CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

As the world’s attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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APRIL 13, 2020

And due to the current global coronavirus crisis and its economic impacts, iPhone specifications could still change. In general, Apple’s penchant for secrecy make predictions on timing difficult.

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MAY 28, 2020

Google’s security experts had their hands full in April, as its Threat Analysis Group (TAG) emailed 1,755 warnings to users whose accounts were targets of hacking and phishing attempts by cybercriminals. companies are suffering from a continued overall economic decline. Google Reports Resurgence in Pandemic Hacking, Phishing.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Big price tags and longer timelines. Countries that have lagged because they've been in firefighting mode against the economic consequences of COVID. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) programs can pose unique challenges to finance chiefs charged with maximizing returns.

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MAY 26, 2020

A 2016 paper led by Stanford University Economist Raj Chetty found that millennials were in deeper economic trouble than a quick look at the U.S. She noted that 60 years of economic ebbs and flows since the mid-20 th century have caused generational economic expectations to slide.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The hefty price tag of Apple’s newest iPhones, coupled with an economic slowdown and extending smartphone replacement cycles in China has been hurting the smartphone maker. Citing IDC, Bloomberg reported the smartphone market in China contracted 9.7

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Simply Treasury

JUNE 3, 2021

This quest for further digitization and the hope founded in new technologies and innovations are explained by the importance of combating increasing risk of fraud and strengthening of internal controls, by growing economic uncertainties, by the need for more efficiency and by a lack of sufficient (human) resources.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

The Apple Card looms, with a rollout that began last week through Goldman Sachs, and according to at least one analysis, the card might underwhelm consumers, lead to muted results (at least at the outset) for its tech and banking backers, and for Goldman, even lead to losses, depending on the economic climate.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

However, a story from Taiwan’s Economic Daily newspaper reported that Apple told suppliers of the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus that it will cut orders for components by as high as 50 percent during the last three months of 2017. As for the iPhone X, concerns abound that the high price tag could keep iPhone owners from upgrading.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But a new report from cloud accounting firm Sage has put a price tag on this burden: a whopping $600 billion for firms across the globe. Manual processes are expensive for small businesses, in both time and money. Taking time to crunch numbers or hand-pick data is a waste for SMB owners, for sure. Canada, U.K. Canada, U.K.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The price tag of Apple’s latest iPhones, combined with an economic slowdown and extending smartphone replacement cycles, were named by IDC as the culprits behind the dive in sales at the Cupertino, California handset maker. According to a report in Bloomberg citing IDC, the smartphone market in China contracted 9.7

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The stories come with significantly different price tags: $185 million and $13 billion. The low-hanging fruit is for LendingClub to hold 10 percent of originations on its balance sheet, which, in turn, should bring in $40 million of economic profit for every $1 billion of loans held on the balance sheet, the company said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In the Leveraging The Digital Banking Shift , PYMNTS surveyed more than 2,200 consumers to reveal why banks must make trust and fraud concerns top priorities in the current economic climate. Now, the adversary is China , and the weapons of choice are tied to tech, data, deal-making and very large price tags.

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MAY 18, 2020

Stimulus checks are being saved, not spent, as the future economic uncertainty looms. The quantum leap we wrote about last week now has a price tag attached to it — and now is quantified in a way that shows just how quickly firms of all sizes and across all verticals will have to pivot, if they have not done so already.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The price tag of Apple’s latest iPhones, combined with an economic slowdown and extending smartphone replacement cycles, were named by IDC as the culprits behind the dive in sales for the Cupertino, California handset maker. The smartphone market in China reportedly contracted 9.7

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

The industry in Haiti is a perfect example of blockchain’s application, not just for commerce, but as a catalyst for social change by ensuring quality, fair conditions and reduced economic volatility. In other news, Facebook has taken down a fraudulent sponsored post that has been shared with hundreds of thousands of users.

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MARCH 25, 2020

Economists, reported AFP, have said that the country, already reeling from a declining economy, will see further economic pain. That price tag would be divvied up between Tokyo, the aforementioned organizing committee and the central government. billion USD. billion tally, there is an additional $9.7

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Last year, the Chicago Tribune reported that while it’s easy to assume hosting big sporting events automatically brings on big economic rewards in a city, many studies on sports economics have proven otherwise. Humphreys wrote in a 2002 study called “The Economic Impact of Postseason Play in Professional Sports.”.

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APRIL 23, 2019

. “A lot of work today is using machine learning to learn from the experience that humans have in terms of their deep accounting knowledge,” he explained, adding that that expertise includes everything from core accounting knowledge to finance, economics and the “basic principles of running a business.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Sales taxes’ price tags. Greenberg added that certain jurisdictions require retailers to remit sales taxes even for very low levels of in-state economic activity — as few as 10 in-state orders could obligate companies to register, collect and remit state and local taxes.

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JULY 25, 2017

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. And with price tags that large, there is going to be a generation of students who are by necessity going to be seeking private student loans.

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AUGUST 25, 2018

But the sort of sharp differences of opinions that Burning Man manages to generate – spelled out in a slew of think pieces that fill the internet each summer during the last week of August – is actually about economics, and the extremely esoteric economies that pop up at the annual festival. Don’t get me wrong,” Grace said.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

The latest research puts a price tag on the finances of better procurement, banking, cash management and innovation among small and medium-sized businesses. Researchers said a decline in small and medium-sized business lending is likely to lead to sluggish economic growth overall. 139 billion could be saved by U.K.

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APRIL 4, 2016

the price tag for buying its competitor was $36 million, the firms said. However, the report also found an increase in the number of businesses taking caution when proceeding in the economic climate, with an increase in the number of those surveyed citing that the current economy is restricting future growth opportunities.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Going clean and green is just about everyone’s favorite marketing tag line these days. In the ’60s and ’70s all these additives were put in food for good reason — to extend the shelf life of products for distribution purposes and to drive better economics. We wanted to be part of fixing the food system. So how did they get to better?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

You graduate Harvard in 1990, with an Economics and Computer Science degree, perfect for the explosion of the Internet; a PhD from MIT and Information Technology in ‘96. And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. And I’ve been investing in a lot of computer companies over the years.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

I had an economics lesson, I had a life lesson, I had an epiphany, I had a race relations lesson, I had a self-esteem and confidence lesson. Being broke is economic, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind, a depressed condition of your spirit. It’s home economics class, doesn’t exist anymore. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

Treasury or cash management services that used to be fast enough may therefore no longer be adequate as businesses fight to stay afloat during the economic downturn. Checks are cumbersome and costly for businesses and FIs, with a price tag of about $8 to $10 per processed check, and they can take up to 15 days to process.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

As reported in The Economic Times , an Amazon India spokesperson said, “We are studying details, and will reach out to the government for clarifications. Facebook had been sued over the use of “tag suggestions,” and had allegedly broken the law by collecting the imagery without asking for permission.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

And while the motivations for hitting the road can vary, there is one single economic reality for most of those trips: They are usually large financial expenditures.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 1, 2023

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. Classical economic theory rules out rationalization. However, the entire tweet is so sloppy and bad it’s hard to say, and in addition there’s no link. [4] 6] Yeah, what about it?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. India seems to be like a perennial next economic powerhouse after China and it just always seems to be not catching that next bid. So she wants her portfolio managed that way. JOHNSON: And express it through that technology.

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APRIL 18, 2016

Plus, research places a price tag on B2B sales efforts, the alternative lending industry and small business expense practices. Expanded globally, the price tag of wasted money hits $1.4 When broken down between local, national and global economic outlook, all three areas saw declines in optimism compared to 2015.

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MARCH 6, 2019

And while the motivations for hitting the road can vary, there is one single economic reality for most of those trips: They are usually large financial expenditures for the people taking them.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

From Alfred Sloan at General Motors to Jack Welch at General Electric to Steve Jobs at Apple, there is a history of CEOs being tagged as superstars (and indispensable to the organizations that they head), in successful companies.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

Plus, in a favorable economic environment, Webster noted, it is easy for consumers, even those who are getting in a little bit over their heads, to feel fairly confident (and the data shows they do) because they may start to take for granted that they can earn their way out of a jam.

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