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To Bitcoin or not to Bitcoin? A Corporate Cash Question!

Musings on Markets

Thus, a retail store that had scores of cash customers, it was argued, needed to hold more cash, often in the form of currency, to meet its transactional needs, than a company with corporate suppliers and business customers, with predictable patterns in operations.

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Investing Politics: Globalization Backlash and Government Disruption!

Musings on Markets

Blue-collar workers in developed markets : The flip side of the rise of China and other countries as manufacturing hubs, with lower costs of operation, has been the loss of manufacturing clout and jobs for the West, with factory workers in the United States, UK and Europe bearing the brunt of the cost.

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Meta, Amazon, Snap, Pinterest: What to Watch in the Stock Market Today

CFO News Room

Technology shares are leading losses after Facebook parent Meta Platforms surprised investors with a bigger-than-expected profit drop. billion profit in the recent quarter. Eli Lilly reported quarterly profit and revenue that beat forecasts. Apple and Tesla were also down. ConocoPhillips reported a $2.6 Chart of the Day.

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World’s Best Banks 2024: Global Winners

Global Finance

The banks “failed as a result of a combination of unrealized interest rate losses from their long-term, fixed-rate assets and the loss of the low-rate deposits that had funded these assets,” Larry Wall, research center executive director of the Atlanta Fed’s Center for Financial Innovation and Stability, explained in a blog post.

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Amazon’s Retail Swiss Army Knife

PYMNTS

At the ripe old age of 120, the Swiss Army knife holds a unique place in retail. Now, the idea of an Amazon Echo with a touchscreen is not exactly new — it was reported in November 2016 that mega e-retailer Amazon was working on such a device — whose code name is said to be the Amazon Knight. Many of whom are also named Karl.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

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 Wired ) • Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study shows. It was likely closer to 5 percent. (

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How to mitigate insolvency risk

Future CFO

Declining profitability: For example, are your sales lower or your cost of goods sold higher? Poor interest coverage ratio: This shows operating profits may not be able to cover interest expenses. Shorten your supply chains and avoid concentration in one geographic region. Weakened balance sheet.