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Schlepping around open homes in socks isn’t the only way to own property. 🏡 With REITs, investors own a slice of the companies that own and operate real estate. Time for a new rung on the property ladder? 🏨

Chips and tomato sauce? 🍟🍅 Love. Gin and juice? 🍸 Sure. But not every pairing works… and AT&T shareholders have paid the price for their failed pairing. Now they’ve consciously uncoupled, can new Warner Bros Discovery end their inherited cash flow woes?

Rainy school holiday woes may soon have a Lego-up. 🦵 Something epic’s coming to the metaverse for more good time family fun.

Nuclear energy may have us Kiwis shaking in our boots but it solves a myriad of problems. ⚛️ End to Russian energy supply. ✅ Fewer deaths from nuclear accidents. ✅ So who’s reacted to the UN’s ‘now or never’ climate call?

Turns out Kiwi parents WFH during the covid years were partial to a tipple or 4… more than anyone else. 🍷 Who else kept alcohol stocks bubbling in the markets?

Chocolate covered tarantulas not your jam this Easter? 🕷 While Cadbury’s sprinkling the shrinkflation on your beloved choccie bars, only time will tell whether our beloved Easter Bunny will also be culled. See what else is giving us the melts this Easter.

Looks like 2021’s bright light IPO-bonanza has fizzled out. 💨 What could be causing investor uncertainty and could it last forever? Get the downlow on IPOs.

Stretchy pants got you through the WFH highs ‘n’ lows? 🧘 Seems you’re not the only one, with Nike and Lululemon reporting strong results in their latest earnings. 📈 See how Lululemon’s bringing the bliss.

Has Meta been reading from the lobbyists’ playbook? 📕 Seems their latest drive to trigger a moral convulsion, targeting TikTok, may have backfired. What happens when it crashes down?

When blokes stop buying undies it could spell recession. 🩲 But Petco CEO Ron Cough reckons he knows the secret to recession-proof stocks. 🐶 Roof roof. But is a recession looming?

Seems like now’s a good time to be an employee. 💪 Disney, Activision Blizzard and Goldman Sachs’ employees have been leading the revolution. See what all the fuss is about here.

Your Friday takeaways may be under threat but that’s the least of the world’s woes with looming food shortages. 🍟 Ukraine crop shortages and Russia’s squeeze on fertilisers may break the food chain.