Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

The Middle East is the only region that saw a decrease in sovereign CDS spreads, as oil, the primary mechanism for monetization in this region, saw its price surge during the last few weeks. The Canadian sovereign CDS spread widened, but US and EU country spreads remained relatively stable.

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JULY 29, 2019

The big price tag to acquire new video games also highlights the fierce competition to land exclusive rights to top content. Whether online, mobile or inside stores, video games are providing fuel for retail innovation. Apple has stiff rivals in the gaming market.

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JUNE 13, 2018

New data from Greenwich Associates put a price tag on that effort: According to Bloomberg reports Tuesday (June 12), the financial services market spends an estimated $1.7 Even as big money and big names fuel the blockchain hype, waves of doubt continue to crash on blockchain’s shores.

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JULY 6, 2018

Sales and promotions won’t attract customers if consumers don’t know they exist, though, and many stores are now working to find improved, tech-fueled ways to better promote their discounted goods. for an RFID tag to go onto a product that only costs $1 or $2, that could blow up the whole profit margin structure,” he noted.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

The favored trend of the moment — doubtless fueled by the excess of consumption in the fast fashion fad — is simplicity: slimming down the wardrobe to contain less trendy-by-the-minute clothes that maybe have three trips through the washing machine before they’re past their prime and more fit as dust rags.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

And, generally speaking, they’re buying big — in terms of both the number of items they buy and the price tags on those items. What fuels his thinking is the observation that what’s fueling the shopping and buying behaviors of consumers is influencing how interior designers shop as well: physical store fatigue. “To

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

It takes much land, water, pesticides, electricity and fossil fuel to grow, harvest, package, transport and prepare the food required to make even the simplest possible meals. For the food industry — that waste adds up to a $990 billion price tag, according to Alex Garden, chairman and CEO of Zume Inc.

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MARCH 2, 2016

Ripple provides the infrastructure for blockchain-fueled cross-border payments in an effort to progress towards what the company calls the Internet of Value — a market in which money moves across borders securely and quickly, just like information moves throughout the Internet. The Price Tag. ” A Bit Of Background.

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MAY 24, 2016

All in, Kroger runs 2,620 supermarkets and multi-department stores, as well as 326 fine jewelry stores, 1,360 supermarket fuel centers and 37 food processing plants. ” A big price tag is in part an outcome of a big operation. It did over $100 billion in sales in 2014 and employs about 400,000 people.

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MAY 5, 2017

Mobile Order-Ahead: Last week Waze debuted a deal with Dunkin’ Donuts that spotlighted the convergence of motoring while fueling via caffeine. Brexit: The price tag on this divorce is getting higher. The latest stats from Starbucks showed that the duality of coffee and mobile are healthy amid foot traffic as well.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

“Now that they're seeing that supply chain interrupted to some degree, I think this is a great opportunity for them to collect the data to understand their consumers’ needs, wants and desires relative to how these things are packaged, bundled and priced.”. Developing The Opportunity . People still look at the convenience factor.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The firms kept the price tag of the funding private , but LendingFront said it will use the backing to strengthen its solution, which uses continuous integrated monitoring of business lifecycles to mitigate borrower risk. LendingFront. Cross-Border Payments. New Zealand’s Latipay announced a $3 million investment on Wednesday (Feb.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

With its big price tag and bigger ambition, Jet.com is Walmart’s flashiest play for digital dominance during Q2, but certainly not its only one. The chain-wide wage increases and re-training initiative will take a pretty notable bite out of share price on the order of 30 cents per share.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

And that seems to be where indexing really took off and where people became a lot more price sensitive. And then the other piece of that, And this was definitely fueled by low interest rates, but private equity, the fact is, companies can stay private longer. I assumed people would see that and steer away. So that was happening a bit.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 23, 2023

Then suddenly in the ensuing weeks, you get tagged to be CEO. GREW: And at that point Lehman share price had its first sort of crumbs moment. So, you will have, and we have had clients who say I am interested in, I still want to look at all the gas and fossil fuels, but I’m interested in the transition. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

If I’m here from a roll up or an aggregator and I tell you, now’s the time for you to sell to me because prices are at all-time record highs, right? I think the other big misnomer that’s out there is people are fueled by these headline numbers, right? RITHOLTZ: Your bucket list, which most people don’t tag.

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