharkiv Oblast, in Belgorod Oblast,” Fityo […]
Half of Warren Buffett’s $313 Billion Berkshire Hathaway Portfolio is Invested in This 1 Stock. Here’s Why He’s Not Too Concerned About Concentration Risk.
Buffett2 TMF As CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett has one of the most impressive investing track records on Wall Street. Since taking over the top position at Berkshire in 1965 through 2022, he and his team have delivered a total return of 3,787,464%, crushing the S&P 500 index’s total return of 24,708% — and […]