PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

What we see in those numbers are the glimmers of a “V-shaped” recovery in those segments where consumers really value and want to return to the physical retail experience – with restaurants leading every other sector. Using those models, the trailing 12-month, non-adjusted, online retail sales numbers show an increase of 31.4

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APRIL 5, 2019

Millennials have been unloading Tesla shares a week before the company revealed disappointing Q1 delivery numbers. Within the past week, a net 5,600 accounts on trading app Robinhood , which is popular with millennials, left their Tesla position, with the number of accounts holding the automaker’s shares falling by more than 4 percent.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

percent forecast. For fiscal 2021, the retailer expects that growth to slow, with eCommerce growth clocking in closer to 30 percent. As for what comes next, full-year profits are forecasted to be between $5 and $5.15 It’s too difficult to tell at this early stage exactly how to forecast it,” he said about the Coronavirus. “We

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Amazon is forecast to reach the number three spot among sellers of digital ads in the U.S. According to The Wall Street Journal , buoyed by a pickup in ad revenue growth and accounting changes, Amazon is on track to generate $4.6 The research firm pointed to “strong organic growth in ad revenues” and the accounting changes.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Storefronts that provide services have exceeded the number of those offering clothes and other merchandise. Per a JLL report, the number of service-based retailers rose 20.5 By contrast, firms that are geared toward selling merchandise account for 47.4 The pop-up sector is forecasted to bring in $50 billion in yearly sales.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

5) in its total number of buyers, sellers and gross merchandise sales as COVID drove consumers to its platform to purchase face masks and other items. The eCommerce Web site — which features handmade jewelry, art, clothing, furniture, toys and craft supplies — saw double- and triple-digit percentage gains during Q2 in several key areas.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

billion, surpassing its forecast of sales between $755.3 For the first time, consumers spent over $1 billion each day during the holiday season, a sign that the digital shift is here to stay, although it brings with it a surge in eCommerce returns. The NRF had forecasted a jump of 20 percent to 30 percent, or sales of between $202.5

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MAY 8, 2020

But even the most enthusiastic futurist or technologist couldn’t have forecast that by the first week of May 2020 the world would no longer be going digital so much as gone digital in response to black swan events that radically hit reset on our working, commerce and personal lives nearly overnight.

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The Finance Weekly

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Particularly CFOs have joined dark social in fast-growing numbers. Off the Ledger is a "sales-free zone" where colleagues from the accounting and finance industries can communicate to one another on a variety of topics, such as business trends, hiring, the latest software to use, accounting treatment questions, and career guidance.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Some forecasts put total retail spending slightly ahead of last year. Consumers who said they would spend “about the same” accounted for 47.3 That number gradually rose up to 48.3 Diving deeper into that number, 83.9 Perhaps the data points that are the most contentious center around overall spend. percent of responses.

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

percent of smart speaker users, and Google Home is expected to account for 31 percent. Forecasting Analyst Jaimie Chung said new speakers now have technology that is comparable to the Echo, and that will make other models more attractive. eCommerce sales. The Amazon Echo will get 63.3 percent of U.S.

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MARCH 12, 2019

households will have Amazon Prime memberships this year, a number that would equal 63.9 Another large incentive is the introduction of Amazon Household, a program allowing family members to share linked accounts for shopping and Prime content. A new study by eMarketer says more than half (51.3 percent) of U.S.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

November 2020 is a prime example of why accounting for selling day differences is important in measuring comparable sales performance," Thomas King, president of the data and analytics division at J.D. million auto accounts in some form of accommodation at the end of September.”. car sales is still intact. percent. “As Love to Drive.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

did strong Q3 numbers, with PYMNTS reporting that “Alphabet said search and other advertising revenues rose 6 percent year over year to $26.3 Marketing on sites such as Rakuten and TikTok is forecasted to rise 18.3 What exactly is playing out is a bit of a poser, but the news itself points to something big. Google parent Alphabet Inc.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

After a subpar holiday shopping season, research firm Moody’s announced that it had revised down its forecast for the sector’s operating income. But leaner inventory levels and other efforts to boost earnings don’t appear to be sufficient, and as a result, we have lowered our 2016 forecast and become more cautious on 2017.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2018

As digital technology keeps bringing new efficiencies to transactions, and more consumers around the world turn to eCommerce for retail and other purchases, an accompanying trend is making life interesting for merchants and payment providers. The numbers back that up. Much of North America remains anchored to major-brand credit cards.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2018

All of this also means buyers and suppliers alike struggle to gain real-time insight into financial positions and accurate forecasting. Unsurprisingly, B2B eCommerce has emerged as a target for blockchain innovators, not least of all because blockchain technology may be able to help address the data problem of business-to-business trade.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

It was only about two months ago — August, in fact — when the prediction came out: Amazon , the eCommerce operator that had recently made moves into healthcare, deepened its power in grocery and continued to grow in other parts of retail (and cloud computing), would hit $2.25 billion forecast. trillion in market capitalization by 2024.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2017

While the Chinese eCommerce giant’s international presence to date is relatively small, that fact looks to change in just a few short years. billion), well above analysts’ forecast of 36 billion yuan. billion), well above analysts’ forecast of 36 billion yuan. The world should watch Alibaba closely.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

Flash forward two and a half decades and it is fair to say that eCommerce has caught on with consumers. Meanwhile the world’s most successful eCommerce retailer, Amazon, was expanding its physical footprint, but with its ongoing series of digital upgrades. She also forecasts headline retail sales to rise by 0.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2018

Really, 2017 was a good year for the eCommerce giant, and we’ve got the numbers to prove it. The 2017 holiday season was its biggest ever , according to eCommerce giant Amazon. Amazon grabbed 44 percent of eCommerce sales and 4 percent of all retail sales in the country. December was a good month for Amazon. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Walmart showed some early results to goose the gas on eCommerce, which is starting to help the company gain some ground back on Amazon; Zelle is now open for business and coming for Venmo; and Alibaba made its latest big brick-and-mortar play. Earnings beat expectations, although revenue came in a bit below pre-release forecasts.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The report wasn’t a train wreck — by most accounts it was more or less in line with analyst expectations — but it didn’t have the kind of potential for take-off that Wall Street likes to see ahead of the always active fourth quarter. By the Numbers. The numbers translate to an increase of 8.7 So, what was the play-by-play?

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

President Ken Natori ; Nick Kaplan , president and co-founder of Fashion to Figure ; and Robert Clarkson , senior vice president of global account, business and global partnerships at PayPal. s Natori noted that when it comes to getting into eCommerce, the first step is often the hardest one for many shoppers. “As Natori Co.’s

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The OECD forecasted that the measures could bring in a further $100 billion in business tax revenues each year. . France will proceed with intentions to gather its controversial digital services tax in the middle of December, Accounting Today reported. France Will Proceed With Controversial Digital Services Tax Plan.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2020

With reports of significant delays in delivery availability and consumer accounts of canceled orders due to too many out of stock items, the reality is that online fulfillment was unprepared for the massive surge in demand,” said Nielsen. The outcome will depend on how long the situation lasts and what economic ramifications it causes.

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MARCH 15, 2019

The book was Douglas Hofstadter’s “ Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought ,” which on its own would not have been historically significant except for the fact that Wainwright bought the book as part of an invite-only beta by a newly-launched eCommerce startup called Amazon.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

regulators), its quarterly earnings call did shed some light on the eCommerce giant’s strategy. Amazon, of course, has been running this experiment for a number of years , starting all the way back during the dot-com boom with an investment in the early online grocery service HomeGrocer.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The newest PYMNTS eBook is full of expert insight into the future of B2B payments, from commercial cards to accounts receivable. This week’s B2B Data Digest pulls some of the highlights from that eBook and serves up the numbers behind the forecasts. — $20 trillion: the expected valuation of the B2B payments market.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

It’s one that’s difficult to predict, as evidenced by all of the conflicting holiday spending forecasts. It’s the ability to do fulfillment from those local stores that accounts for the increase,” Dupre explained. “It It wasn’t that long ago that retailers fulfilled through a distribution or fulfillment center.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Street, chilled by the forecast, sent Snap’s stock down such that the firm hit an all-time intraday trading low on October 9, and finds its share price down 55 percent from its initial public offering (IPO) in March of last year. Nathanson went on to slash his revenue estimates for Snap Inc. Snap has declined to comment on the ruling.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Official accounts note that the colonists ate “wild fowl” at the first feast — but most historians agree that could also mean duck or goose. Before the new spike in cases, 55 million Americans were forecast to travel during Thanksgiving, down at least 10 percent and the largest year-over-year decrease since 2008.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2017

The eCommerce giant said that the new initiative sends alerts to parents when youngsters find something they want to buy, and parents can approve the order. The clearinghouse system is forecasting CAGR of around two percent for roughly the next decade. Approval rates are (slightly) up, according to the latest lending index numbers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

But this week, buoyed by a string of rather encouraging numbers, retail is sizzling, and not at all softly. That combination of factors, economists think, will push very powerful growth figures when the Q2 numbers are out. But even accounting for inflation, Americans are also buying more. According to Moody’s forecasts, U.S.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

And that the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. The same media that had declared Walmart a lethargic, brick-and-mortar victim to Amazon’s nimble, eCommerce prowess is now Walmart’s biggest fan. Amazon’s even one of a small number of retailers tapped by the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

Some might think of eCommerce as a global force, where technology underpins transactions done 24/7, and where even the smallest businesses can see significant top-line gains as they tap new markets. Chinese companies have to work with banks and regulators, increasingly on a daily basis, as they pursue outbound eCommerce.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

According to the report, 85 million smartwatches are forecast to be sold next year, a figure that will hit 137 million by 2022. Fitness tracker sales are forecast to fall by 43 million units in 2018, and are predicted to fall to 39 million total units sold by 2022. percent last year, 1.2 percent better than seen in 2015.

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