- If you don’t already, IAC’s Quarterly Shareholder Letter is a must read.
- IAC is the holding company for Barry Diller.
- Since 1995 the company shares have outperformed the S&P by 1.6x; and 4x in the last 3 years.
- In that time they created and spun-off several public companies – Expedia, TripAdvisor, Match Group (owner of Tinder), ANGI Homeservices. The latter two IAC still holds >80% stakes in.
- They continue to build and invest in new business like Vimeo (Online Video), DotDash (online publishing), Blue Crew (online recruitment) and the latest Turo (car sharing). In other words at the tech forefront.
- The latest letter is here and each quarter you can find them here.
UK Economy at a Glance
- A very useful dashboard from the FT on the state of the UK Economy
- https://ig.ft.com/sites/numbers/economies/uk/
UK PMI
- The UK is looking very weak on the eve of Brexit, inventory re-stocking boost has run out
- IHS Markit/CIPS UK Manufacturing PMI Release hit 47.4 in August – the lowest level since 2012 (https://tinyurl.com/y5qrhe75)
- “The high levels of economic and political uncertainty pervasive across domestic and global markets continued to weigh heavily on the performance of UK manufacturing during August. Output volumes fell as intakes of new work contracted at the fastest pace for over seven years, while business optimism dropped to a series-record low.“
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