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. In fact, since trading has been suspended on both indices, the extent of the damage is probably understated.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

At this writing, shares of the tech giant are down 9 percent in intraday trading, as on Wednesday (Jan. Cook blamed the ongoing trade war , and said the Chinese economy is weaker than expected. Whenever an 18-20+ percent revenue contributor – in this case, of course, China – falters, that spells rough sledding for any company.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

The latest is global consulting firm McKinsey, whose new report has put a price tag on the potential of blockchain: $110 billion. Trade finance, for instance, could see up to $17 billion in new value by integrating blockchain, while cross-border B2B payments could see even more: up to an estimated $60 billion, the report found.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Now You Can Trade Bitcoin Any Time. The Winklevoss twins want to trade bitcoin, and they want to do it now. Growing impatient waiting for their ETF fund to be listed and to boost bitcoin trading, the cofounders of the Gemini Trust Company, a digital currency exchange based in the U.S., EST and on holidays and weekends.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The initial focus on Wall Street and beyond may have been, and may still be, the price tag: At a reputed $30 billion, the bid price was roughly 10 percent over eBay’s closing price coming into The Wall Street Journal report that shed some light on the offer.

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MAY 22, 2019

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Inserts, packaging and leaflets can come with near-field communication (NFC) tags and quick-response (QR) codes to allow customers to sign as well as pay using their smartphones for their subscriptions. and Australia. In Australia and the U.K.,

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

But when it comes to retail technology , those sectors of the restaurant world have recently been making significant strides — progress that counters the image of a merely a place to go after a long day shopping, for instance, or where your mom will agree to eat because she demands “normal” food instead of that new sushi joint down the street.

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MARCH 2, 2019

counterfeit goods, software piracy and the theft of trade secrets cost the American economy as much as $600 billion year, according to a report from the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property. Because the world is full of platforms – and counterfeiters are promiscuous listers. In the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

That dynamic is the bedrock of how business is done between trading partners today – and the very intractable B2B payments dilemma that characterizes those trading partner dynamics. It’s a dynamic that can be solved by access to speedy real-time rails – but it also comes with a hefty price tag for suppliers.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For the food industry — that waste adds up to a $990 billion price tag, according to Alex Garden, chairman and CEO of Zume Inc. On the assumption that all of those people are going to need to eat — the world needs to find a way to get better about more efficiently distributing the edible resources.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Going in, the world has a pretty good idea of what the morning will look like in broad strokes — analysts, Apple experts and market watchers have debated what we will see next out of Apple. As is usually the case, there has been some fun speculation on that point, with the annual rumors about an Apple Car making the rounds.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Most merchants engaged in cross-border trade strive to deliver products to their customers as efficiently as possible. These tools allow merchants to pre-calculate duties and taxes into an order’s final price tag to help consumers anticipate all charges involved. Taking Surprises Out of International Shipping.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The company is now demanding the Federal Trade Commission reopen that 2012 Google case “ immediately.”. It is unclear whether the iPhone X’s $999 price tag will drive Google to raise its prices as well. Google agreed in Dec. Yelp has previously requested that Google stop scraping from its site. Can I Get A Lyft? Take My Money.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And while most of the other comments in the tech press – literally thousands of them – ranged from the giddy to the nonplussed, the whole world seemed to like the 5.8-inch Perhaps there is something to that $1,000 price tag, after all. Apple Stock ended Tuesday trading at $160.82, down 0.4 Well, with three possible exceptions.

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MARCH 2, 2016

For the first time, digital assets can enable real-time value exchange anywhere in the world, providing liquidity on demand and significantly reducing costs associated with treasury and payments operations, liquidity and Basel III compliance,” Ripple wrote. The Price Tag. The Case For XRP .

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Video surveillance captured Brinton removing the suitcase from the carousel and putting the bag’s tag in their handbag before leaving ‘at a quick pace,’ the police complaint read. We quantify discriminatory attitudes between vaccinated and unvaccinated citizens in 21 countries, covering a diverse set of cultures across the world.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

On this account, we advance reasons, not because we are logically trying to puzzle out the world, but because we want to justify ourselves. The price tag was just shy of $9,000 — a reduced rate. Stats Watch Manufacturing: “United States Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index” [ Trading Economics ]. As a check, since New York is a BQ.1*

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MAY 24, 2016

But despite its size and dominance of the typical grocery arena, Kroger is a firm increasingly beset by competition and a world that is moving away from the traditional supermarkets that it has made its stock and trade in operating. ” A big price tag is in part an outcome of a big operation. Stores wear out and look old.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

RITHOLTZ: That’s interesting, although in today’s digital world, as you guys know, there’s so many ways to invest with no minimum fees and a lot of people, especially of the younger generation, are very comfortable as DIYers, not do-it-yourselfers. What was it like a month into the new gig and suddenly the world shuts down?

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DECEMBER 20, 2020

2 country in the world in terms of bitcoins traded, according to a report from Quartz. The report found that Nigeria is the second-largest in terms of bitcoins traded next to the U.S. Nigeria had traded 60,215 bitcoins, valued at $566 million. was traded in 2020. In other news, Nigeria is now the No.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

It starts of course with founders who create organizations and lead them through their early years, partly because they represent their companies to the rest of the world, but more because they mold these companies, at least in their formative years.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And part of the reason we don’t sell anything else is because I came from the world where there was tons of compliance, tons of paperwork. I can’t do trades for them. Because it’s not a tool I hear a lot in the advisor world. Mindy: So, a lot of them come from the tech world. How does this break down?

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AUGUST 13, 2019

Some entrepreneurs enter the marketplace with the goal of changing the world – or at least the vertical where they have planted their flag. You can trade in and trade up,” noted CEO Trish Lukasik. But Luxury Garage Sale Co-founders Brielle Buchberg and Lindsay Segal had much smaller ambitions in mind.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

Some entrepreneurs enter the marketplace with the goal of changing the world – or at least the vertical where they have planted their flag. You can trade in and trade up,” noted CEO Trish Lukasik. But Luxury Garage Sale Co-founders Brielle Buchberg and Lindsay Segal had much smaller ambitions in mind.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Lambert remembers talking to a wife who was distressed because her husband had moved their accounts into day trading. Wondering why safeguards wouldn’t prevent a spouse from trading away a partner’s retirement savings? News and World Report since 2013, writing about a … READ MORE. View All 9 Slides.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

I had an a-ha about how the world really works. RITHOLTZ: Hustle up some money instead of launching something, that was very foreign to that part of the world. 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. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

10) — by and large, the world got exactly what had been forecast in the days and even weeks ahead of the event. However, facing a looming trade war with China and the reality that the best selling model of its last iPhone edition was the lower-priced XR model — Apple, it seems, has made some pricing tweaks for its latest round of products.

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JUNE 10, 2019

In 2003, iTunes for Windows arrived in October 2003, allowing non-Mac users, the vast majority of the computing world, to buy music from Apple and sync it to an iPod for the first time. billion tagged for this year and significant focus on Chase mobile and digital efforts. In May, the company raised $500 million in venture funding.

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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. BitPesa secured $2.5

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MAY 23, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, another extra special guest, Robin Grew, President of Man Group, $145 billion publicly traded hedge fund in the UK, and soon to be Man Group’s CEO. Then suddenly in the ensuing weeks, you get tagged to be CEO. And those trading practices are quite — they’re fun.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

It was trading well below $5,000 for about 24 hours. The new version of bitcoin proposed by one large, powerful faction of users would theoretically be faster and trade more easily. The panic was over a plan to split the digital currency. However, the kafuffle was short-lived, and by Monday (Nov. As of the time of this story (Nov.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Given its hefty price tag and IT requirements, the technology was installed in conference or board rooms and not individual offices. In 2009, and over the decade that followed, the limitations of the tech meant that the most efficient way to do business was to hop on a plane to meet clients, get deals done and visit trade shows.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Can I just tag along? And the world was reorganizing itself around him. And I had this thought, I thought like they’re selling this thing, but if, if, if it’s some wacky world, Bitcoin was the first currency and then someone came along and invented dollars. What could go wrong? And he did the deal. Right, right.

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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 biggest splash may have been made with Tesla.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

More scrutiny for the cryptocurrency, as speed trading is taking over, it seems, and the nation’s largest exchanges will begin charging a trading fee. a share that it shakes out to is about a 12 percent premium to MoneyGram’s trading price at the close of business on Wednesday (Jan. or the world economy,” he noted. .

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MARCH 14, 2017

The trade press states that Verifone may get consideration as a takeout target, and perhaps Western Union may be under consideration, too. The politics may be enough to make Ant think twice, while the price tag, thrice. The Trump administration has signaled its desire to keep U.S.

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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. It seems like you were built to trade distressed EM debt. Your graduate thesis was on the origins and implications of the Latin American debt crises.

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