Michael Domanico

New York

Senior Managing Editor, People at Business Insider

Senior Managing Editor, People at INSIDER

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Articles

Interest Rates Increase For SBICs: March 2025 Standard Debenture Pooling

1 month ago | mondaq.com | Alan J. Roth |Kate Price |Michael Domanico

The March 2025 pooling of Small Business Investment Company(SBIC) standard debentures was priced at 4.963%. This most recentsemiannual pricing of SBIC standard debentures reflected anincrease to the rate set in September 2024 of 4.38%. Despite thisincrease, this pricing remains below the rate set in March 2024 of5.035%. The SBIC standard debenture rate is set based on a market-drivenpremium to 10-Year Treasury Notes.
Numlock Awards: The Oscar Bait era is over. The Oscar Chum era is here.

1 month ago | awards.substack.com | Walt Hickey |Michael Domanico

Numlock Awards is your one-stop awards season newsletter. Every week, join Walt Hickey and Michael Domanico as they break down the math behind the Oscars and the best narratives going into film’s biggest night. Today’s edition comes from Walter. We’ll have one more edition this year, the mailbag, send an email to [email protected] with thoughts!Oscar bait. We’ve all seen it. A studio out of other options tries to pretend their melodrama is the movie that will heal a broken nation.
Numlock Awards: Michael's Final Ballot

1 month ago | awards.substack.com | Walt Hickey |Michael Domanico

Numlock Awards is your one-stop awards season newsletter. Every week, join Walt Hickey and Michael Domanico as they break down the math behind the Oscars and the best narratives going into film’s biggest night. Today’s edition comes from Michael. We’ve reached Oscar Sunday! It’s been a pleasure chatting with you all throughout this pretty wild awards season.
Numlock News: February 28, 2025 • Ants, Monolith, Herculaneum

1 month ago | numlock.com | Walt Hickey |Michael Domanico |Walter Hickey

By Walt HickeyHave a great weekend!Habanos S.A. has a global monopoly on Cuban cigar sales, and business is booming. The joint venture of Cubatabaco and Altadis had sales up to $827 million, an increase of 16 percent year over year. Key markets include Spain, Switzerland, Great Britain and China.
Numlock Awards: The Final Forecast

1 month ago | awards.substack.com | Walt Hickey |Michael Domanico

Numlock Awards is your one-stop awards season newsletter. Every week, join Walt Hickey and Michael Domanico as they break down the math behind the Oscars and the best narratives going into film’s biggest night. Today’s edition comes from Walter. Now we have arrived at this, the final forecast.
Numlock Awards: Pouring one out for the Best Picture nominees with only two nods

1 month ago | awards.substack.com | Walt Hickey |Michael Domanico

Numlock Awards is your one-stop awards season newsletter. Every week, join Walt Hickey and Michael Domanico as they break down the math behind the Oscars and the best narratives going into film’s biggest night. Today’s edition comes from Michael. I’d like to take a moment before final predictions to pour one out for the Best Picture nominees who only nab one other nomination. In the expanded Best Picture era (since 2009), this has happened eight times, including this year.
Numlock News: February 25, 2025 • Crop Duster, Cuttlefish, Commode

1 month ago | numlock.com | Walt Hickey |Michael Domanico |Walter Hickey

By Walt HickeyThe literary tradition of the United States runs through the mass-market paperback. Found at airports and big box stores, it is the purest indication that not only has a book broken through to the mainstream, but it has broken through, stuck around and started setting up a permanent residency in the mainstream. It is a mainstay format for genres like mystery and romance, where publishers buy ink by the tanker truck and pulp by the forestful.
Numlock Awards: How the Academy has changed, for good.

1 month ago | awards.substack.com | Walt Hickey |Michael Domanico

Numlock Awards is your one-stop awards season newsletter. Every week, join Walt Hickey and Michael Domanico as they break down the math behind the Oscars and the best narratives going into film’s biggest night. Today’s edition comes from Walter. We’ll have the final forecast out tomorrow! SAG made things interesting, as you can probably surmise. For now, I wanted to dive into the Academy real quick.
Numlock Awards: The field narrowed, but these contenders can still seize the moment

2 months ago | awards.substack.com | Walt Hickey |Michael Domanico

Numlock Awards is your one-stop awards season newsletter. Every week, join Walt Hickey and Michael Domanico as they break down the math behind the Oscars and the best narratives going into film’s biggest night. Today’s edition comes from WalterHello from London, where I’m doing vast amounts of on-the-ground reporting into the BAFTA Awards after a great time in Berlin for the Berlinale where I was scouting for next year’s big contenders.
There's not a frontrunner and it's dumb we're pretending there was

2 months ago | awards.substack.com | Walt Hickey |Michael Domanico

Last week the Oscar race got some incredibly shocking news. Here’s a bit of a recap:In the AP:Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” is an Oscar contender unlike any other. […] And just as singularly, it’s a best picture front-runner that, it sometimes seems, no one likes.