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Can Target Displace Its Parcel Providers?
Monday, April 26, 2021 - 1:18pm | 1790Read More...This is an excerpt from Thursday's (4/22) Point of Sale retail supply chain newsletter sponsored by ArcBest. The best-in-class retailers are aggressively pursuing logistical control over their products (and therefore the customer experience) while trying to avoid patchwork responses to final-...
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Barron's Post-Christmas Picks And Pans: Alibaba, Apple, Intel, Pool, Yelp And More
Sunday, December 27, 2020 - 4:02pm | 1128Read More...This weekend's Barron's cover story offers six travel and leisure stock picks for a rebound in demand. Other featured articles examine China's crackdown on tech giants, the iPhone maker's interest in automobiles, and how Barron's 2020 stocks picks have fared. Also, the...
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Fintech Focus For November 19, 2020
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 7:42pm | 2481Read More...Quote Of The Day: The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. - Bruce Lee Fintech Movers: Big investors are backing online banks more than ever, betting that these upstarts' low overhead and nimble technology stacks will let them keep grabbing customers from traditional...
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Big Week Ahead For Retail, With Walmart, Target, Home Depot Earnings Due
Monday, November 16, 2020 - 11:28am | 2091Read More...Vaccine makers are batting 1000, to borrow a baseball term. So far they’ve gone two for two in terms of positive results, and Wall Street is rounding the bases again early Monday. Moderna Inc (NASDAQ: MRNA) became the latest company to announce an effective vaccine, kicking off...
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Fintech Focus For November 16, 2020
Sunday, November 15, 2020 - 10:15pm | 1771Read More...Quote Of The Day: If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. - Jim Rohn Fintech Movers: The most well-funded US fintech startup is SoFi, with $2.5B in disclosed equity funding. The San Francisco-based personal finance platform offers an array of financial...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Alibaba, Intel, Target, Visa And More
Saturday, November 14, 2020 - 4:07pm | 1039Read More...This weekend's Barron's cover offers a low-risk strategy for investors optimistic about an ecomomic recovery. Other featured articles discuss what a COVID-19 vaccine would mean for the stock market and how it could shake up the pharmaceutical industry. Also, the prospects for semiconductor...
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Fintech Focus Roundup For November 14, 2020
Saturday, November 14, 2020 - 10:52am | 2780Read More...Meet Sharesies, The Investment App For Millennials The Nitty-Gritty: Founded in 2016, Sharesies is a fintech specializing in democratized stock market investing. The company is one of many other brokers that have popped up around the world, helping unlock low-cost access to listed companies and...
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Fintech Focus For November 12, 2020
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 7:32pm | 2686Read More...Quote Of The Day: It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J.K. Rowling Fintech Movers: With the emergence of fintech-savvy institutions like challenger banks, regulating bodies have become concerned with the disruption of established institutions. - Benzinga...
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Next Up: Q3 Retail Earnings And The Tales Of The Winners And Losers Among Merchants
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 2:15pm | 2201Read More...For retailers, the fallout from the COVID-19 contagion that continues to wreak havoc on the nation is still a work in progress, and the Q3 results for the nation’s largest legacy retailers could write another chapter. Unfortunately for some, it may be Chapter 11. This could be another muddled...
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Fintech Focus For October 13, 2020
Monday, October 12, 2020 - 5:57pm | 2271Read More...Quote Of The Day: We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus. - David Nabarro Fintech Movers: Hackers have stolen $22 million from users of the popular bitcoin wallet Electrum by enticing people to install fake software updates. -...
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Tuesday's Market Minute: The Retail Future Of Social Media
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 - 9:42am | 309Read More...Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) and Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) announced over the weekend that they were buying a combined 20% in Tiktok, without which the app would be banned in the U.S. by executive order. Walmart as an investor in a social media app caught my attention, but on second thought, it...
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Fintech Focus For August 20, 2020
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - 6:37pm | 2239Read More...Quote Of The Day: Whoever is happy will make others happy too. - Anne Frank Fintech Movers: There is a large opportunity for Google to leverage its massive direct consumer relationships to attract [banks] to sign up for co-branded checking accounts. For many of the bank and credit union partners,...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Merck, Walmart, Zoetis And More
Saturday, August 15, 2020 - 2:11pm | 813Read More...This weekend's Barron's suggests ways to play U.S.-China tensions and the stock-splitting trend. Other featured articles look at how the election could affect health care stocks and what to expect from big-box retail earnings. Also, the prospects for a pharmaceutical giant, regional bank...
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How Did The Pandemic Impact Amazon's Retail And Cloud Services?
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - 9:34am | 1773Read More...Amazon Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) celebrated its 25th anniversary earlier this month. But the way the company grows and innovates—not to mention how its stock price moves—you’d think it’s a young startup. In his most recent letter to shareholders, AMZN CEO Jeff Bezos stated that if...
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This Week's Spotlights: Economic Data, Earnings, COVID-19 Recovery
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 - 12:34pm | 727Read More...Among key business events for the week is the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for April which is down from 6.2 million in March. Additionally, stocks surged last Friday due to better-than-expected May jobs data, showing us that the economic recovery from the coronavirus lockdown is...
