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NOVEMBER 5, 2016

And though putting an end to a 108-year championship drought has brought with it much excitement, media attention and disbelief, it’s also delivered big gains in commerce. million last weekend when games 3,4 and 5 of the World Series took place in the city. The morning after the big win (Nov. DNAinfo.com reported.

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JULY 5, 2018

The company gained a higher profile on Thursday (July 5) via an article about it in The New York Times , and that is all but certain to inject fresh energy into the ongoing debates about consumer privacy and data security. Samba also offers digital tags that let companies figure out who visits their websites after ads appear.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

When Kohl’s decided to bring Amazon into its store locations about a year ago, many commentators wondered if the brand had made a big mistake. The big idea is that this is teaching us to think differently,” Gass noted in a recent interview. On the new front, the retailer aspires to be a destination for beauty products.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Whole Foods was colloquially called “Whole Paycheck” for a reason — eating organic comes with a very high price tag. In an attempt to stand out from the big ticket price work of organic grocery, Thrive is looking to undercut the grocery store when it comes to pricing.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The big day has finally arrived: the new iPhones (and the rest of Apple’s fall lineup of devices) will finally get their big public introduction when Tim Cook and company hit the stage in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park in Cupertino later today. The reason? “A A lack of innovative selling points.”.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Non-members pay a $5 shipping free. Offering a $3 across-the-board price tag has a somewhat dollar store feel, and its streamline assortment and design recall an era before private label packaging was an exercise in artistic design. Betting one can beat Amazon or Walmart on price consistently is a big risk.

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JULY 25, 2017

A big payout to be sure, but one that requires a significant upfront investment of time and treasure. At the upper edge of the spectrum, students can be looking at a ~$330,000 total price tag for an education at an elite private college. The breakdown of that funding is $8 million in equity and $5 million in debt financing.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Today, Tradesy has over 5 million users and an investor list that would make most entrepreneurs envious. Social media, particularly Instagram, has emerged of late as a new rival alternative for the shopper looking to buy or sell secondhand couture. The company is considered the top eCommerce website for any fashion maven on the prowl.

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JULY 11, 2016

Walmart has aggressively touted the benefits of the payment platform, saying that 4 out of 5 users would recommend it to others, and that 88 percent of transactions processed through Walmart Pay are conducted by repeat users. The problem is that shoppers do NOT want to carry around cards (or tags) for all the stores where they shop.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Adjaoute agreed, but pointed out that a better system might have made it much harder to turn a blind eye to a big problem like $236 billion-worth of laundered money. Clarity is a big advantage when one is trying to spot bad behavior, he noted. I think regulators are beginning to understand that technology must step in to help here.

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APRIL 17, 2018

million just in taxes from ticket sales, comprising 5 percent of the city’s general fund, while its overall economy enjoys a $106 million boost thanks to the festivals. Here are just a few of the expenses that festivalgoers are tacking on to their weekend price tag (and who’s making money off it). The nearby city of Indio takes in $3.18

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

In the graph below, I list out two measures of expected inflation, one from a inflation expectations ETF ( ProShares Inflation Expectation ETF ) and the other from the Federal Reserve 5-year forward inflation measure , computed as the difference between treasury and TIPs rates.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

Those refunds come care of President Obama’s plan to help struggling student loan borrowers — and they have a price tag attached that is more expensive than previously thought. Al Capone got his start running rum. Watch Boardwalk Empire if you want to get a sense of how this all goes down.

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JULY 19, 2019

But as big as Prime Day was across all of retail, it wasn’t the only thing happening in the ongoing race. By any rational measure, Amazon had a big day on Prime Day. But sharp-eyed members noticed a glitch: The site had marked down almost all of the Prime Day-tagged camera equipment to around $94. It sold out quickly.

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

Apple’s big selling point for the HomePod was its superior auditory quality, which was supposed to justify the $349 price tag. Facebook previously charged a 5 percent transaction fee for all nonprofit fundraisers. Amazon is overhauling the Echo in hopes of stealing some of the HomePod’s thunder. million through the site.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Credit card loans increased 5 percent to $116.4 Mastercard got tagged with a $648.3 And Mastercard wasn’t the only big brand feeling the sting of European regulators wrath. Capital One ’s further reprots domestic card loans increased 8 percent or $5.8 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018, with an ending balance of $107.4

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

It’s the weather is really the big problem. And those are the same problems for big companies as little companies. And so I became a big fan of data and how predictive it can be. And I said to him, “Look, I think I’m a harder worker “and I think I should get $5 an hour.” RITHOLTZ: There are.

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MAY 5, 2017

It seems that businesses are starting to decide that perhaps the Apple Watch isn’t really going to be the next big thing, after all, and are quietly pulling app support for the devices. Over the last few weeks, some pretty big name firms have decided to say sayonara to the Apple Watch App store. And were consumers enraged?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. I also led the Series A — we — Union Square Ventures led the Series A in MongoDB, the big New York City-based success story. It’s so big. I had just finished another project I was been working on. We led the Series A in Etsy.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Lesson 1: Think Big . “We Lesson 5: Data is Power . And actually, that might not be a bad tag line to put on all of 2019 retail — many advances miraculous and unexpected, but all just getting started. It was not all bad news, however, as while some players were coming down in the world, others were rising.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

In the graph below, I list out two measures of expected inflation, one from a inflation expectations ETF ( ProShares Inflation Expectation ETF ) and the other from the Federal Reserve 5-year forward inflation measure , computed as the difference between treasury and TIPs rates.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 1, 2023

Big if true. 5] The CDC site is down — so indicative the CDC can’t even manage a website — so I can’t read this link, but it’s not to the red map, or the green one, either. [6] We have mixed messaging, lethally bad advice on airborne tranmission, confusing guidance, a broken website, with an inexplicable hash-tag to wrap it all up.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

That’s a big problem for a media industry that is largely fed by advertising revenue. And though that is the chart topper, the average “high-end” TV drama can cost anywhere from $5 million to $7 million per episode, with the least expensive shows all having a price tag north of $1 million.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

Walmart, on the other hand, managed to notch out analysts’ predictions for earnings, but in a way more conducive to building investor confidence: Sales are up, earnings are up and guidance for the year had gotten an upward revision, despite the big cash layout coming soon for the purchase of Jet.com. 5 percent growth).

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

What did happen was what more or less what analysts forecast would happen: The new phones — the iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max — rolled out; the Apple Watch Series 5 made it debut; and the world met the latest variation of the iPad and finally got some hard details about Apple long-anticipated streaming service.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Facebook takes a 5 percent operational fee on donations for processing, fraud protection and payment support. Facebook is bent on its strategy to become the next big video hub, and it’s willing to spend up to $1 billion in 2018 to do it. Made In China: Possible Inroads? Original Content.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Undeterred by the steep price tag, hundreds and even thousands of walk-in customers queued up outside Apple stores hours, days, and in some cases, months before the new device hit shelves. After camping out for a week and a half, however, Kourouche’s big day turned out to be a bust, with the iPhone X release delayed until Nov.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

When I was 5-years-old, they fought, she moved. By the way, this was a crushed velvet, three piece suit with a ruffle shirt and a big bow tie. And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. He was only 5’7”.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Every year we add 5, or 10, or 20, or whatever pace we’re growing. So, big transition point where a lot of couples start having questions. Michael: So just literally, client’s got an expenditure from such and such restaurant, you tag that as, that’s a restaurants thing. Is these 400 ongoing clients?

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Strategic Treasurer

DECEMBER 27, 2021

” So, 2021 I think in terms of the use of a buzzword, 2021 was a big year for API’s, spent several years ramping up, big big year in 2021 for using the term API’s that may bleed over to the next year as well. I think those are all big, big developments on the fraud front. . .

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AUGUST 14, 2018

As the world knows, Elon Musk sent a short missive – over Twitter, where all the missives are short – that he was considering a go-private deal, with an attendant price tag of about $72 billion, or at $420 a share, where the stock ended last Monday at around $356. The pie is big enough for tech behemoths to jockey for slices.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Can I just tag along? He acquired 22 and a $5 billion in a flash. It was odd what they knew Sam, not [ Barry Ritholtz ] 00:13:41 [Speaker Changed] Liars Poker, not the Big Short, not Moneyball. Those are the really, the big three. What could go wrong? And he did the deal. He was that fascinating. And the Undoing project.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What was it like at those big shops, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers, doing distressed EM debt? And they would call Chase, and they would call Lehman, and it was just this roundabout and the market would drop 5 points or what have you. Today, you have less banks, less balance sheet, less market-making, and a really big buy side.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

Remember these big glossy things — RITHOLTZ: Sure. The worst that can happen is there’s a big problem, and why did you approve this? But the root of that is this big misnomer. They just didn’t do that in big numbers back then. She was an investor. She loved stocks. RITHOLTZ: Right, right. RITHOLTZ: Okay.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

RITHOLTZ: “We’re a big company.” So people that would — RITHOLTZ: So I’m guessing eBay was pretty big in the early days, right? And then within LVMH, I moved to Tag Heuer, which is a pure watch business — RITHOLTZ: Right. And so our first big advertiser was Audemars Piguet.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You work at Capital Growth Financial and in former global markets before you join investing Giant Merrill Lynch in 2007, what was that transition like from smaller shops to a really, really big one? I, I worked for small firms that, that we could have built into a big business. Lemme just spend 30 seconds before answering that.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. I mean, it was pretty big group of folks — RITHOLTZ: You left out Jim. So Elisabeth Kashner — RITHOLTZ: And FactSet is a big, big operator in that space. Why don’t you speak to him?

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