CFO Talks

MAY 20, 2025

Through these measures, Edcon managed to preserve a significant number of jobs and maintain a presence in the South African retail market, albeit in a leaner form. Asset Sales : Selling off certain brands and divisions to raise capital. Debt Reorganisation : Negotiating with creditors to restructure existing debt obligations.

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Global Finance

JULY 14, 2025

But the number of visitors has trended downward and the new remittance tax in President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Act have highlighted the need for the island nation to accelerate its long march diversifying the economy.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

00:27:54 [Speaker Changed] Let’s put some, some numbers, some mean on that bone. 00:44:09 [Speaker Changed] Variance really candidly, just been pay attention to what the numbers say and pay attention to the data. And be sure and check out my new book, how Not to Invest the Bad Ideas, numbers, and Behavior that Destroys Wealth.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Jimena Blanco: We produce risk indices on over 200 issues across 198 countries, and when we look at our data, we’re seeing risks increase across a number of areas in ways we haven’t seen before. For example, consider the recent storm in Valencia, where people were unable to communicate, transport goods, or clear roads.

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Global Finance

MAY 1, 2025

Tam Digital Bank, KFH’s digital bank in Kuwait, recorded strong customer numbers and transaction growth. The fund comprises of two types of assets: industrial and transportation logistics. The banking group’s financial profile is very sound. In October 2024, GFH issued a $500 million, five-year sukuk.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

But in fact, it is still the case that if you think about it, well hotel costs are important for a number of different reasons. And this has raised a number of important questions in financial markets. Even the last non-farm payrolls number we got was of course also very strong. Why are we looking at this?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 17, 2025

So number one on the New York Times list? 00:22:23 [Speaker Changed] Not number one, but it was in the top f whatever it made the list. Time, it, it seemed like a big number at the time, 787 billion. So right now what the federal government, this last fiscal year spent, let me just use rough numbers. And collects 5.2

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The Big Picture

JUNE 16, 2025

There are a number of people who have said, and I’ve been swayed in this direction, Hey, when you’re 20, 25 years old and you don’t need this money for 30, 40, 50 years, do you really need bonds to offset the volatility of equities? Some crazy number writing a monthly column for them. You can’t execute.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 11, 2025

I grew up there, but in a, in a number of other countries as well. Is this, have we been through more than the usual number of shocks or does it just seem that way recently? But look, if you want to improve the productivity growth in taxi transportation, we have to talk about inputs and outputs, right? I’m not American.

Economics 52

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 20, 2025

In addition, they’ve put up some really impressive numbers over the past 30 years, which has given them the opportunity to donate tens of millions of dollars to their favorite organizations. 00:01:42 [Speaker Changed] The career plan originally was urban development and transportation. We don’t give exact numbers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

HERE Technologies , a mapping and location data company, has released a new mobile transportation app called SoMo that hinges on a social aspect, according to a report from VentureBeat. The app combines all transportation – public, private and personal – and lets users see all options at once.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The airline joins a growing group of companies—from Breeze Airways to Resy to Facebook—that eliminate or make phone numbers extra hard for customers to find. The budget carrier dropped its phone service option last month, leaving customers to use chat functions or social media to resolve issues.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

For example, wholesale auto sellers who used to deal mostly in person have pivoted — and largely stayed — with their new digital model, in turn bringing a surge of business to transportation providers like Manheim Logistics. “As So we saw an uptick in the number of new clients needing help with longer moves,” he added.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

And in transportation, Lyft is innovating on its technology stack as the firm rolls out features like the Lyft matching platform. Data: 100K: Minimum number of self-driving rides Lyft has provided to users in Las Vegas. 301: Number of David’s Bridal brick-and-mortar stores. All this, Today in Data.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a move that lets users place and get phone calls through their Alexa gadgets, Amazon is launching a new collaboration with AT&T that will enable consumers to connect their phone numbers with their Alexa accounts, The Verge reported. And, with Amazon’s current Away Mode turned on, calls can be temporarily disabled.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the total number of job openings in the economy decreased to 10.334 million in October, down from 10.687 million in September. October was the fifth decline in the last seven months since hitting a record high in March (see first chart). Robert Hughes.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reported that it served over 800,000 individuals at American airport screening lanes Sunday (Aug. The biggest 20 airlines in the country transported just over 16 million travelers in June, which marked an 80 percent drop compared to June 2019 yet almost two times as many people as May.

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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. The number of unemployed persons, at 6.5 The number of long-term unemployed (people who have been jobless for 27 weeks or more) declined to 1.7 represented a slight increase of 0.1

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

These credentials will become ever-present as people wend their way through airport and public transportation settings, ports and check-in kiosks. But, of course, how we get there could involve a number of pathways.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

With ridesharing having taken a hit from the pandemic, Uber is pushing into a new sector: public transportation. Uber — or Uber’s software, to be exact — will soon be managing public transportation for Marin County in the San Francisco Bay area, the Financial Times (FT) reported.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

percent, or $14 billion — although the numbers might not hold if the pandemic continues to threaten recovery, according to a report from the U.S. The number, which values the sector at $206.9 During that time, numbers fell 16.7 percent for everything except transportation, and 9.2 Census Bureau. percent and 18.3

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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. AT&T Cybersecurity also won’t participate, which brings the total number of firms that have withdrawn to 14. The number includes seven from the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The support page for Amazon Web Services’ status page said it was experiencing problems with Kinesis, its service that processes large streams of data, causing “increased error rates” for a number of websites. Kinesis, as described on the AWS site is “a massively scalable and durable real-time data streaming service.

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Transportation Numbers 113

PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

The company almost doubled its revenue and profit numbers while spending more than $9 billion on capital improvement projects. Among those numbers: Operating cash flow increased 42 percent to $51.2 Other capital expenditures went to fulfillment, transportation and investments in Amazon Web Services. billion compared with $36.0

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The first were commuters who used Lime scooters to get to and from work or to close the “first-and last-mile” piece of their commutes from another transportation source. Fun, she noted, and in many cases also safer feeling, since Lime scooters are an open-air method of transportation.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

billion compared to the previous quarter, as pay-TV subscriber numbers declined. Robinson — The stock fell 6% after the transportation and logistics company reported disappointing revenue in its latest results. Paramount said revenue for its TV media segment was down 5% to about $4.9 Airbnb — The lodging stock fell 10.1%

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Municipalities could utilize it for everything from street light control and air quality monitoring to transportation safety. They want to deploy these multiple [IoT] services, [but that] truly starts with one service [platform] and one network, [like in] transportation. An integrated IoT gateway can connect all of these systems.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

According to reports Wednesday (June 17), the company is offering its software — the programming and analytics that underpin its core ride-hailing unit — to a number of outside entities. Marin Transit and the Transportation Authority of Marin also said they will make transit schedules and discounts available within the Uber app.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Within infrastructure, one of the key focus areas is leveraging multimodal transport infrastructure to reduce logistics costs, thereby improving India’s overall competitiveness. However, a number of policy reforms are essential for creating a sustainable private investment eco-system, many of which are outside the purview of the budget.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

Talk of a venture capital plummet continues to grow, particularly in Europe, where new data from Consultancy Europe revealed that the number of venture capital deals for startups across the continent has declined every quarter since Q1 2019. earlier this year.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The good news is that we’ll need a lot less costly packaging, manufacturing, supply chain, and transport expenditures. The bad news is that folks who once manufactured, made packaging, or distributed and transported products are going to have to find something else to do. Virality is not restricted to any one type of content.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

“I think it’s going to take two to three years to get consumer behaviors back, but we do know there is a tremendous amount of pent-up demand for transportation, for travel, for mobility – and we’re ready to serve customers when they’re ready to go.” It may take a while.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The phone number will be associated with the account for future ride requests. Uber is offering the new service to ensure that it’s reaching all segments of the population, as there are a number of older consumers who can’t access the internet on their phones. Payments will be deducted from the linked account.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

To that end, American Airlines Group (and a number of peers) said last week that it has shifted some of its passenger jets – where, of course, passengers would have filled the space – and put them to work transporting cargo. The planes, Boeing Co. restrictions on European countries.” restrictions on European countries.”

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2017

Petersburg, among a number of others. While every city has its own characteristics, virtually all of them are dealing with congestion and pollution, hence they are eager to shift passengers from cars to public transport,” said Pablo Tomasi, senior analyst, smart cities and IoT at IHS Markit.

Transportation 80

Transportation Budgeting Numbers Technology 80

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

IoT devices still have a number of security weaknesses that providers must address as the technology becomes a larger part of consumers’ daily lives. How Beep Is Bringing Safe, IoT-Powered Self-Driving Shuttles To Public Transportation. Around The IoT World. About the Tracker.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 1, 2023

The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) reports that Airline Transport Pilot Certificates (which require the 1,500 flight hours) are being issued at a pace that will replace retiring pilots, but will not account for growth in demand.

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