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OCTOBER 20, 2020

The hotel industry in China is back in business, experiencing year-over-year revenue growth despite the negative economic impact of the worldwide pandemic that locked down most of the globe, according to a Skift report on Tuesday (Oct. The industry’s key metrics were up the week ending Oct. percent over 2019. percent.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

Using that as a benchmark might give us some guidance. The PPP loans are part of the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act passed by Congress last month. … It would not be good to lose them,” Bostic said of businesses with less than 500 employees, according to Reuters. “It

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Global Finance

MAY 8, 2024

The move aligns UOB, which also won the Best Bank in Singapore, with ASEAN’s rise as an economic powerhouse, rapidly transformed via megatrends like supply chain diversification, digitalization and investments in net-zero transitions and a rising middle class. Its expansion into the region via the $5 billion Singapore dollars (about $3.7

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

Thus far, Marcus has taken in retail deposits of more than 21 billion pounds ($26.8 Goldman would have to segregate Marcus from the rest of the company, creating a new legal entity to house the unit’s retail deposits and separate them from other Goldman operations, like investment banking. billion), according to CNBC.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

And several of them are affecting the retail industry. And judging from the continuing proliferation of videos on social media, the ability for retailers to enforce even the minimum safety standards of mask-wearing is risky business for employees. That line of thinking also leads to the counter-currents of retailing.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Retail sales taxes have long been key sources of state governments’ budgets and have been their greatest single stream of revenue since the mid-1900s. . Requiring compliance with levy obligations is unlikely to impose undue economic burdens on businesses thanks to modern technology, the court said, adding that the Quill Corp.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 20, 2024

For example, you can see what’s the biggest drawdown, how long did it last, how long and how often did a strategy beat its benchmark, and by what magnitude. Jim O’Shaugnessy : Momentum is really interesting because academics hate it because there is underlying economic reason why it should make sense – but it does.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

That turns out to be sage advice as the retail sector sets out to recover from an overall double-digit downturn in consumer spending. Wiese and his team have put together several reports that benchmark the current crisis and show the media opportunity, especially for DTC retail , in the current environment.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

It’s not often that Walmart gets upstaged in the world of retail. If Shipt didn’t add a lot to Target’s Q2, the retailer wouldn’t have called it out – and the significance of that was lost on many analysts. Unless Walmart+ is in the mix, it’s hard to say that the retailer is pushing customers toward the digital experience.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

The Trackers use a number of creative methodologies and frameworks that measure and benchmark an ever-changing landscape. Buy now, pay later (BNPL) solutions hold promise in alleviating some of these issues, but many retailers are still taking hands-off approaches to dealing with pandemic-related shifts in consumers’ spending habits. “I

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In some ways, the United States and China exist as mirror images, at least when it comes to economic drivers. The question is a fair one, given the fact that economists think China ’s growth rate will fall below 6 percent, an important benchmark. In other words: Live by the consumer, die by the consumer. The Ripple Effect on Spending.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

The inconsistent start to 2017 from an economic perspective may be starting to even out some as the most recent consumer spending report indicated that consumer spending increased by the most it has all year in April. rebound isn’t an international one-off; Japan and the Eurozone also show signs of growing economic potency.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A disappointing economic report for August, weak retail sales and industrial production and slower job growth are expected to prevent the Fed from increasing interest rates at least until December. Justice Department’s demand for $14 billion from Deutsche Bank concerning claims related to sales of mortgage-backed securities.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. You’re 34th, you’re retiring after 34 years and you trounce what’s really the more appropriate benchmark, I would assume the Russell 2000. a year since 1989. Much better.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2017

That demand for cryptocurrency is likely driven by the fact that, in terms of bitcoin, there is still some debate as to exactly how popular the digital currency is among top retailers. While that number is tiny in world economic scale (U.S. Just the top five cryptocurrencies alone have a market cap of $115 billion,” said Horadan.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

The only metric that Nebraska bested its regional benchmarks on happened to be real wages and that by only 10 basis points. Dismal is the only word that can be used to describe West Virginia’s economic performance as tracked through store fronts. The remaining metrics found the state lagging, on all fronts. West Virginia.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The 2015 holiday sales season was weaker than expected across retail, followed by a plunging and then bumpy stock market in late winter and early spring spurred by uncertainty about the Chinese economy. Brainard is a longtime advocate of continuing stimulus policies, despite signs of economic recovery. percent to 0.5

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. They create the benchmark. So, our active team has been successful outperforming their benchmarks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2016

The retail industry was higher at 86 percent. Uncertainty of economic conditions (33 percent). From a benchmark of 100 in the first quarter of 2007, the SFBI has increased to 112.9 Limited supply of talent (40 percent), especially in the construction (63 percent) and services (50 percent) industries. Challenges. in Q2 2015.

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MAY 18, 2018

“The scale of the proposed transaction, and therefore the quantum of its economics, is wholly different from those we’ve already signed,” the executive said, noting that Kroger was in the best position to be successful in the U.S. based retailers. market, though Ocado plans to have talks with other U.S.-based

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But unlike centuries before, when innovations were only focused on counting and measuring time in order to economize the consumer’s use of it, today’s innovators must do more — because people and businesses want more. and end at 11:59 p.m., 24 hours later. That’s pretty much the way it’s been, well, forever. In fact, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

The benchmark Dow is, of course, within striking distance of the 20,000-point level. Two data points, economic ones, could also be said to have sizzled this past year (and dovetail with the bank stock rally). POS systems were not immune, either, at retail and hotel chains. Bank Stocks. bourses to record levels?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Its index and its benchmark. And Tom has helped with the introduction of GMO’s first retail product, the quality ETF stock symbol Q-L-T-Y-G-M-O has been institutional since they launched in 1977. This is the first time they’re putting out a product for retail. a year, way over both. Morningstar five star gold rated.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. The hedge fund industry, generally, is outperforming their benchmarks. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

You get a BA in economics and poli sci from the University of Delaware. And it had to do with the discipline of the models that he used and how he segmented economic liquidity, investor liquidity, and then technicals and and breath conditions and understood how they melded together. What was the original career plan?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

So I actually went and worked in economics, I was an econometrician. So it’s a problem that institutions offer often suffer from that retail investors do not like you and me, we probably don’t have this bucketing issue. Are, are the clients primarily retail? How ridiculous is that? I don’t know. Is it a mix?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. It had gone from a fairly, fairly heavy retail business to a very institutional business. So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

We’re in the business of sitting in between asset owners, financial advisors, institutions, retail and asset managers, right, the BlackRock, State Street, PIMCO’s of the world, and helping them understand each other. It seems like an easy one, but there’s a lot of missed benchmarking that goes on. RITHOLTZ: Okay.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? And now, some of the retailers are talking about easing Amazon and Walmart. How do you contextualize the economic data and the broad stamp recession when you’re thinking about managing risk? How do you track performance?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. There is above benchmark returns to be generated by active selection of credit quality duration and specific bonds. RIEDER: And all of a sudden, you change the economic paradigm so darn fast. There is alpha. Can you manage that through downturns?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And economic indicators, like the unemployment rate or the claims data, and you know, we actually did some scenario analysis around that recently, just talking about, Hey, what happens if the employment rate rises versus falls? I mean, I, I haven’t done that much work. I think, I think it’s probably more useful.

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