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China’s Meal Delivery Service Meituan Now Valued At $100B

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Hong Kong’s Meituan , a food delivery service, hit a valuation of $100 billion on Tuesday (May 26) as shares soared, according to TechCrunch. Shares rose to $138 Hong Kong dollars ($17.80) following a decrease in the first quarter that wasn’t as sharp as the company predicted, and a net loss of 1.58 Tencent and Alibaba are the others.

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Uber’s IPO: Pricey And Dicey Or Poised For Liftoff?

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Last year, noted the WSJ , the valuation had been rumored to be $120 billion, if and when the ride-hailing giant came to market. Now, that number is closer to $82 billion. Losses, though, are losses across that model, evidenced by the latest showings for Lyft, which logged $1.1 Well, that covers a lot of, ahem, ground.

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Amazon’s Uncharted Territory And Travels On Indian Trains

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But the category of perishables marks new territory for Amazon, which The Motley Fool thinks could present a challenge and put a deep dent in short-term profits. Now, Amazon is experimenting, it seems, in a sector with narrow profit margins, and it has the luxury to do so. In the U.S., UberEATS and GrubHub, however, are growing.

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Putting the (Insta)cart before the (Grocery) horse: A COVID Favorite's Reality Check!

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Customers get the time-savings and convenience from having grocery shopping (and delivery, if chosen) done for them, but they pay in the form on both delivery fees and a service charge of 5-10% of the bill, depending on the store picked and the number of items in the basket.

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Inventory Management in Manufacturing

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That’s because inventory is a key driver of several profit & loss (P&L) statement components, from revenue all the way down to net profit. Conversely, overstating inventory valuation will lead an organization to think it has too much inventory on hand. A benchmark exercise can also provide insight here.

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

Barry Ritholtz

I was thinking any number of things and mostly that I didn’t really know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I was not kind of at all informed by, you know, gender norms that people asked me a lot about now, in particular how do you know a woman, how did you think about ending up in this thing? RITHOLTZ: Is that true?

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

So a lot of the headline names, you see a lot of the stories you see about, about the financial crisis, a significant number of, of those investors we were helping in security selection, modeling, and analytics. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.