Connected Economy

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CE 100 Index Soars 4.3% as Nike Races Ahead After Earnings
June 30, 2025

The end of the second quarter is here, and in the last full trading week of June the CE 100 Index surged 4.3%, and all pillars advanced. A broad based rally lifted most names, and banking and “fun” stocks led the pack. In the banking...

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AXA Bets on Tech to Manage Ballooning Insurance Costs
June 26, 2025

As natural disasters grow in frequency and severity, the cost to insurers is becoming unsustainable. Global insurance giant AXA is using artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT) and digital twins to manage claims without pulling out of the market.  Pierre du Rostu, CEO of...

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CE 100 Index Barely Budges in Holiday-Shortened Trading Week
June 23, 2025

The CE 100 Index barely budged in a week shortened by the Juneteenth holiday. Overall, the index slipped a scant 0.02%, as six pillars lost ground and five pillars advanced. In doing so, the CE 100 pantheon outperformed all of its broader benchmarks, as, for...

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CE 100 Slides 1.8% as Payments Names Dive
June 16, 2025

The CE 100 rode the waves of volatile trading this past week, alongside the broader market indices, to finish 1.8% lower.  The prospect of widening conflict in the Middle East helped overshadow the news that inflation slowed, a bit, as measured in May. The recent...

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CE 100 Index Adds 2.8% as iRobot Gets Waiver Extension From Lenders
June 09, 2025

The CE 100 Index logged strong gains this past week, adding 2.8% and outperforming benchmarks like the NASDAQ and the Standards and Poor’s 500 Stock Index. Only one pillar of the CE 100 Index, the Communications segment, lost ground, slipping a slight 0.2%. iRobot shares...

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Peloton Launches P2P Used Equipment Marketplace, ‘Repowered’
June 04, 2025

Peloton introduced its own peer-to-peer resale marketplace, Repowered. The launch aims to capture a segment of the expanding resale market for connected fitness equipment and monetize devices no longer in active use in customers’ homes, CNBC reported Tuesday (June 3). Users can list their pre-owned...

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CE 100 Index Gains 1.7% as Investors Send AI-Related Names Higher
June 01, 2025

The CE 100 Index resumed its winning ways  in a holiday-shortened week, notching a 1.7% gain that was powered, in part, for investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI)-related news. Only two pillars declined through the final trading days of May, and those losses were muted,...

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CE 100 Index Slips 2.7%, Led by Xerox, as All Pillars Lose Ground
May 26, 2025

Through the past several weeks, the CE 100 Index has shown resilience, outperforming the broader markets, and posted several weeks where all segments were higher.   But what goes up, as they say, must come down — and in the past week, all pillars within the...

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CE 100 Index Jumps 5% as Shopify Gets a Post-Earnings Bump; Payment Brands Rally
May 19, 2025

A rally across all market indices, as China-focused tariffs were reduced, helped lift the CE 100 Index 5% higher in a week that saw almost all pillars advance, with the exception of the “Be Well” segment. In the Shop vertical, up 7%, Shopify surged 20.3%...