Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. New York Times ) • From Dylan to Bieber, catalogue sales are the megadeals taking over music : Some call it song management, others royalty acquisition. To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. What happens if they fail?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

online sales to 37.7 In the April letter Amazon for the first time officially confirmed the percentage total gross merchandise sales in 2018 that came via third-party sellers — 58 percent. retail sales is only 4 percent. Amazon’s retail business competes in the worldwide market for retail sales,” the Amazon spokesperson said.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 23, 2024

The bill, meant to force the sale of TikTok, passed by a landslide. link] • Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon : Want to really understand how large language models work? [link] see also How the House quietly revived the TikTok ban before most of us noticed : An unusually fast process.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 20, 2023

Second, follow Charlie Munger’s advice and invert the sales pitch: 70% of the upside (you give up 16.62% per year for 2 years) with none of the downside sounds attractive – unless you think about what you are really giving up and getting in exchange. Giving up permanent gains to avoid impermanent drops seems like an awful exchange.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 31, 2023

Embattled First Republic Bank is no longer searching for a buyer as investment advisors and company executives seek to repair the company’s balance sheet before any sale might take place, FOX Business has learned. ( It’s how the world’s most valuable company built a better way of listening to Mozart and Beethoven.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Wayfair Supreme Court decision continue to rattle online merchants, as three states (California, Louisiana and South Carolina) are now trying to collect eCommerce sales tax retroactively, as far back as five years. have moved to collect sales tax from remote sellers, and it’s just the beginning. To date 43 states and Washington, D.C.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

While rivals Papa John’s and Pizza Hut have said deliveries through Grubhub and DoorDash have helped them expand into new markets and boost sales, Domino’s Chief Executive Ritch Allison told The Wall Street Journal that the profit hit and reputational risk of working with those companies isn’t worth the extra revenue.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

As PYMNTS found in a study published earlier this month, 42 percent of consumers are engaging in even the most routine activities online, and as much as $158 billion in brick-and-mortar sales are moving to digital channels. Some POS providers have robust digital offerings in place, and are able to develop networks around their solutions.

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JANUARY 17, 2021

While the company did not release any sales or financial data concerning the program or its decision to end it, a spokesperson was quoted in The Verge as saying the alternative financing method had “reached its capacity limits.”. 31, and we are no longer taking new members,” a sales representative told The Verge. percent to $39,259.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Morgan management said in its commentary that debit was being used for “everyday spend,” while credit sales have been negatively impacted by slumps in travel and entertainment-related activity. As reported in July, Visa Installments, a new point-of-sale (POS) credit solution, debuted in pilot markets across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

States continue to grapple with how collections of taxable and nontaxable items listed together under a single sales price should be treated. Many allow retailers to only pay taxes on the portions of their bundles’ sales prices that refer to taxable items, a process known as “unbundling.”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

There are challenges to overcome, as always, but the math works out well for adopters. The ROI of Orchestration. Tech stacks are using orchestration layers to achieve this, with some eye-opening results.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It represents about half of their sales volume on the platform. But Robbins predicts that by summer, the math is going to look a lot different in terms of the importance of that digital pipeline. And to the chains, stabilizing their relationships is a big deal, Robbins noted. The Big Challenges To Overcome .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Amazon’s yearly sales represent about 15 percent of total online sales among consumers in the U.S., Once the marketplace sellers are added to the math, Amazon’s share of what U.S. online sales at 31.3 according to Amazon’s filings with the Commerce Department. percent as of today. “If

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2018

Papa John’s has hired Bank of America and Lazard as financial advisors, as the national chain tries to recover from weak sales and negative publicity surrounding its founder. According to CNBC , the company’s shares have fallen by almost 45 percent over the last year.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The MATH doesn’t add up,” Jefferies analyst Randal Konik wrote in a note to clients. For fiscal 2018, L Brands now expects earnings per share to fall within a range of $2.70 and $3, down from a prior estimate of $2.95

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Or maybe you just rely on your bank account balance to do the math for you. A CFO can help with flagging sales by developing a comprehensive strategy for your business. Whether it’s an advertising campaign or a shift to a subscription model, your CFO will come up with strategies proven to boost your sales.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2016

Through the Market platform, sales agents, who are billed as micro-entreprenuers, help with prepaid electric bills, for example. It’s simple math.”. Tapp Commerce management stated that its Market product helps people, through P2P, that do not necessarily have bank accounts buy goods and services online.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. Partnering with various functions such as marketing, sales, and supply chain has equipped me with a holistic view of how finance intertwines with the broader spectrum of business operations.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Nike posted its lowest quarterly sales in two years, along with a $790 million quarterly loss, when it reported its Q1 2020 earnings in late June. That quarter, Nike CEO John Donahoe said that digital represented 30 percent of Nike’s sales. It reportedly purchased this digital upstart — one with a reported (and very small) $3.9

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

The shift in calibration comes as signs of weakening sales in the earnings reports of numerous major retailers were counteracted by the U.S Commerce Department report that showed a spike in retail sales last month — thereby, clearing doubts of a softening American economy. economy — retail.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Same-store sales, the most watched metric in physical retail, grew by 4.5 Moreover, Cornell told investors, what is disguised in the quarter-by-quarter results is the compounding nature of Target’s digital sales growth over the last few years. Net income came in at $714 million, or $1.39 a share forecast pre-release.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

The math gets a bit more involved when it comes to why the consumer is returning an object. But no matter the reason, merchants can always keep 50 percent of the sale, and not have to take on the irritation of managing a returns process simply by extending the appropriate discount.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Thanksgiving weekend — including the evening of Thanksgiving itself and the sales that go with it — only generates around 15 percent of holiday spending, according to retail consulting firm Customer Growth Partners. And while that 15 percent is substantial — with eCommerce sales up 17 percent on Black Friday to hit a record $5.03

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2016

Different merchants can seemingly set different MSRPs (and advertise different amazing deals accordingly) with no apparent oversight, and while courts have consistently sided with retailers on the basis of buyer beware-type logic, consumer protection groups call the practice a blatantly deceptive way to drive higher sales.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

To use the platform, merchants connect their different sales channels and import their products. Then, Krakaris does some math on the backend to find out where merchants should send their products. Krakaris saw a particular opportunity in serving marketplaces beyond Amazon through retailers like Walmart, eBay and Jet.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Singles’ Day, an informal day of personal shopping that Alibaba has grown to a multi-billion dollar event over the last decade or so, brought in over $25 billion in merchandise sales in 24 hours. Most of those sales took place on the Taobao marketplace and Tmall brand store. JD.com announced that its sales from Nov.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

We wanted to hear how they were doing, whether they had access to cash (and if so, how much and for how long), what they were doing to stem the tide of lost sales, and how they assessed the stability of their own businesses. Sixty percent of technology firms have seen their sales decline by more than half, as well.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

These data points are deeply troubling, Global Head of Visa Direct Sales Cecilia Frew told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. Fifty-five percent of Americans surveyed believe that the pandemic will last longer than their personal savings will. They reflect the extent to which people’s lives have been shattered over the last 12 weeks.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

When Stripe did the back-of-the-envelope math on that misallocation of time, the company found it to be worth nearly $300 billion in potential gross domestic product (GDP) on an annual basis. That means, she noted, that sales and marketing professionals are going into organizations ready for the wrong type of conversation with their audience.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The installment pay plans allow customers to know up-front exactly what they are paying each month over the duration of the loan – no math required. And, he noted, this is even more true when it comes to the sorts of big-ticket sales that Bread and other installment players deal with directly.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2018

We saw credit improvement across our businesses, and growth math is now helping overall domestic credit card trends.”. According to Scott Blackley, chief financial officer of Capital One, the company had a $400 million gain from the previously announced sale of its mortgage portfolio, $49 million billed in its U.K.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

While the fundamentals of math, science, English and social studies are still at the core of learning, the various technologies surrounding nearly every aspect of everyone’s lives is unavoidable. The robot is used in classrooms all around the world, whether it’s for art, English, history, math or science.

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 17, 2022

You can grasp nonprofit accounting basics in just a few minutes, even if you’ve never taken an accounting course (and even if you hated math in high school). However, it can also be cash from sales of products, courses, or subscriptions. Sales of products or services. Examples of nonprofit revenue sources: Cash donations.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In this week’s Bitcoin Tracker, bitcoin soars, then settles down and plans for its yearly sale abound. Switzerland gives bitcoin a hand by way of rail ticket machine sales, an Australian startup banks on the aptly named Dash and Zcash fervor fades. The election came and went and, with it, brought some stock market shock.

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