Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Atlantic ) • ‘Like a cat with nine lives’: how the British corner shop has survived – and thrived : There are almost 50,000 convenience stores in the UK, offering everything from fruit and veg to home-cooked curries. Now it’s coming for the world. All it has to do is be uninsurable. (

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MARCH 27, 2020

Dog food sales are up 54 percent and cat food sales are up 52 percent when compared to a week ago, according to Nielsen data. Petco has decided to stay open during the crisis, saying that it accounts for almost 33 percent of all dog and cat food sales in the country, as well as half of sales of fish and other pet food.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

Cat Rock , a capital management firm that has a 2.6 We have been Just Eat shareholders for over two and a half years, and we are deeply committed to helping Just Eat realize its great potential,” Alex Captain, founder and managing partner of Cat Rock, said in a press release. “We stake in Just Eat and a 5.9

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 21, 2023

Boston Review ) • The Chess World’s New Villain: A Cat Named Mittens : A ruthless bot with an innocuous avatar is driving chess players crazy. ( Longreads ) • The Case for Abolishing Elections : They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. Wall Street Journal ) • “Monorail!”

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CFA Institute

JUNE 21, 2021

What role might catastrophe bonds, or cat bonds, play in a diversified portfolio?

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 25, 2023

Take Care of Dogs and Cats If you love animals and want to earn money taking care of them, several platforms can help turn your dream into a reality. For example, Rover.com lets you provide basic care for dogs or cats in your home, or you can pick up dog walking gigs. Another mobile app, called Wag! lets you do more of the same.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It all goes wrong when Homer finds out from a floating pizza cat that “the NFT craze is over” The episode has been widely applauded by NFT fans and sceptics alike for successfully poking fun at a side of the crypto world that exploded a couple of years ago but has now gone very quiet. (

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JUNE 18, 2019

Pet retail is having a moment, with innovation and other efforts helping merchants better reach owners of dogs, cats and other household animals. In addition, Walmart will roll out a WalmartPetRX.com eCommerce pet pharmacy with prescriptions for cats, dogs, horses and livestock. That feature just launched about six weeks ago.

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JULY 28, 2019

It’s also is a triumph for hedge fund investor Cat Rock Capital , who is invested in both companies and has asked for a deal, the Financial Times reported. Cat Rock said in part that “a merger with a well-run industry peer is a very attractive avenue for securing world-class leadership, delivery expertise, and a premium.”.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Investor Cat Rock owns 5.9 This revised Prosus offer is wholly inadequate and shows Just Eat shareholders that Prosus cannot muster a credible bid,” Cat Rock told Reuters. percent of Takeaway and 2.6 percent of Just Eat. 12, both bidders are expected to report “how many shares their offers have won.”

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CFO Thought Leader

MAY 14, 2024

In the pet category, we have leadership positions in dog snacks with Milk-Bone and cat food with Meow Mix. We also are a leader in the at-home coffee space, with brands like Folgers, Dunkin’, and Café Bustelo. We recently completed the acquisition of Hostess Brands, which provides us entry into the sweet baked snack segment.

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Anaplan

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Managing them is less like herding cats—it’s more like herding sharks. Managing a sales team is not for the faint of heart. By nature, salespeople are strong-willed and focused on winning. Except in this case, you have to get each … 10 tips for improving sales management Read More »

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

That’s because of the way we assign blame when accidents do happen.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) denied Mastercard’s appeal. The case dates back to 2016, when Sainsbury and other retailers filed suit against Visa and Mastercard over credit and debit card fees.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

In 2017, it announced plans for 12 new labels to be developed over the next 18 months, building on the success of 2016’s private label kids’ lines Pillowfort and Cat & Jack. Cat & Jack reportedly surpassed the $2 billion mark in 2017, making it one of Target’s biggest brands ever.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Ask for an image of a cat playing on a cell phone in an airplane, and DALL-E will provide one in seconds. ChatGPT is not the only AI tool that seems to do certain creative tasks better and faster than humans. DALL-E, also from OpenAI, provides images. Graphic design becomes possible at scale. High school presentations become rich with images.

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JULY 7, 2017

It announced last week that its LTE Cat M1 network had carried its first successful over-the-air LTE call, proving that Cat M1 VoLTE technology can work on a production network. Meanwhile in Europe, T-Mobile has announced the launch of its new IoT web portal TEO in the Czech Republic.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Cat Cvengros, the group’s vice president of development and marketing, said it’s impossible to build relationships with donors using Facebook. “We Some organizations, like Second Harvest, a food bank in San Jose, California, won’t use Facebook as a central part of fundraising activities for that very reason.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Soon, you may own a pet food bowl — integrated with Internet of Things (IoT) technology and Amazon ’s Dash Replenishment Service (DRS) — that will automatically reorder dog or cat food. Pet owners may not have to worry about running out of pet food ever again. The IoT-enabled device is slated for release in September.

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AUGUST 15, 2017

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, the law firm that lodged a £ 14 billion consumer collective action against Mastercard, is gearing up to appeal a rejection by the United Kingdom’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in July.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

We might all be in the middle of one of the greatest — and most vital — cat-and-mouse games of all time. Fraud detection is always a cat-and-mouse game,” he said, and that appears unlikely to change in the future, especially as ever-more emerging markets embrace digital payments and eCommerce. The cat-and-mouse game continues.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

Lemonade, since its IPO earlier in the summer, has expanded its offerings from homeowners insurance to also include health insurance for cats and dogs. NCino, for example, announced it was planning to raise as much as $253.5 million in its IPO, which would allow it to raise around 21 percent more than it would have otherwise.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Although canine scams are the most prevalent, the BBB said about 12 percent of the pet-related complaints it receives involve cats or kittens. And the pandemic pop has segued into a holiday hustle, with 337 puppy scam reports being filed in November, versus less than 80 in 2019. Not Just Puppies.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2020

The occasional cat or small child wandering through the shot damages the facade from time to time, but the effort is being made. Whether they’re a dog lover or a cat fan, what they eat, or even what their pajama bottoms look like (should someone forget that they only got half-dressed that day and stand up during the call).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

That support covers a range of animal welfare programs for dogs, cats, horses, and farm animals, and we’re grateful to Amazon and their customers for helping us provide vulnerable animals with the care they need and deserve.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The cat-and-mouse game between law enforcement and code-abusing felons is entering a new year, and a new phase. But with new capabilities like device recognition, augmented analytics and data-lake enrichment, plus the intuition of human analysts, the cats are winning their eternal fight with kleptomaniacal cyber-mice.

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CFO Simplified

DECEMBER 10, 2021

To paraphrase the conversation between Alice and the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”. If you are not familiar with how to develop, implement, and follow up on these annual planning processes, there are professional services firms that can assist you.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Lemonade launched health insurance for cats and dogs this past July. The insurer said it plans to expand its presence in Europe during the fourth quarter by offering insurance services in France, and it also plans to test a life insurance product within the next 90 days.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2019

In addition, Walmart will roll out a WalmartPetRX.com eCommerce pet pharmacy with prescriptions for cats, dogs, horses and livestock. But wellness is only part of the battle over pets — indeed, the number of cat and dog healthcare products on Walmart’s website has risen by approximately 60 percent during the past year.

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JULY 14, 2020

These are the fearless ones, tired of talking to the cat. In The Great Reopening: Shifting Preferences edition, we described “office shifters” as “consumers who have shifted to working from home and want to go back to being outdoors and working in office environments.”.

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JULY 3, 2017

The quartet is part of a strategy to bring an even dozen new brands — on the heels of successful ones such as Cat & Jack — to private label Target offerings through the next several months. The WSJ noted that the first of these, Cloud Island, which focused on home décor, came out in May.

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JANUARY 4, 2019

No More Cat-and-Mouse. It’s like a cat-and-mouse game, and it has short benefit,” she said. And that brings us to friction — specifically, the introduction of enough friction into certain online processes that can help reduce that ROI for fraudsters.

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APRIL 3, 2019

Although the eCommerce company is geared toward cats and dogs, it also has offerings for other animals such as rabbits, turtles, lizards and guinea pigs. A successful listing would contribute to the $2.6 billion that companies in China have taken in through “first-time overseas share sales this year,” per the report.

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JULY 30, 2019

Which means out of the 200 million or so cats or dogs in the U.S., Which is a great improvement over the current situation, where there are 100 million dogs and cats in the U.S. And that is for a healthy animal simply needing wellness visits, preventative medicine and the occasional diagnostic screening.

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The Charity CFO

APRIL 18, 2024

The cost of cat and dog food is going up, so your expenses are higher to feed the animals in your care. Higher costs affect nonprofits on two sides: Higher overall expenses for the nonprofit itself Lower revenues from decreased donations Say you run an animal shelter.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

In a press release , Overstock said it plans to pay its commercial activity taxes (CAT) in Ohio this coming February using the state’s recently launched OhioCrypto.com platform, which lets taxpayers pay state business taxes with bitcoin. Overstock , the online retailer and blockchain company, announced Thursday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Hide and seek is fun when you’re five, but it’s a tedious cat-and-mouse affair after you grow up and it turns into an interminable bout of whack-a-mole with invisible thieves. Invisible” is the operative word here, as the tsunami of remote onboarding triggered by COVID lockdowns has given fraudsters yet more cover to add to their anonymity.

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