Investment Week (July 17)
“BlackRock teams are ‘very concerned’ with capturing the tone of US President Donald Trump’s policy stance, to the extent that the asset management giant has spent time tracking the president’s use of capital letters in his social media.” For a while, they found the ratio of upper to lower case letters was a good indicator of the President’s tone, but their approach has been stymied because he now “writes everything in capitals.”
Tags: Asset management, BlackRock, Capital letters, Concerned, Indicator, Policy stance, President, Social media, Stymied, Tone, Tracking, Trump, U.S.
South China Morning Post (February 22)
“The assured tone of top health officials has made China’s initial failure to take prompt measures to contain the coronavirus all the more telling – and not least because it is from the same family of viruses as Sars.”
Tags: Assured, China, Coronavirus, Failure, Health officials, Prompt measures, SARS, Tone
New York Times (September 20)
“The United Nations isn’t the venue one would expect for threatening war. Yet that’s what President Trump did in his first address to the General Assembly.” His “dark tone and focus seemed a significant deviation, not least his relentlessly bellicose approach to North Korea,” in front of a “world body whose main purpose is the peaceful resolution of disputes.”
Tags: Bellicose, Disputes, General Assembly, North Korea, Peaceful, Resolution, Threatening, Tone, Trump, UN, War
