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Saratov sits beside the Volga and was once an important trading port Mae has been longlisted in a masterplanning competition addressing several sites in a historic Russian city. The UK architect, best known for its housing work, is in one of five international teams that are fighting it out in the second round. It is part of a Russian-led team. Other practices in the running include Belgium’s Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen. Each longlisted team was awarded an honorarium of £50,000. The contest is after architectural and urban planning concepts for the development of the centre of S...

Among the best market calls of 2020 are some overlooked stocks that soared MarketWatch 1/21/2021 THE TELL Against many odds, the stock market not only survived a pandemic, but thrived in 2020, making it a tough year to navigate for investors. The S&P 500 closed out the year with a 16% gain, despite more than 80 million COVID-19 infections by the end of 2020 — that number is currently at 95 million — and 1.8 million dead from the disease — global deaths are now over 2 million — and economies upended. But several strategists and fund managers who MarketWatch spoke to or whose adv...

Look to Retail ETFs as the Economy, Consumer Spending Recovers December 21, 2020 Retail sector-related exchange traded funds are back under the spotlight as the holiday shopping season wraps up, and investors are betting on brick-and-mortar stores to maintain their momentum in anticipation of a full economic recovery in the new year. The SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT), which follows a range of traditional retailers, has increased 13.0% over the past month, and advanced 39.7% year-to-date. Some investors are hopeful that more traditional retailers could regain lost ground in the year ahead, bett...

(Repeats to additional subscribers) NEW YORK, Dec 18 (Reuters) - As holiday shopping season wraps up, U.S. equity investors are gauging whether long-languishing shares of brick-and-mortar retailers can sustain their recent rebound in anticipation of a full economic reopening in 2021. The SPDR S&P Retail ETF, which tracks a broad group of retailers such as department and specialty stores, is up nearly 40% this year. Its gain reflects a rally that has lifted shares of companies in sectors particularly sensitive to the economic cycle, such as industrials and energy, in the wake of recent breakth...

Dear Readers, Being an elite stock-picker in a record-breaking market environment is more difficult that it seems. Sure, you're more likely than not to choose winners with such a broad portion of the market soaring. But what strategies and characteristics can ultimately vault someone into the upper-most percentiles? That's what the Investing team at Business Insider has been busy trying to figure out through conversations with 2020's top-ranked fund managers. Cathie Wood from ARK Invest zeroes in on disruptive and technologically advanced platform companies. Garvin Jabusch of Green Alpha Advi...