window dressing
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Improving risk appetite for local Malaysian assets amid a resilient economic outlook and year-end window dressing may provide a supportive tone for the vegetable oil, according to Kenanga Futures in a research note.
Yet for investors considering any last-minute “window dressing” to spruce up their portfolios before liquidity tends to dry up during the year-end holiday period, Sutherland of Schroders said that’s not a good idea.
From MarketWatch
Spotify knew or should have known “with reasonable diligence, that fraudulent activities were occurring on its platform,” states the lawsuit, describing the streamer’s policies to root out fraud as “window dressing.”
From Los Angeles Times
"If you take away the gadgets, the mobile phones and the laptops, essentially remove all the window dressing, it's still the same story. It's just been updated."
From BBC
During his five years in New York, he worked other jobs too: window dressing at Bergdorf Goodman and leading tours around the city.
From Los Angeles Times
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