The Weekender

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Star-Spangled Sticker Shock Hits Cookouts and Bottle Rockets
July 05, 2025

If you’re reading this from a shaded Adirondack chair, lemonade in hand and the distant sizzle of a grill in your ears, congratulations: you’re living the Fourth of July dream. But how much does that dream cost — and how has the price tag changed...

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IPOs That Launched Like Rockets — and Those That Flew Straight Into a Wall
June 14, 2025

If you hear the faint hiss of champagne corks this summer, that’s the sound of bankers limbering up for two long-anticipated debuts: Chime and Klarna. The FinTech duo is expected to test whether the initial public offering (IPO) window is really wide open or merely...

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Drones Take Flight — From Prime Air to Poolside Prosecco
June 07, 2025

If you thought the future of eCommerce delivery was all about electric vans and AI-powered routing, think again. The sky — quite literally — is the new frontier for last-mile logistics. Drones, once the stuff of sci-fi and military operations, are now delivering everything from chicken...

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Farewell to the Penny — A Tiny Coin’s Outsized Legacy
May 31, 2025

It’s official: the penny’s days are numbered. After more than two centuries of jingling in pockets, lining cash registers and fueling both nostalgia and frustration, the one-cent coin will cease production early next year, the U.S. Treasury has confirmed. The decision, driven by mounting production costs...

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Top 10 Banking, Payments and Financial Fraud Films for Memorial Day
May 24, 2025

As Memorial Day approaches, kick off your summer blockbuster season with a binge-worthy lineup of films that dive deep into the wild, weird and sometimes tragic world of banking, payments and financial fraud. From true tales of Wall Street excess to comedies about offshore shell...

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The Wild World of Post-Grad Side Hustles
May 10, 2025

The hallowed halls of academia are launchpads, or so the brochures promised. Capstone projects defended, futures forged and a shiny new degree clutched in a hopeful hand. But for a growing number of recent college graduates, that launchpad feels less like a step toward the...

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Money Talks, and Now It Also Has a Museum in Boston’s Seaport
April 19, 2025

Come July 1, 2026, Boston’s Seaport will welcome a new kind of tourist attraction, one that will be near and dear to the hearts of the PYMNTS audience: the Museum of American Finance. An affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, this venerable institution is finally planting...

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Cyber Monday: From Dial-Up Dreams to Digital Dollars
November 30, 2024

In the annals of retail history, few phenomena have captured the imagination quite like Cyber Monday. Born in the early days of eCommerce, Cyber Monday has evolved into Cyber Week and quickly outgrew its Black Friday cousin, which is starting to look positively archaic in...

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As Consumers Plan Their Thanksgiving Shopping, AI Stirs the Pot
November 02, 2024

Thanksgiving has come a long way from its pilgrim origins — this year, the robots are taking over. That is, artificial intelligence (AI) is changing how consumers plan their holiday shopping. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...