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APRIL 7, 2020

All options cost money, however, and high price tags on gear, classes or personalized training plans can deter individuals from achieving their health goals. Rowing machines, stationary bikes and treadmills can cost anywhere from $800 for basic models to more than $5,000 for high-end machines featuring mounted TVs or heart rate displays.

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JUNE 14, 2016

Weighing in on Amazon search interest data collected from Google, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster , who is ranked No. 6, put a $800 price tag on Amazon’s share value, CNBC reported. The growth of search interest QTD continued on at a rate of 27 percent vs. 27 percent in the Mar-16 quarter,” Munster said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

Demand has been slumping in China for Apple products in part because of the hefty price tag. On the payments front, last week Apple launched the Apple Card , a new credit card that has zero fees and lower interest rates than what’s on the market now. Additionally, the smartphone market is getting saturated.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

Much has been made of the fact that the credit card has no fees and a relatively low interest rate, which in turn may pressure results. Nomura estimates a price tag of $350 per consumer in terms of acquisition costs, which means breakeven is several years away.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

On the lower end, a four-year education with in-state rates at a state school will run the average student around $60,000 in costs by the end. 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. There are currently 13,000 community banks in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

With a field of competitors that includes Pinterest, Target, ASOS and Google, the category is driving consumer adoption and shopping at a rate that has led key executives to rename the business “visual commerce.”. Shoppable tags on each displayed product redirect to shop the item in its own eCommerce environment.

Retail 60

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Even the ratings agencies, normally slow to act, have been moving promptly, with Moody's lowering Russia's rating from Ba2 to B3 on March 3, from B3 to Ca on March 6 and from Ca to C on March 8, and Ukraine's rating from B3 to Caa2 on March 4. Other ratings agencies have also taken similar actions.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The range beginning in 2014 and ending in 2016 shows a compounded annual growth rate of 33 percent. The $99 price tag is constant on a per-user basis, annually, so now, we have to assign a percentage of revenues to the Prime members. Again, in the interests of general correctness, let’s say that 85–90 percent are Prime-related.

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APRIL 3, 2019

So if millennials don’t cook today, which there is some evidence to say they don’t, they at least take an interest in preparing food. The pans come with graffiti-styled labels on the bottom and plantable paper tags embedded with basil seeds. As a result, the cookware is more or less manufactured here in the U.S. — The brand grew 11.6

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JUNE 17, 2017

A little over a third of all Americans think of themselves as of average intelligence, and only 4 percent of Americans rate themselves as of below average intelligence. A recent study about the American consumer’s interest in Apple’s HomePod suggests that a third of American adults are eagerly awaiting the day when they can buy a HomePod.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Last year, a Mashable fashion reporter went to New York Fashion Week clad entirely in wearable tech, from the LifeBEAM Smart Hat measuring heart rate, cadence and calories on her head to the Sensoria Fitness Socks and Anklets monitoring cadence and foot landings on her feet. While she certainly made a statement, it wasn’t a fashionable one.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

There were advances, a few interesting upgrades, a plethora of inspirational videos about the historical implications of the forthcoming class of Apple products and a lot of enthusiasm on the part of the Apple team. It also comes in a wider array of colors and has a much lower starting price tag than the XS: $749. The New Watch .

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

Valuation 117

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

That’s really interesting, but by the way, that’s really astute observation people are going to look at how hard you’re going to — you’re working and they think I could work a little less hard. And it was interesting because a lot of people, we sort of came into that late as far as one of the potential acquirers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The interesting thing is, even with a so-called curse and a disappointing ending to every season since 1908, the Cubs’ loyal fan base has continued to make the team one of the most profitable in all of baseball. Users can then expect their championship gear to be delivered in minutes.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

There is no crystal ball, of course, but a lot of interesting pokers in the fire. But for all we don’t know, there is plenty we do, mostly because we spent much of 2019 talking to some of the more interesting and forward-thinking retailers out there about how they go where they are today and where they hope to be going tomorrow.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

An influencer with a large following not only has a greater reach, but is also seen as more popular and credible, thus generating higher engagement rates than brands would achieve by spending the same budget on partnering with a less-popular influencer. greater ROI. greater ROI. I looked so bad!

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

Making that happen is, again, not one activity but a series of them, including advanced alerting technology for spotting threats and a security operations center dedicated to finding, tagging and triaging threats, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. “We And, McGurk said, they work. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Facebook had been sued over the use of “tag suggestions,” and had allegedly broken the law by collecting the imagery without asking for permission. She recommended that Congress pass the Veterans and Consumers Fair Credit Act to extend the 36 percent rate that applies to service members and their families.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Sounds a bit to us like tag teams: One partner switches out but tags in another teammate who is game to go — and Libra tokens, of course, stay in the pot. That’s a 12 percent “hit rate” and to us signals that while the interest is there, the available pool may not be the best fit. The members can leave for any reason.

Currencies 43

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Does a Nielsen rating actually matter if consumers DVR past commercials? Said simply, Reedeux is interested in taking on entertainment media en masse. “Hollywood is in trouble,” Federico Pacquing, Reedeux’s founder and CEO, noted. Over the last decade, the way consumers consume media has changed dramatically. How It Works: Part 1.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

You tell a story in one of your books of a banker who shows up at your elementary school class and that kick-started your interest in finance? 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. You have a high school graduation rate of over 90%.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

billion tagged for this year and significant focus on Chase mobile and digital efforts. The moves come as SoFi faces a challenging loan market, with higher interest rates making it less attractive to refinance student loans or take out personal loans. The number of active Finn users has not been publicly disclosed.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

” That’s an interesting take on the final utility of mobile payments, especially as they relate to things seemingly unconnected to the checkout process. “What we need to do — and this is, again, the formula that everyone tries and tests — is that we need to understand our customers’ needs and wants.”

Retail 43

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

And because we know you’re on the go, we have your quick rap on the most interesting adventures that happened last week in payments and commerce land. 1 spot – had a 61 percent use rate. Although Walmart accepts Chase Pay, it is understandably more interested in pursuing its own mobile wallet effort in Walmart Pay.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I was fascinated by your firm when I’d first come across it a little ways back, that you’ve got, to me, just a really interesting, wonderfully transparent fee structure in what you do. So that’s your booking rate, your close rate. Michael: It’s an interesting framing, though.

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Strategic Treasurer

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Welcome to The Treasury Update podcast presented by Strategic Treasurer, your source for interesting treasury news, analysis, and insights in your car, at the gym, or wherever you decide to tune in. I think those are some of the some of the big buzzwords I found most interesting in 2021 and some of the changes of 2022. . .

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

If you’re interested in what it’s like investing in emerging market debt, how that part of the investment firm has changed over the decades as the world itself has changed. And I got to get his feel for Wall Street politics, which I found out really weren’t for me and all the conflicts of interest that one finds in Wall Street.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

So, Brian is not a stranger to me, and we have some shared financial interests, but the reason I wanted to bring him in here is there are few people in the industry who have a better perch by which to look at the world of registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, all of the changes that are taking place in the space. Has that closed?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

He has both A-A-C-M-T and a CFA looks at the world from a very interesting perspective. 00:02:21 [Speaker Changed] And, and, you know, quite frankly, it was a very interesting learning experience. It’s about a 50% fail rate, something like that. I rely on our analysts ratings at the firm. Maybe even more.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

He is just so fascinating, such an interesting person born in the uk, grows up in Scotland, is becomes a professor in the uk and then says, let’s go check out that place America and starts teaching at, at Princeton 40 years ago. So interesting, so fascinating. I’m interested in their wellbeing in a fairly broad sense.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And so if it sounds like just two idiots talking about really interesting stuff in great detail, and me probably speaking more than I usually do during the podcast, well, that’s probably because it is. And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Really a fascinating career, a really, really interesting person. If you’re at all interested in that, you’ll find this to be an absolutely masterclass in how legislation is assembled, how it’s shepherded through the house, through the senate, through all the competing interest groups.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

RITHOLTZ: If it’s interesting and cool and cutting edge, these guys are right on it. How did those two interests combine? RITHOLTZ: So that raises an interesting question. How does a kid from Arizona, from Phoenix, get interested in venture investing, not exactly known as a hotbed of early-stage tech companies.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 24, 2023

But where it gets interesting is when we start looking not just at how humans give reasons, but how they evaluate reasons that have been given by others. WHO quietly stopped designating Variants of Concern or Variants of Interest categories that call for new Greek names. The price tag was just shy of $9,000 — a reduced rate.

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