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FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The new benchmark 6.54%-2032 bond yield ended 14 basis points higher at 6.8279%, compared to 6.6841%. The old benchmark 6.10%-2031 bond yield ended 16 basis points up at 6.8458%, as against 6.6829% close on Monday.

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JULY 22, 2020

A new advocacy group dedicated to direct-to-consumer retail was announced this week with representation from Google and several major retailers including QVC, Brooks Brothers and Lane Bryant. It foresees a short-term evolution of retailing to an all-DTC world.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The RBI has kept rates unchanged since raising the benchmark repo rate to 6.5% Despite a slight decrease in CPI-based retail inflation in August, it remains above the RBI's target of 6%. in February.

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APRIL 15, 2020

Department of Commerce released its retail sales results for March, showing record-setting declines due to changes in consumer behavior and the COVID-19 lockdown. But in the details, retailers can see the damage done to some sectors and the advantage gained by others. Overall sales fell 8.7 Clothing stores dropped 50.5

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 2, 2023

That family office was created to manage the assets of Julius Rosenwald, who had steered Sears into a retailing giant and took them public in 1906. Over his 32-year tenure, the fund has beaten 100% of peers, and outperformed the Russell 2000 benchmark by 3.49% annually, and has more than doubled the performance of the S&P 500.

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MAY 12, 2023

After scrutiny, the RBI found that the bank failed to link interest on floating rate retail loans and loans to MSME to an external benchmark and also failed to link interest on floating rate rupee loans sanctioned and renewed during financial year 2020-21 to its Marginal Cost of Lending Rate (MCLR).

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Prices of durables have been falling for five straight months ( Wall Street Journal ) • US retail lobbyists retract key claim on ‘organized’ retail crime : The main lobbying group for U.S. It produced the report in collaboration with private security firm K2 Integrity. The FDA Is In Its Way.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The prediction of a smaller rate hike can be attributed to softening of retail inflation and the US Federal Reserve moderating the pace of increase in its benchmark interest rate. The decision of RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das-headed six-member MPC will be announced on Wednesday at 10 am.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

WBR Digital and eTail just released a new benchmarking report on retail omnichannel adoption. The report is based on the responses of 98 executives from multiple sectors — specialty retail, stand apparel, high-end fashion and more — who are all leaders in either multichannel, pure-play, in-store only or other types of retail.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Growth in employment continued in leisure and hospitality, professional and business services, retail trade, and transportation and warehousing. Survey data have been revised as a result of an annual benchmarking process and the updating of seasonal adjustment factors. Biggest Job Gains by Industry. of the January total of 467,000.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Along with the latest on payroll employment, unemployment, and wage growth, we will also get the final benchmark revisions for the establishment survey (CES). Preliminary benchmark revisions suggest job growth will be even stronger over the last two years than the 11.2 million previously reported.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 14, 2023

He’s giving a demo of the future of war: the military-retail complex. Orbis deploys a unique fee arrangement , where they are only paid a fee when they outperform their benchmark and refund fees to clients when they underperform. Are they right? ( NOEMA ) • Has Bob Iger Lost the Magic? The New Kings of Wall Street Aren’t Banks.

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MARCH 24, 2017

A new study from Oracle revealed that consumers are more willing to engage with brands that offer new retail technology if they are able to exert control over their experience. This signals brands to focus on building a strong foundation to win trust.

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JUNE 7, 2019

Single consumers are a force of nature as well when it comes to retail. Single people, often neglected by many retailers – at least based on complaints and stereotypes found online – seem to be getting fresh attention in this era of online and mobile shopping, and shopping clubs. Take Costco, for instance. Singles’ Day.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

annually, significantly outperforming its benchmark (its minimum is 5 million). ” GMO, which is primarily an institutional fund, decided to make an ETF available to retail investors for the first time since its 1977 inception.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

In retailing, as a Nobel laureate once wrote (and sort of sang!), “the times they are a-changin” — a sentiment that extends handily to gift cards. Unless retailers make it hard. And surprisingly, a number of retailers are missing the boat when it comes to digital gifting. The First Number — 10. And far from a perfect 10.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 21, 2022

For consumer brands doing business in China, no date on the retail calendar carries more weight than November 11, also known as Singles’ Day. Today, the event is the pinnacle of the global retail calendar, with over 290,000 brands offering 17 million products to over 1 billion annual active consumers across Alibaba’s ecosystem this year.

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JULY 21, 2017

No longer are retailers working with marketers to figure out a way to mass market products and services. With the advent of connected devices in the palm of almost every consumer’s hand, the retail ecosystem has certainly seen a shift. Through this omnichannel experience, retailers have more ways to connect with consumers.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In data that will likely surprise anyone who has avidly watched retail over the last few years, the market is trending strongly toward same-day delivery. According to the “2017 Digital Commerce Benchmark Survey,” conducted by Boston Retail Partners (BRP), some 65 percent of retailers will offer same-day delivery within the next two years.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

economy, especially when it comes to retail and technology. And Greenlight Capital added new positions to retailers including Dollar Tree , Dollar General , Gap , and TJX Companies , the parent company of TJ Maxx and HomeGoods , while activist fund Jana Partners took new positions in Wells Fargo & Co and food delivery company GrubHub.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Black Friday sales stretched across the entire month of November as retailers launched special deals as early as Nov. Our Payment Optimization Framework provides a data-driven approach to continuously monitoring, benchmarking and optimizing payment acceptance,” Smith said. .

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

The company aims to boost retailers' ability to gather inventory for their stores. The MENAP region has a significant opportunity to increase its economic prosperity by unlocking the productivity delta that exists between the region and global benchmarks," they said in a statement.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

based retailers slipped more than had been forecast last month. It should be noted that this is one of the last “major” economic reports being released ahead of the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week and may presage a continued reticence to raise benchmark interest rates (and risk choking off consumer spending even more).

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JANUARY 19, 2017

And in the retail world, apparently, that holds as well. Apparently, while it may seem like a no-brainer, consumers are both happy and loyal when brands deliver on what they feel they were promised from a retailer. Retailers need to deliver what they promised consumers. Bottom line?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Institutional Investor ) • Retail Group Retracts Startling Claim About ‘Organized’ Shoplifting : The National Retail Federation had said that nearly half of the industry’s $94.5 billion in missing merchandise in 2021 was the result of organized theft. It was likely closer to 5 percent. ( It was likely closer to 5 percent. (

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

These are tough times to be tangible — as in brick-and-mortar, in retailing at least. The physical retailer is constrained by square footage, the hybrid retailer joining on an eCommerce platform less so, especially with the drop shipping. The upshot is that, through the drop-ship model, they do not need to hold more inventory.

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JUNE 3, 2016

Amazon Prime might have been a good little idea, the naysayers nay-said, but once shoppers have to start shelling out higher fees for the privilege of faster shipping, those “loyal” customers would run into the waiting arms of the retailers they’d left behind. That figure creeps up to a near-total 96 percent.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

retail and food services sales for December 2020 fell 0.7 Retail trade sales dropped 0.3 Census Bureau said that the advance estimates are based on a smaller portion of its complete retail and food services sample. "A The Census Bureau said the January 2021 Advance Monthly Retail report is set to be published on Feb.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

It provides a performance score and benchmarks against industry best practices and provides customized recommendations to meet the challenge, Mastercard said. Fortunately, Cadore quickly pivoted her business to focus on online sales and partnerships with online retailers.

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MAY 24, 2016

Retail earnings may have long been looked upon as a benchmark for measuring the growth of the economy but not anymore. The shift in calibration comes as signs of weakening sales in the earnings reports of numerous major retailers were counteracted by the U.S economy — retail.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

A retailer and a cement company don’t have the same needs or strategies. By implementing these ambitious but tangible KPIs, Saur in 2021 raised €950 million (US$1 billion) in environmental, social, and governance bonds, the first water company to reach that benchmark. Industry and Ecosystem Transformations.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Review the credit terms you extend to customers and suppliers, and benchmark your trade terms against the rest of your industry. Think of the retail shift to online when Covid-19 shut down bricks and mortar establishments overnight. Create a cash buffer that your business can access in an emergency.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

The business of retail apps is booming. And 303 of the world’s top 500 retailers now have an app. The study, conducted by ARC from Applause, a research group that analyzes the apps economy, looked at 50 of those top retailers that received approximately half of their total sales through mobile apps. billion from $35.48

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

It’s not obvious where you should go,” said Waldman, in a retail environment that, in its tangible form, may be noisy (and may even have “digital noise,” too). That’s a feature that makes sense, said Waldman, only for bigger box retailers. Checkout conversion, online or via mobile, is pretty poor, by anyone’s standards.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Wholesale distributors face “massive complexity,” according to the release, having to juggle numerous products and customers, along with challenges from new startups or nontraditional types of retail.

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MARCH 28, 2024

How KPIs Help Businesses Imagine two management teams at the helm of similar retail businesses with different small business strategies. This contrast highlights how KPI benchmarking can be used to not only avert crises but also to foster a sense of achievement and collaboration among team members.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has set up a steering committee to oversee an industry-wide interest rate benchmark transition from the Singapore dollar (SGD) Swap Offer Rate (SOR) to the Singapore Overnight Rate Average (SORA), in response to the discontinuation of the use of Libor (London Inter-bank Offered Rate) in Dec 2021. .

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