Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

The graph below shows the sovereign spreads for Russia and Ukraine in the weeks leading up and including the conflict: The sovereign CDS spread for Russia, which started the year at 1.70% soared above 25%, just after hostilities commenced, and were trading at 10.56% on March 16, after rumors that peace talks were underway brought them down.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The arrangement will see the outfitting of all new Nissan vehicles with Sem Parar Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID tags), providing thousands of drivers with contactless payments capabilities and expanding Sem Parar’s customer base in the region, according to an announcement.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Digital payments form a critical facet of the world’s economy, facilitating the flow of tens of trillions of dollars among individuals and businesses each year. Cross-border payments between businesses are expected to reach $35 trillion by 2022 and 2024 could see up to $240 billion in person-to-person (P2P) payments.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2019

Special tags can trigger purchases with Apple Pay without the need for a special app. iPhones can read a near-field communication (NFC) tag that is specially encoded to display an interface for an Apple Pay purchase when a user holds a device near it. And tech companies are already working with retailers on payments innovation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

That’s giving extra momentum to the car-leasing trend that’s been displacing ownership for years. With its first vehicle expected in 2022, consumers are already joining a waiting list to subscribe to one of Canoo’s envisioned EV models — a sedan, an SUV or a purpose-built vehicle (PBV) — for mobile delivery and rideshare uses.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 24, 2023

But another experience will inform their relationship—a relationship that arguably will dictate the contours and determine the success of the last two years of Biden’s term.” Seven of the 15 members expected to join the Blue Dogs this year, including Reps. The price tag was just shy of $9,000 — a reduced rate.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen told investors last year, “Today, households that engage in our seamless offerings, engaging digitally and with our physical stores, spend more per week than households that do not. ” The ranking will remain unchanged through 2022. The future looks even more promising.”. . “Google Pay (11.1

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Strategic Treasurer

DECEMBER 27, 2021

He discusses the implications of major activities and trends over the past year and looks ahead to what’s next in the coming year. He discusses the implication of major activities and trends over the past year and looks ahead to what’s next in the coming year. And we expect that to be fully entrenched in 2022.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

When shoppers go to the fish counter, they’ll find Snapcode origin labels on the shelf tag accompanying each cut. The app’s users and the typical McDonald’s new hire fall within the same age range, 16 to 24 years old. locations by the end of 2022, which would make Aldi the third largest grocery chain in the country by store count.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mindy is the owner of Creative Money, an independent RIA based in Seattle, Washington, that offers a unique 12-month financial planning engagement – or as Mindy puts it on her homepage, “financial planning that doesn’t suck” – which has allowed her firm to work with nearly 400 client households just this year. Author: Michael Kitces.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

JOHNSON: So I spent a year, my father said to me, “Look, if you’re going to be in the financial services business you should probably work in New York.” ” And so I spent a year working for Drexel Burnham. It’s hard to beat that, you know, sunshine 300 days a year to say the least. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

So I feel really fortunate to have spent 35 years doing the same thing in emerging markets. KOENIGSBERGER: Emerging markets in the late ‘80s was very different than the emerging markets of 2022. RITHOLTZ: So you go from that onto Mother Merrill for three years, where you traded distressed EM. I’m like 25 years old.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

I know Brian for, I don’t know, a dozen years, maybe longer, but I’ve really gotten to know him over the past couple of years. A couple of years before we launched, we were exploring merging with somebody. You guys did a nice job, and that was, I don’t know, 12 years ago? We retained your firm.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

And that was 15 years ago. Jeff Fowler has been CEO of the company for just about two years. CLYMER: So actually, when I used to visit here, your systems used to pull up the original photograph ever taken of me as a guest, and it was me at 24 years old. When I was 16 years old, it was my only nice watch. CLYMER: It was.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

I was only there for a year and a half, because if in the movie Boiler Room Sure. Two years later. What was that year at Merrill like? I mean, it, it’s just, I just remember ’cause I a little bit more seasoned, you know, I’ve been in the business 15, 16, 17, no, no, 14 years, 15 years when that hit.

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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 after a couple of years in something of despair, my tutors said to me, you have to give up doing this.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

I know Dave for a long time, and we kind of fell in love with each other’s books, music, film, and financial history when we first met 100 years ago. And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. Go fire a bunch of, you know, 69-year-old Japanese salarymen.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

LINDZON: So first year at ’01, ‘02, you have Apple and they blew out the store model, the retail model, which no one thought. And so in my formative years, there was TV, there weren’t really great video games, Mattel and television, Coleco. But when I’m 15 years old, Second City Television, comedy was in the water.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Gary Cohn ] 00:03:56 So two years earlier, and now we’re going back in time, the summer of 80, for those of you that remember the summer of 80, the Hunt brothers at that point were silver, were exactly, were trying to corner the gold and silver market. And I stood behind that person for the better part of a year.

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