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Amid Trucker Shortage, High Prices Loom

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Reported the Post : “Shipping costs have skyrocketed in the United States,” thus far into 2018, causing all sorts of other price tags to inflate. The shortage has also been making it tough to find available trucks (which need drivers, of course) and thus making speedy deliveries of goods (and, by extension, some services).

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Why Consumers Embrace Life Lived Digitally ? And 23 Pct Will Leave Offline Behind

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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. More than 36.5 That shift amounts to roughly $158 billion of sales once done in the physical store.

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Millennials Are Facing Their Second ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Financial Crash

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Of course, millennials aren’t the only generation tagged by the crisis: Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers have also suffered two successive blows to their retirement portfolios due to spectacular market crashes a decade apart. Many found themselves facing joblessness, low wages and stagnant earnings trajectories over the following decade.

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

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A less risky route would be to tag companies with significant exposure to Russia, such as Pepsi, McDonald’s and Philip Morris, and evaluate whether the market is overreacting to that exposure. I have seen no evidence, so far, that this is the case, but that may change.

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

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A less risky route would be to tag companies with significant exposure to Russia, such as Pepsi, McDonald's and Philip Morris, and evaluate whether the market is overreacting to that exposure. to 25% for the Eurozone. I have seen no evidence, so far, that this is the case, but that may change.

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An Unevenly Happy Holiday For Retailers

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Those expenditures will likely be category-focused – particularly in electronics, where the holiday season tends to both run up demand and spend tallies (as big-ticket electronics tend to have big-ticket price tags). By many metrics, retailers should be feeling especially merry and bright about the 2017 holiday retail season.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

Barry Ritholtz

You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. JOHNSON: So if you have a client who says, I really want to, my daughter will say, I really want things that are pushing towards net-zero on carbon. So she wants her portfolio managed that way. JOHNSON: And express it through that technology.