

The KBW Bank Index, which tracks leading US lenders, has plunged 32% since the beginning of March. What’s happening: Tumult in the sector following Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse in March has put Wall Street on alert, ready to pounce at any sign of weakness.īank shares have struggled in this climate. (FHN)’s stock has plummeted about 40% in recent months, and it’s plunging further pre-market. (TD)also called off a $13 billion deal Thursday that would have formed America’s sixth-largest bank. (PACW), which is now exploring “all strategic options.” The bank’s stock is down 36% in pre-market trading on Thursday. Investors have shifted their attention to other regional lenders, dumping shares of California’s PacWest Slow Cooked tells her personal story-one that is deeply relevant to everyone who eats, and anyone who thinks it's too late to follow a passion.JPMorgan Chase’s rescue of First Republic Bank in the United States this week didn’t herald the end of the banking crisis. Slow Cooked charts her astonishing rise from bench scientist to the pinnacles of academia, as she overcame the barriers and biases facing women of her generation and found her life's purpose after age fifty. Slow Cooked recounts of how she built an unparalleled career at a time when few women worked in the sciences, and how she came to recognize and reveal the enormous influence of the food industry on our dietary choices.īy the time Nestle obtained her doctorate in molecular biology, she had been married since the age of nineteen, dropped out of college, worked as a lab technician, divorced, and become a stay-at-home mom with two children. In this engrossing memoir, Marion Nestle reflects on how she achieved late-in-life success as a leading advocate for healthier and more sustainable diets. Marion Nestle reflects on her late-in-life career as a world-renowned food politics expert, public health advocate, and founder of the field of food studies after facing decades of low expectations.
