CFO News Room

DECEMBER 14, 2022

With interest rates already taking a toll on housing, consumer spending and business decisions on hiring and investment remain critical to the economic outlook. The real retail sales indicator improved from a negative trend to a neutral trend. Retail Spending Was Strong in October, but the Trend Is Flat.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

China saw retail sales increase last month for the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak, another sign of the country’s wider recovery. The latest numbers were a surprise as economists had predicted retail sales would be flat. The latest numbers were a surprise as economists had predicted retail sales would be flat.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

retail and economic recovery is still facing serious headwinds. retail sales, which exceeded forecasts in June. Retail spending increased 7.5 What was not clear was the effect stimulus funds made on retail spend. But the May and June spikes returned retail sales levels to pre-pandemic numbers.

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Corporate Finance Lab

APRIL 16, 2023

As we appear to be past the hype, burning legal questions to understand the legal landscape for alternative investment funds, and in particular European SPACs come to the fore. One of these questions is whether European SPACs are subject to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD)? SPACs typically work as follows.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

Real estate trends for retailers are back in the news this week, as the pandemic-driven brick-and-mortar market starts to produce new business models and a fair amount of stability. The new business model involves leasing options for the retail sector. retail portfolio valued at $5.9 Example: One of the U.K.’s which owns 32.5

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 21, 2023

related investing news Alphabet — The Google parent saw shares rise 3.6% after CEO Sundar Pichai announced the company will lay off 12,000 employees and explained in a memo that the company “hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today.” year over year. Source link

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

Consumers want to invest in high-end items and home improvement projects to enhance their surroundings even amid economic concerns. is comprising nearly half of the retail growth in the U.S. 85%: Proportion of retail sales that stores accounted for as of 2019. 9M: Number of customers Afterpay has attracted since its U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

New developments are focusing on supply chain, government activity and infrastructure to improve the customer experience as post-pandemic retail finds its legs. Retailers that sign up for the new program will receive discounts of up to 40 percent on FedEx Ground and 50 percent on FedEx Express services.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

In the latest numbers, August came in at 135.1, while the July number was 135.8. While other parts of the economy may show some weakening, consumers have remained confident and willing to spend,” said Lynn Franco, the Conference Board’s senior director of economic indicators, according to CNBC. From where might the drag stem?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

Wednesday’s Commerce Department retail sales figures showed in no uncertain terms that consumer spending for non-essential goods has taken a huge hit. In just 10 days, as coronavirus numbers climbed and stores were ordered to shut down, that 29.5 percent) and furniture (26.8 The research sweep of March 6 showed that only 29.5

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The solid labor market supports positive consumer attitudes but that is offset but high inflation and rapid interest rate increases that threaten future economic growth. The real retail sales indicator weakened from a neutral trend to a negative trend. Solid Third Quarter GDP Number Masks Pockets of Weakness.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Consumers are firing brick-and-mortar retailers from the jobs they held years and decades before. To get their shopping jobs done, consumers are now hiring retailers that make it convenient to do business – anywhere, anytime, through any channel and on their terms. But it’s more than that.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

The question of whether a company is making or losing money should be a simple one to answer, especially in an age where accounting statements are governed by a myriad of rules, and a legion of number-crunchers follow these rules to report profits generated by a firm. The numbers yield interesting insights. .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Consumers confronting the COVID-19 outbreak are buying less and saving what they can, and retailers’ revenues are plummeting as a result. Retailers are passing this financial uncertainty onto their vendors, too, forcing many to take drastic measures to stay afloat. Our analysis finds that 58.4 Another 13.7 Our research shows that 49.1

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

There is one certainty when it comes to investing: Wall Street hates uncertainty. Among the key drivers of that plunge: uncertainty over COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus ; its spread and lethality; and perhaps most of all, the economic impact. That may portend a bit of bumpiness for retailers like Target.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

The results reversed a trend from last quarter, where the chain was one of many physical retailers facing a tepid holiday season that missed analyst expectations for sales, comparable-sales growth and earnings across the board. But things have reversed dramatically for the retailer amid the COVID-19 pandemic. percent to $134.6

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

That bias notwithstanding, these seven companies have been extraordinary investments, not just in 2023, but over the last decade, and there are lessons that we can learn from looking at the past. First, let's look at the performance of these seven stocks in 2023, when their collective market capitalization increased by a staggering $5.1

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Does a softness in investment activity by U.S. The implication, the newswire said, is that there could be a slowdown in economic activity into the third quarter, which ends in September. The implication, the newswire said, is that there could be a slowdown in economic activity into the third quarter, which ends in September.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Most economic downturns hit lower-income Americans hardest, but this time is different. Here’s your investing playbook. Bloomberg ) • Al Gore’s Struggles With ESG Show the Messiness of Green Investing : If the former veep’s Generation investment firm has trouble meeting lofty environmental and financial goals, who can?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The coronavirus has far-reaching impacts that extend beyond health, with a wide range of economic effects in sectors ranging from transportation to telecom and retail. And, in brick-and-mortar news, Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing has reportedly reopened roughly 100 retail locations in China as of last week.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2017

As Walmart faces a growing number of retail rivals in the Brazilian market, the retailer appears to be playing defense, investing about $316 million in its Brazilian Walmart locations over the next two years to remodel 120 of its stores in the country.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 8, 2022

More retailers are packing up goods in stores for delivering e-commerce orders as they look to speed up shipments, streamline inventory and make more use of their bricks-and-mortar sites. . Beauty goods retailer. Ulta expanded the number of stores it uses for fulfillment amid the pandemic-driven surge in online shopping.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Private equity firm Silver Lake is leading a group in a $650 billion investment in buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider Klarna , The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. Sweden-based Klarna, which provides the ability to pay for consumer goods with installments at a number of retailers, has seen a boost during the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

ECommerce sales were better than expected in Q2 but dipped in the third quarter, according to Internet Retailer. Non-store eCommerce sales for the three-month period June to August showed an increase of almost 12 percent compared to the previous year, according to the Monthly Retail Trade Report.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

While regulatory and governmental bodies are still debating PSD2’s full reach, the latest PSD2 Tracker looks at how retailers are approaching SCA as they face potential losses under the rule. Per these findings, European businesses could lose as much as $57 billion in economic activity in the year after SCA debuts. To some degree.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Online clothing retailer ThredUP has filed confidentially for an initial public offering (IPO) in the U.S., The company, based in Oakland, California, is one of the growing numbers of eCommerce sites trafficking in used goods, competing with old stalwarts like Salvation Army Thrift Stores. Bloomberg reports.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my last post, I used Facebook’s recent troubles to talk about the importance of corporate governance, and how we, as investors, have abandoned the power to change management at many younger tech companies in return for being able to invest in young tech companies, with growth potential and well-regarded founders.

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Future CFO

APRIL 24, 2022

A small number of rated companies face material credit pressure under our baseline scenario because of refinancing risks amid current market volatility,” noted Chris Park, a Moody's Associate Managing Director. Meanwhile, basic commodity industries would stand to benefit from a supply shock, Moody’s predicted.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 22, 2022

In general, this means that people are more likely to be more aware of how much cash they're holding than the other numbers in their financial life, like the balances on their retirement accounts (which, being less 'immediate' in their intended purpose, are not often at the forefront of most people's minds to the same extent that cash is).

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Business investment declined in three out of four quarters in 2019. The issue may affect first-quarter economic growth in the U.S., economists theorized, and the economic effects of the coronavirus will hit hard, too. Gregory Daco, an economist at Oxford Economics said it was an “ongoing dichotomy.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

“We know already from our work in the FinTech and digital sectors that businesses are facing hurdles when it comes to accessing credit having been locked out of business lending, equity investments or simply are nervous about external finance in the current climate," he said, according to AltFi.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 22, 2022

In general, this means that people are more likely to be more aware of how much cash they're holding than the other numbers in their financial life, like the balances on their retirement accounts (which, being less 'immediate' in their intended purpose, are not often at the forefront of most people's minds to the same extent that cash is).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2021

Thus far, the numbers do not bear out a massive uptake of a business model, that for the stakeholders, is essentially free (There are roughly 38 banks signed on and 5 million users of CoDi, as measured in late 2020). But as Diaz stated, the model is based on sound economic principles. Solving For The Chicken And Egg Problem.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

To help combat the economic decay, the Indian government is looking at deregulation methods, PYMNTS writes. That has created a 55 percent increase in tech investment in the country, which is southeast Asia’s second-biggest economy. The changes were approved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

Sizzle of the Week: Retail’s 2018 Rebound. Retail has had a rough couple of years, as most players that aren’t Amazon have struggled to cross the digital, omnichannel chasm. On the whole, with some notable exceptions, retail has landed on our Fizzle list more often than the Sizzle list in recent memory. Retail sales are up 5.9

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In an interview with Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Nomi Prins takes up and extends the argument that she has made over a series of books, that central bankers are ever-more administering policies that are good for the markets but very bad for the real economy and real people. economy and Wall Street.

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