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The Reserve Bank of India to launch a retail CBDC pilot in December
Having tested the wholesale usage of its central bank digital currency (CBDC), the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is preparing to conduct the retail pilot of the “digital rupee.” The pilot should launch ...
Cramer reveals a retail stock he says is ‘chronically underestimated’
Best Buy Co Inc (NYSE: BBY) is up more than 10% on Tuesday after the consumer electronics retailer reported profit for its third financial quarter that topped the Street estimates by a significant mar...
Rough Road Ahead For Retail Employers And Employees Next Year
Retail employee having an awful schedule feeling exhausted and desperate getty A year ago, the retailers had one overwhelming employment problem: they couldn’t find enough people to work in their stor...
USD/CAD analysis ahead of Canada retail sales data
The USD/CAD price pulled back slightly on Tuesday as investors waited for the upcoming FOMC minutes and Canada’s retail sales data. It pulled back to a low of 1.3400, which was a few points below the ...
How Argent, A Women’s Workwear Label, Is Using Physical Retail To Grow Its Brand
Fitting room area in Argent’s SoHo store. Courtesy of Argent Argent, the trending women’s workwear brand, recently opened a new store in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood at 93 Crosb...
Markets will shift to a ‘hope’ phase next year, and investors would be wise not to miss it, says Goldman Sachs
Fresh China COVID-19 worries are threatening to nix any preholiday gains for Wall Street, with stocks struggling, oil tumbling and the dollar higher as Monday’s session gets underway. In a shortened w...
The PC boom has gone bust, and we are about to see the results ahead of Black Friday
The pandemic-fueled personal-computer boom has ended, so how will that affect demand and pricing for PCs and the retailers that sell them this holiday season? A sense of the fallout will be provided i...
Black Friday can offer investors clues about how much gas consumers have left in the tank: Here’s what to watch out for
Black Friday is arriving at an interesting time for the American consumer. Shoppers have seemingly persevered this year despite an all-out assault on their pocketbooks and net worth — from falling equ...
Retail Discounter TJX Is Thriving as Inflation Pressures Consumers
Text size These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the vi...
FTX Sends Crypto Reeling. The Whales Move in to Profit.
Cryptocurrency markets have been slammed by the sudden bankruptcy of FTX. But amid the carnage, some big traders—whales—were buying. Bitcoin the largest crypto, was plumbing two-year lows at $16,600 o...
Stock Market Closes Higher As Strong Retail Earnings Outweigh Slow Home Sales| Investor’s Business Daily
The stock market eked out gains in the last hour of trading to close higher Friday, as strong earnings reports from the retail sector outweighed a drop in home sales and news on the economy. The Dow J...
Indian central bank on track to launch retail CBDC pilot next month
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country’s central bank, is finalizing the rollout of the retail digital rupee pilot, the Economic Times of India (ETI) reported on Nov. 19. The RBI initiated the w...
FTX Collapse Pushes FINRA To Investigate Crypto Retail Communications
Many reactions have been erupting following the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange. The crypto market is thrown into a devastating state as prices of most assets are declining. Many participants and ...
Inflation Eases, Consumers Spend, Jobs Multiply
Retail’s Christmas Miracle: Inflation Eases, Consumers Spend, Jobs Multiply getty Keep the champagne on ice for now, but the people have spoken, and the message seems clear — we’ve gotten used to expe...
Retail Crypto Futures ETF In HK? Crypto Daily TV 18/11/2022
In Todays Headline TV CryptoDaily News: Race to launch Hong Kong’s first retail crypto futures ETF begins. Exchange traded fund providers are busy working towards submitting applications to launch ret...
Veteran manager offers 5 ‘cheap, quality, dividend’ stocks that will let you play one of tech’s biggest themes.
2022 may be remembered as the year investors fell out of love with tech stocks. While the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -3.91% is up about 5.3% this quarter, that’s after three dismal ones, and a 28% loss fo...
Black Friday surprise: Jeff Bezos tells people not to buy cars, refrigerators and other big-ticket items. Critics call him out.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos, who founded the e-tail behemoth Amazon, has some spending tips as Americans gear up for the holiday shopping season — amid four-decade-high inflation and recession worries. Her...
BTC, ETH Decline as USD Strengthens Following Retail Sales Data – Market Updates Bitcoin News
Bitcoin was in the red for a second consecutive session, as markets continued to digest the latest U.S. retail sales figures. Sales rose by more than expected in October, coming in at 1.3%, versus exp...
FTX Collapse Hits Asian Retail Trader Pockets the Hardest
It is hard to ascertain how many people have lost money due to the FTX collapse. However, data suggests that a lot of them are based in Asia. FTX International served clients outside of the United Sta...
A Large Number of Bitcoin Retail Investors Incur Losses, BIS Study Reveals
The BIS (Bank of International Settlements) is a Switzerland-based bank belonging to 63 national central financial institutions that recently revealed a new survey based on Bitcoin. Primarily, the BIS...
Crypto-sleuth accuses SolChicksNFT of withholding $20M loss from retail investors
Crypto-sleuth ZachXBT today shared messages exchanged between SolChicksNFT CEO William Wu and COO Lewis Grafton. The conversation reveals that the project lost treasury funds worth around $20 million ...
Jim Cramer says the Fed should consider retail earnings over economic data for its inflation strategy
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday said the Federal Reserve must pay attention to recent retail earnings reports to plan the rest of its battle against inflation. “I am begging the Fed to look...
Burger King Adds a New Weapon in Battle With McDonald’s, Wendy’s
For a long time, Burger King was Pepsi to McDonald’s Coke. At some point, however, that changed and Wendy’s managed to work its way into the conversation, first making it a fast-food burge...
‘Organized retail crime’ drove $400 million in extra profit loss this year
Target stores are getting looted, and it’s taking a huge bite out of profits. The discount retailer told reporters on a call to discuss its third quarter earnings results that inventory shrinkag...
Retail Investors At Receiving End of Crypto Adoption
Switzerland-based Bank of International Settlements (BIS) recently conducted a survey on how retail investors use crypto exchange apps and found that a wide majority i.e. one-third of retail investors...
Alibaba Gets a Price Target Cut After Strong Earnings
Text size Benchmark analyst Fawne Jiang maintained her Buy rating on Alibaba despite cutting her price target. AFP via Getty Images Alibaba Group Holding stock popped on Thursday, prompting an analyst...