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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

5 years

Twitter dunked Peloton over a dumb ad so hard that the stock dropped 10%

Peloton Stock Is Pummeled on Backlash From ‘Gift That Gives’ Ad

Online outrage over a Peloton Interactive Inc. holiday ad drove down shares and prompted calls for the stationary-bike maker to pull the commercial.

www.bloomberg.com

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

6 years

Merry Christmas to everyone who is the "finance person" in their families and will have to answer market selloff questions from now until New Year's

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Manhattan real estate update: I'm not renewing my lease (pretty standard east village tenement 2BR) and the landlord is marketing the apartment as a no fee for $800 a month less than my roommate and I currently pay

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@claireeboston

6 years

Fact: this week and Memorial Day/Labor Day weekend are the most underrated times to be in NYC

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@Gothamist

6 years

NYC appears to be empty today.

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

✨personal news✨ I’m the new team leader for Bloomberg’s distressed debt and bankruptcy coverage! Extremely excited to work with a great team of news breakers as we sniff out the next wave of company trouble

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Now that is a capital structure

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

5 years

This is quite possibly the best email I have ever received

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

2 years

i need to know more about this person projecting his Bloomberg (??) onto his window shade (???)

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

6 years

This is...not how scoops work

Charles Gasparino

@CGasparino

6 years

SCOOP-Price of @Tesla debt soars to close to 90 cents on the dollar as investors' fear of immediate cash need need dissipate we discuss now @FoxBusiness @TeamCavuto

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

2 years

Unfortunately just landed on private equity TikTok and it was indeed an influencer trying to romanticize “implementing changes” and taking calls with her VP till 1 a.m.

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

6 years

Also I am obsessed with the terms of this loan. They have to pay half of it back on August 1! And all by August 5! If they're 48 hours late, they owe Hudson Bay 130% of its value. Oh, and they're also paying lender fees.

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

I measure the intensity of all sell-offs by how many randos from college text me about their 401ks. We are currently at "medium-intense"

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

2 years

i gasped $AMC

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

Every day we stray further from god

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

I'm obsessed with the pettiness of this as a defense also, uh, my DMs are open if you know who else messed up

zerohedge

@zerohedge

3 years

*CITI SAYS IT KNOWS OF ANOTHER BANK MAKING BIG PAYMENT ERROR *CITI: OTHER BANK'S ERROR EVEN LARGER THAN ITS REVLON MISTAKE

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

The J.C. Penney CDS auction determined the bonds were worth an EIGHTH OF A CENT and yet

Retail Traders Flout Legal Logic by Buying Up Bankrupt Stocks

Investors are piling into stocks of bankrupt companies, wagering against a court process that routinely wipes out shareholders.

www.bloomberg.com

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

6 years

Today is a good day

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

We confirmed Evergrande paid its interest at approximately the exact same time that J&J court decisions were coming down and let me tell you my blood pressure is still recovering

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

7 years

*WHOLE FOODS SPOT CHECK FINDS AMAZON CUT PRICES AS MUCH AS 51% realizing now I should have delayed my Sunday grocery trip

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

A nice perk of having a terminal at work is now I can check the bond prices of the low-cost airline I'm supposed to fly next week to see how likely it is to go bankrupt while I'm mid-flight

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

5 years

An increasing number of schools are letting students pay for college with future earnings. Pioneering investors are figuring out how to make these agreements into a new asset class. Read about a mild obsession of mine in @BW

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

A strange dynamic of this crisis is that there's a really big housing component again! The whole ecosystem may be stronger than '08, but it's still a disaster if huge swaths of the population suddenly can't make payments

Tracy Alloway

@tracyalloway

4 years

Absolutely stunning moves in mortgage bonds. This bond comprised of Alt-A home loans originated by Citi went from trading above par to trading at 70 cents on the dollar in *less than 3 weeks* and it's not the only one.

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

2 years

Musk/Twitter is fascinating bc it's the richest-man-in-the-world equivalent of trying to worm your way out of weekend that sounded great on tuesday but now it's friday and you're tired

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

I was so over this story but after this beautiful collision of capitalism, subreddit drama and Peak Adaptation Rights I’m fully back in

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

5 years

Free advice to men: don’t do this!!

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

there is no need to @ me with an explanation of chapter 11; I assure you it is my job to know how these things work

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Colorado: trail run at your own risk

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

unsolicited pitch of the day

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

1 year

I am once again shamelessly plugging our new distressed debt newsletter The Brink, which launched today! Get it in your inbox Tuesdays and Fridays; there is simply so much to talk about rn

The Brink

Chronicling corporate distress, bankruptcies, financial meltdowns and turnaround stories. Delivered on Tuesdays and Saturdays, for subscribers only.

www.bloomberg.com

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

5 years

Doing a CFA practice problem set featuring an uninsured journalist with $5k of assets and $67k of liabilities and feeling personally victimized

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

7 years

My dream as a structured finance reporter is for Tesla's coming auto lease securitization ($546 million! Expected this week!) to get like 1/5 the press that the flamethrowers get

Bloomberg Originals

@bbgoriginals

7 years

Elon Musk is selling flamethrowers to fund his tunnel business

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Ominous warning from the bunit today

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

If you are a hedge fund who returned Citi's mistaken Revlon payment because obviously it was a mistake, how mad are you rn?

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

6 years

One of the great things about financial journalism is that if you wrote one story about weed as an intern in 2015 you will continue to get 2-3 weed pitches a week until you die

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

8 months

Couldn’t have achieved this marathon PR without help from United Site Services, thank u Platinum Equity <3

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

1 year

Love 2 get news tips from my partner

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

Turns out filing for bankruptcy while also saying you're in your "strongest financial condition in years" isn't a viable strategy

Prof. Jacoby

@melissabjacoby

3 years

Over the last 4 months, NRA got its chance to explain why it was in bankruptcy. Turns out that the initial press release pretty much captured the situation.

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

2 years

i lost 1.5 days of skiing but at least now i am an expert in the advantages/disadvantages of point-to-point vs hub and spoke models for airlines

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

I love this ⁦ @danahull ⁩ story on “TSLAires” Also I’m still thinking about NYC Marathon 2018, in which ⁦ @nickgray ⁩ decided that “Buy TSLA” was a totally normal thing to put on a sign

Elon Musk Has Made Millionaires Out of His Most Loyal Fans

They bought Tesla shares early and kept the faith. After a dizzying year, with the stock up more than 700%, is it time to cash in?

www.bloomberg.com

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

5 years

It's been ~2 years since Deutsche Bank rebranded its asset management arm as DWS, but I still read it as DSW and think "shoes" in every. single. headline

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Today is a truly momentous day as a bond reporter because it's a day non-finance people will also care about bonds

Bloomberg

@business

4 years

Treasuries surged, driving 10-year yields below 1% for the first time ever

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

5 years

I wrote a PIK bond explainer for the WeWork watchers out there. It's honestly the most delightful form of financing. Pay your debt with more debt!

Feeling Risky? WeWork’s 15% Bonds Would Be for Bravest of Brave

JPMorgan Chase & Co. bankers have what might be one of the least enviable jobs on the Street today: convincing credit investors to lend to WeWork in a debt deal that practically redefines risky.

www.bloomberg.com

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

who wants to tell them how bananas work

Aaron Rutkoff

@aaronrutkoff

4 years

Virus prevention comes to the corporate snack pantry

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

2 years

coinbase bond this morning

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

this is the only thing you need to know about retail in 2021

New York Magazine

@NYMag

3 years

The original Barneys store on Seventh Avenue, once the most sophisticated department store on earth, is becoming a Spirit Halloween

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

can someone please tell me how large this is? am unclear

San Miguel Sheriff

@SheriffAlert

3 years

A large boulder the size of a large boulder is blocking the southbound lane Hwy 145 mm28 in Stoner Creek area of Montezuma County. Expect delays. #largeboulder

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

Thinking about the time Rumsfeld sent the most savage "pls fix" memo in history

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Mfw I'm talking about loans but stocks are acting like it's 2008

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Today in debt land: -Boeing cut to BBB -Exxon cut to AA -Kraft Heinz, Caesars, MGM and a bunch of others draw on credit lines -Leveraged loans hit lowest price since 2009 -Commercial paper market still acting choppy -Many, many other things I'm missing

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

5 years

did a private jet write this

Allison McNeely

@allisonmcneely

5 years

"Adding whipped cream to millions of Starbucks Corp. drinks emits 50 times as much greenhouse gas as the company’s private jet." wow wow wow

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

icymi, we've built a system where a AAA company getting sued over and over can just put all those lawsuits in a corporate box, and then put that box into bankruptcy and continue on its way

Bloomberg

@business

3 years

J&J could start collecting on its new legal strategy for dealing with baby-powder cancer claims as early as Wednesday

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

today when we were trying to figure out why the AMC bonds hashtag was trending i watched a 29 minute livestream about this and then tried to explain it to my colleagues this is not what i signed up for when i took this job

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

'Tis the season to control+f "going concern" every time a new filing drops

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Proud to have gotten the bf into Normal People, even though he refers to it as "the show about the sad Irish people"

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Exceedingly rare perfect headline right here

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

Car market update: rented at the airport and the guy was required to take down my return flight information because they are “having a little bit of a car stealing problem”

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Quarantine update: boyfriend had 8 Lou Malnati’s pizzas overnighted from Chicago and now the freezer cannot fit anything else

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Sad to report that I received the dumbest, most inevitable quarantine correction today. I said it was Wednesday. It is, in fact, Thursday

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

This is also my reaction when I think about working from home for the foreseeable future

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

taking bets on what company will try to 5 p.m. news dump today and/or file for bankruptcy around midnight

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

my journalism career has peaked

Allison McNeely

@allisonmcneely

3 years

A very topical Distressed Daily today from @claireeboston (Terminal users, subscribe if you haven't already!)

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

6 years

People think they know what journalists do but really a surprisingly large amount of it is scouting photos of manhattan coffee shops on yelp to see if they're big enough for meetings

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

I've seen a lot of business jargon in my career but omnichannel is still the worst word of all time

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

My b-unit is taunting me with pre-pandemic activities

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

5 years

Banking executives answering WeWork questions this morning

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Things I learned while reporting on a PIK toggle dividend deal (you love to see it) There is a CEO out there named John Galt

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Did not anticipate the influencer beat and the distressed debt beat colliding but honestly i love it

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

5 years

Y’all I’m just saying, staying in the city is the best move

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

I interned at Bloomberg and later conned them in to letting me run a whole team⬇️

Shelly Banjo

@sbanjo

3 years

Ooooh!🚨 Bloomberg News internship alert! 🚨 Know any enterprising reporters looking to get a great start in journalism? Send them these links: Summer- Winter-

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

all i want to know is how many publishers/layout managers got to yell "STOP THE PRESSES" last night media reporters pls figure this out

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

A small upside of the pandemic is that I now do my TV hits in sweats

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

The Bloomberg terminal recently got tabs and I can now report that I've been chided by the machine for trying to open too many of them

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

1 year

*BED BATH PLANS TO RAISE UP TO $1.025B THROUGH OFFERINGS this company is shaving years off my life

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

5 years

I love telling people that NYC is the greatest city in the world but also this morning in my apartment I filled up a water cup and discovered a dead cockroach in it

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

6 years

Earnest tweet: Today’s my third I-moved-to-New-York anniversary and I still think this city is the best!! Here is a cloudy conference room picture from Tuesday!

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

2 years

I know there is just a bit of SBF out there right now but can we talk about this BONKERS new filing to hit the bankruptcy docket?

Bahamas Told Bankman-Fried to Mint New Crypto as FTX Collapsed, Lawyers Say

www.bloomberg.com

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Doing some casual apartment browsing and I respect the hustle of the broker who described a studio as "open floor plan"

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

2 years

*KABBAGE INC FILES FOR CHAPTER 11 IN DELAWARE rare synergy between my former life as an ABS reporter and current life in the bankruptcy/distress trenches

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

6 years

Our red headline people have been busy

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

11 months

We were told to follow the money and it led us to an IHOP in Miami

Byju’s Hid $533 Million in Hedge Fund Once Run From Miami IHOP, Lenders Allege

One of India’s hottest tech companies, Byju’s, allegedly hid $533 million in an obscure three-year-old hedge fund that once said its principal place of business was an IHOP pancake restaurant in...

www.bloomberg.com

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

6 years

I ran my first marathon and 1. Never hit the wall 2. Only lost one toenail Tbh I don’t know which of the three is the biggest accomplishment

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

5 years

🚨Twitter Junk Bonds 🚨

Twitter, Inc. Announces Proposed $600 Million Senior Unsecured Notes Offering

/PRNewswire/ -- Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced its intention to offer, subject to market conditions and other factors, $600 million aggregate...

www.prnewswire.com

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

10 years

"He is not survived by a cat." @OHnewsroom

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

5 years

Fitch hit WeWork's bonds with a 3-notch downgrade which bondholders are completely shrugging off given the S-1 filing (Debt is up the most on record....)

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

I'm technically not a distressed debt reporter but in the past week I've covered Hertz, Travelport and Diamond Sports so all evidence is really starting to suggest otherwise

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

my body: please just eat a fruit or vegetable for breakfast, I beg of you me: but what about leftover election night pizza and a lot of coffee?

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Shot/chaser

Jim Aley

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4 years

JPMorgan news

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@claireeboston

5 years

Best day of the year for charts

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

There are multiple bankruptcy attorneys who think filing for "Chapter 111" will prevent journalists/scrapers from finding the case. We will still find it, I promise you!!

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

5 years

A quiet joy in journalism is when you're on phone with someone and they're describing some interesting story they read and it turns out to be your story

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

5 years

I know we’ve had a lot of news today but I’m just over here thinking about the lawyer who had to argue that their client will face “irreparable harm” if it does not receive its champagne flavored gummy bears

Jeremy Hill

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5 years

Gummy bear hostage situation resolved

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

3 years

high finánce is a CEO tweeting through not knowing what a security is, and then promptly turning around and issuing some corporate securities

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

People say majoring in journalism is useless but tonight I reunited a teen and his dropped wallet mostly thanks to sleuthing I learned in investigative reporting class five years ago so...worth it

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Shout out to all the editors who have saved me from this correction

APStylebook

@APStylebook

4 years

Be careful not to confuse percent with percentage point. A change from 10% to 13% is a rise of 3 percentage points. This is not equal to a 3% change; rather, it’s a 30% increase.

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

2 years

*FTX INVESTORS TOLD THAT WITHOUT MORE CAPITAL, BANKRUPTCY LIKELY hello

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Circa 3 years ago, a bunch of hedge funds thought they found the next Big Short on malls. It didn't work, until Covid hit. My latest⬇️

A Short Bet Against Malls Fuels 48% Gain for One Long-Time Bear

A hedge fund’s long-held bearish bet on the demise of America’s malls sparked its biggest gains ever last month as the Covid-19 pandemic shut down much of the U.S. economy, threatening commercial...

www.bloomberg.com

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Sunday night mall gloom: Pennsylvania REIT $PEI files for bankruptcy, beating CBL to the punch 🛍

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

5 years

Lil job news: I'm covering all things leveraged finance and CLOs for a few months while @sallybakewell1 takes her team leader talents to the consumer team Send me loan tips/story ideas/editing advice: cboston6 at bloomberg dot net

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

4 years

Happy Lefthanders Day to everyone who has had this scintillating exchange: me: *writes with left hand* person: omg are you left handed? me: ...yes

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Claire Boston

@claireeboston

6 years

1. I highly recommend vacationing in Patagonia with little access to Internet 2. I do not recommend doing it in a week where Sears, PG&E and GE are all imploding

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