Finance

Analyst Breakdown

• Skateboarders are giving new life to a massive abandoned department store
• The ground floor of the 1957-opened building that used to house Debenhams in Bristol, southwest England, has been transformed — albeit only temporarily — into Shredenhams, an indoor skate park and creative hub
• Long-forgotten shelving units, timbers and a whole host of other materials that were abandoned and destined for the trash have been rescued and repurposed

Analyst Breakdown

• SYDNEY, Dec 16 (Reuters) – While a Sydney shopowner is being hailed as a hero after disarming one of the gunmen shooting at a Jewish holiday event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, a couple and another man who died after physically confronting the attackers are also being remembered for their heroic efforts to save those around them
• The couple in their 60s, identified by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as Boris and Sofia Gurman, were filmed tackling one of the two gunmen as he exited his car, before being shot dead
• The dashcam footage, verified by Reuters, showed one shooter wrestling for a long-barrelled weapon with an older man in a lavender shirt and shorts, before both fall heavily to the ground behind a silver hatchback car

Analyst Breakdown

• SYDNEY (AP) — A suspected gunman in Sydney’s Bondi Beach massacre was charged with 59 offenses including 15 charges of murder on Wednesday, as hundreds of mourners gathered in Sydney to begin funerals for the victims
• Two shooters slaughtered 15 people on Sunday in an antisemitic mass shooting targeting Jews celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach, and more than 20 other people are still being treated in hospitals
• All of those killed by the gunmen who have been identified so far were Jewish

Analyst Breakdown

• MILAN (AP) — A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue of Bormio, officials announced Tuesday
• The discovery in the Stelvio National Park was striking for the sheer number of footprints, estimated at as many as 20,000 over some five kilometers (three miles), and the location near the Swiss border, once a prehistoric coastal area, that has never previously yielded dinosaur tracks, experts said
• “This time reality really surpasses fantasy,’’ said Cristiano Dal Sasso, a paleontologist at Milan’s Natural History Museum, who received the first call from wildlife photographer Elio Della Ferrera after making the discovery

Analyst Breakdown

• LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Britain’s Duke of Marlborough, a distant relative of Winston Churchill, has been charged with three counts of intentional strangulation, British police said on Wednesday
• Charles James Spencer-Churchill, 70, was arrested in May last year over the alleged offences which took place in November 2022, and in January and May 2024 in Woodstock, near Oxford in central England, Thames Valley police said in a statement
• He has now been issued with a summons to appear at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Thursday

Analyst Breakdown

• New York is the world’s most popular place for the super rich to own a property, according to a new report by data firm Altrata
• A total of 21,714 ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) individuals — those worth over $30 million — own either a primary or secondary residence in the city, the study found
• Next up in the popularity stakes are London and Hong Kong, where 15,907 and 15,175 of the world’s richest people own homes