The grocery sector may be in for a few lean months, if not years. As noted across several web sources, including Seeking Alpha, a number of executives offering insight at several industry conferences have said that sales are sluggish and that, at least in some...
The U.S. job market has lots of openings, but not for lack of effort in trying to fill them. According to the latest numbers from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS, for short), released monthly by the Labor Department, job openings are at...
Data is unstructured gold. For retailers, the key is to be agile enough — in a constant dialogue between marketing and IT departments — to analyze that data in real time. Synchrony Financial, in a new whitepaper, discusses the way data should be visualized and...
In the United States, companies added 172,000 jobs in June, The New York Times reported on Thursday (July 7), and this indicates that hiring may been on the mend after slowdowns in April and May. The data came from payroll processing firm ADP, which said that service firms...
To paraphrase some thoughts that ran earlier in this space: rate hike, no rate hike, now rate hike, nope rate hike? The jobs numbers reported on Friday (June 3) were dismal, to put it mildly, with a paltry showing of 38,000 new additions to the...
Two big segments of the world made news last week: politics and payments. And although there is no shortage of controversy about the former, we thought we’d stick with the latter, where there was more than enough drama to go around. Take, for example, the...
Down 12 percent in the wake of earnings results, Square’s stock is taking a linear path downward. The second quarterly report by the payments processor since going public in a disappointing debut in November of last year (but shares have rebounded by 50 percent) showed...
Green Dot reported earnings of $0.78 per share, beating the average analyst estimate of $0.70 a share. In addition, the firm stated that it showed $228 million on the top line, better than the $213 million that consensus held for the metric. The guidance for the full...
TSYS said Tuesday (April 26) night that it had adjusted profit of $0.66 a share, up 22 percent year over year, which was $0.04 better than The Street. The latest bottom line beat came even as the firm missed top line estimates, coming in at about...