In the future we’ll be thirsty, and artificial intelligence will do our jobs, but we’ll all be svelte. These are some of the insights that Barron’s gleaned from investment specialists and financial advisors when we asked them about the economic, demographic, and technological changes that investors should brace for in the years to come. “The...
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WSJ News Exclusive | World’s Richest Man Likes the View Atop Refurbished Tiffany
As a young tycoon living in New York in the 1980s, Bernard Arnault quickly realized some of the most valuable real estate was located on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. When he bought the building that houses the Louis Vuitton flagship store on the northeast corner, he got a close-up view of...
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Tiffany: Not Just a Shopping Destination, But a World-Class Museum
When Tiffany & Co. reopens its New York City flagship on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street this spring, following three years of work, visitors will hardly recognize the street-level sales floor famously featured in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Or any other floor, for that matter. Where dark-green marble and teak columns once surrounded...
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U.K. Billionaire Bidding for Manchester United Plots a U.S. Expansion
LONDON—U. K. billionaire Jim Ratcliffe has built one of the world’s most unconventional conglomerates, a sprawling collection of assets that includes a global chemicals business and baubles like a centuries-old London pub and a luxury British fashion brand. Now the 70-year-old tycoon, who was knighted in his home country but isn’t as well known outside...