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Reed Elsevier stock price is dropping but …
“Noise around the boycott against Elsevier offers short term trading opportunity”. That’s from the investment firm Exane Paribas, which “fully expects the price to rebound once this boycott fails like all the previous ones”. Indeed, even though more than 4900 … Continue reading
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Tagged access publishing, elsevier publications, mathematical community, Scott Aaronson, timothy gowers
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