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Front-Runner Bongbong Marcos Could Help America’s Retail Supply Chain
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – FEBRUARY 19: Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the son of the late dictator … [+] Ferdinand Marcos, and Davao city Mayor Sara Duterte, daughter of Presiden...
Singapore’s Distaste for Retail Crypto is Spooking Institutional Money
“There’s a fascinating discussion to be had about whether what Hwang did was full-blown fraud, but I won’t bother trying to outdo Matt Levine on that front. Instead, I want to focus on the finan...
Amazon and Ford Have a Big Problem They Can’t Control
Amazon (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report and Ford (F) – Get Ford Motor Company Report operate in two different sectors. The first is in online commerce, streaming, sport and, above a...
DBS Declines to Offer Crypto Services to Retail Customers as Regulation Stiffens
Piyush Gupta, the Chief Executive Officer of DBS Bank Limited, a multinational bank headquartered in Singapore, announced on Friday that the global bank will not provide cryptocurrency trading for ret...
How Coworking Companies Like The Wing And Industrious Are Intersecting With Retail
The Wing’s Chicago location in Fulton Market The Wing The lines between retail, office, and industrial real estate are becoming exponentially blurred. Retail brands are using stores for fulfillm...
COVID-19 and Its Impact on the Latin American Retail Forex Landscape
Latin America is a region of interest for many retail forex Forex Foreign exchange or forex is the act of converting one nation’s currency into another nation’s currency (that possesses a different ...
‘So bad, it’s good.’ This beleaguered stock market has one big asset on its side, say strategists.
A rough month for stocks is drawing to a close, and many investors likely won’t be sad to see the back of it. And the last day of April trade is looking weak as Apple and Amazon failed to raise the ba...
How Crypto Could Spearhead Retail Payments in 2022
Crypto isn’t alone in having structural problems: Fraudulent credit card transactions and ID theft increased by 35% during the coronavirus pandemic and small, independent businesses remain some of the...
Retailers Scramble to Adapt As Inflation; Supply Chain Woes Persist
Retailers Scramble to Adapt as Inflation; Supply Chain Woes Persist getty The rules of retailing are being rewritten as hope fades that inflation will subside any time soon, or that supply chain disru...
How Is Aussie Retail FX Industry Reacting to Leverage Restrictions?
Australia is one of the largest markets when it comes to retail trading. It is home to several top global brokers offering retail trading services with forex and contracts for differences (CFDs). IC M...
USD/CHF price forecast as Swiss retail sales dive
The USD/CHF price retreated slightly on Friday after the relatively mixed economic data from Switzerland and an important speech by SNB’s Jordan. It is trading at 0.9688, which is about 0.77% below th...
Amazon looks to cut costs after first loss in seven years sends stock careening lower
Amazon.com Inc. reported a loss of nearly $4 billion in the first quarter of 2022 as inflationary pressures added costs, and executives expect to make changes to cut some expenses. Amazon AMZN, +4.65%...
Amazon Stock Plunges On Surprise Q1 Loss, Weak Near-Term Outlook
Updated at 5:42 pm EST Amazon Inc (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report posted a surprise first quarter loss Thursday, thanks in part to a $7.6 billion write down on its investment in EV maker R...
67% of Retail Investors See Crypto as a Trustworthy Investment, Study Shows
As a show of belief in the crypto space, 67% of retail or investors deem cryptocurrencies as trustworthy investments, while only 11% seeing them as untrustworthy, according to a study by crypto exchan...
Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway are once again outperforming the stock market. Apple is one big reason but these other 10 stocks also helped
During the long, tech-driven bull market, you may have seen more than one article suggesting Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett’s investing style was no longer valid. With Buffett leading the congl...
‘I’m spending a fortune on home maintenance. I realize my second husband is essentially living in my house for free’: What is a fair way to split costs?
I am a retired 62-year-old woman. I was widowed in 2006 at the age of 46 and raised my two children (now 24 and 27) on my own. I used my husband’s life insurance money (about $500,000) to maintain our...
Retail and consumer IPOs, M&A activity slowing amid inflation: KPMG
People shop at a grocery store in Monterey Park, California, on April 12, 2022. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Supply chain headaches, surging interest rates and the war in Ukraine have combi...
Costco and Target Have a Huge Edge Over Walmart (It’s Not Price)
Low prices drive shoppers to stores but they don’t necessarily make them like shopping at those stores. That’s something Walmart (WMT) – Get Walmart Inc. Report has long had to deal ...
JCPenney owners offer $8.6 billion to acquire rival Kohl’s
The owners of JCPenney have made an offer to acquire archrival Kohl’s in a deal that could value the department-store chain at upwards of $8.6 billion, The Post has learned. Under the proposal, shoppi...
Why semiconductor stocks are ‘almost uninvestable’ despite record earnings amid a global shortage
The PHLX Semiconductor Index SOX, +1.76%, which hit a record high of 4,039.51 on Dec. 27, fell 13% over the first quarter of 2022, and as of Monday, is down about 24% year to date, putting it firmly i...
Alibaba Stock Drops to Its Lowest Level in 6 Years. Behind the Latest Fall.
Text size Shanghai has been under strict Covid-19 lockdowns since March. Dreamstime The worsening Covid-19 situation in China is weighing on the country’s stock market, with companies including Alibab...
The stock market selloff still has another 20% to go, says the godfather of liquidity
As the meat of earnings season begins, it’s worth noting what investors have learned so far. The short version is, apart from a few isolated companies (cough, Netflix, cough), not a whole lot: the pro...
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Withdraws $3.2 Billion Take Over Bid For India’s Future Retail
JioMart branding on crates at a store that is a Jio Prime Merchant in Mumbai, India, on Monday, Nov. … [+] 9, 2020. Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg Reliance Industries—controlled by billionaire Mukesh Am...
Amazon’s price targets are slashed and stock sinks after first quarterly loss in seven years
Amazon.com Inc. shares sank more than 12% in Friday trading after the e-commerce and tech giant reported its first quarterly loss in seven years. Amazon AMZN, -14.05% fell to the lowest level since Ju...