Banks Provide Mixed Start to Q4 Earnings Season

JPMorgan JPM and Citigroup C shares lost ground as they kick-started the Q4 earnings season for the banks. JPMorgan beat EPS estimates, but missed on revenues that were up +1.7% from the same period last year. Citi also missed top-line expectations, with 2021 Q4 revenues down -0.9% from the year-earlier period. – Zacks The tone…

A taste for sweet – an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins of why you’re programmed to love sugar

The sweetness of sugar is one of life’s great pleasures. People’s love for sweet is so visceral, food companies lure consumers to their products by adding sugar to almost everything they make: yogurt, ketchup, fruit snacks, breakfast cereals and even supposed health foods like granola bars. Elva Etienne/Moment via Getty Images – The Conversation Schoolchildren…