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899eCommerceHow Retailers Are Playing The Holiday Inventory/Retail Tariff Game
For many retailers, especially those focused on eCommerce, the next several weeks are crucial. The holiday shopping season, stretching from Black Friday...
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1.2KeCommerceNew Clearbanc Program Protects Online Merchants’ Inventory
Clearbanc is launching an Inventory Protection Program to support eCommerce companies affected by the U.S.-China trade negotiations ahead of the holiday shopping...
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1.6KInternationalSigns Of U.S.-China Trade Deal Lift Stocks To Record Highs
Wall Street’s three main indexes all hit record highs on Monday (Nov. 4), on news of technology gains and the nearing of...
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2.6KAppleApple Asks US Govt. For More Tariff Exemptions
Apple has asked the President Donald Trump administration for more tariff exemptions on products that come from China, according to reports. The...
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2.0KRetailTariffs And Shipping Could Shape 2019 Holiday Retail
You may have already seen the Christmas commercials and been lucky – or unlucky – enough to have heard some holiday music...
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1.5KEconomyTariffs, Trade Tensions Impact Auto Shipping
The lingering impacts of various trade wars are refashioning supply chains and slowing the flow of goods across borders and across various...
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3.6KInternationalChina’s GDP Near 30-Year Low As Trade War Impacts Factory Work
Economic growth in China is at a near-30-year low in the third quarter as tariffs start to negatively affect factory production, Reuters...
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829EconomyIMF: World Economy Will Grow Only 3 Pct In 2019
As the self-inflicted wounds of the trade war between the U.S. and China have made for a “precarious” economic state, the International...
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1.4KInternationalAmid China’s Slowdown, Consumers Root For The Home Team (Of Retailers)
In retail and in eCommerce, to make inroads into a new market is challenging … especially if consumers root for the home...
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2.4KRetailWill Tariffs Make Retail’s Holidays Less Than Festive?
It looks like tariff worries could take a bite out of retail spending this holiday season. According to new data out from...
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10.8KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: New Malware Intercepts Crypto En Route To Digital Wallets; Uzbekistan Gov’t Calls For 300 Pct Rise In Crypto Miners’ Tariffs
A new malware is able to replace wallet addresses as they are typed. The malware — called Masad Stealer — can steal...
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2.6KCommerceRebound In Consumer Sentiment: One-Off Or Trend Into Holidays?
And still they spend – and still, the outlook may be bright. If sentiment is everything – where sanguine moods can mean...
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2.4KRetailRetail Pulse: Nordstrom Takes Local Concept To NYC; Grubhub Rolls Out Perks
Brick-and-mortar retailers are taking small-format, inventory-free locations to big cities: Nordstrom, for instance, is bringing its Nordstrom Local concept to the Big...
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1.6KRetailTarget Punts Tariff Costs To Suppliers To Minimize Consumer Impact
To minimize the impact of tariffs on consumer goods from China, Target is reportedly telling its suppliers to handle tariff costs. The...
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2.3KInternationalBeyond Tariffs, Are Clouds Gathering For Chinese Consumers?
In some ways, the United States and China exist as mirror images, at least when it comes to economic drivers. In other...
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3.1KEconomyNew Tariffs On Clothes, Shoes To Hit Consumers In The Wallet
After the President Donald Trump administration added 15 percent tariffs to $112 billion of goods from China on Sunday (Sept. 1), China...
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2.1KInternationalApple Shows Reliance On China Ahead Of New Tariffs
Supply chain data from Apple indicates the tech firm is still dependent on China despite using manufacturing plants in Brazil and India,...
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2.7KEconomyConnecting The Dots: Consumer Confidence, Inventories Tell Separate Economic Tales
Economic data points are frozen in time – and yet taken collectively tell tales. The latest readings on consumer confidence and on...
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1.3KEconomyDo Soft US Business Investments Mean A Bumpy Holiday Season On Horizon?
Does a softness in investment activity by U.S. firms hint at a rocky fourth quarter and bumpy holiday spending season? As reported...
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3.2KInternationalHuawei Expects US Restrictions To Slash Smartphone Revenue By $10B
Huawei said that revenue loss from U.S. trade restrictions will hit it for about $10 billion, which is $20 billion less than...
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1.9KAppleTrump Said Tim Cook ‘Made A Good Case’ About Impact Of Tariffs
President Trump said on Monday (Aug. 19) that he spoke with Apple CEO Tim Cook over how U.S. tariffs on China will...
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Are Chinese Tech Stocks Set For Fizzle?
A trade war tariff reprieve does not a sustainable rally make, at least not for Chinese tech stocks. However, the news Thursday...
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3.9KBitcoinFor Cryptos, Geopolitics And Liquidity Don’t Mix
Cryptos and liquidity do not go hand in hand, especially not where geopolitics is concerned. Conventional wisdom may hold that cryptos are...
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2.2KInternationalEconomic Strength In China Paralyzed As Trade War Forges Ahead
High unemployment combined with weak production and consumption point to an ever-slowing economy in China as the trade war with the U.S....
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2.1KAppleSome Apple Products Will Face 10 Pct. Tariff
Bad news for Apple: The tech giant’s AirPods, Apple Watch and HomePod are not included in a temporary reprieve on tariffs by...
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2.2KEconomyWhy The Tariff Delays Do Not Equal Christmas In August
On second thought, hold the tariffs. Stocks took a leap — this time upward — on the heels of news that, amid...
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1.8KCommerceTrade Wars Could Cost Each US Consumer $900 This Holiday Season
All wars have casualties. And the casualties linger after the clashes stop. This will likely be the case as the U.S./China trade...
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3.1KInternationalWhy China’s SMB IOUs Spell Out Troubles Ahead
Déjà vu for IOUs — and because this is China we’re talking about, it may be the world economy that ultimately pays....
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2.9KMarketsBig Tech Pummeled On News Of China’s Currency Slide
U.S. stocks took their biggest hit of the year, with the country’s largest tech companies getting hit the hardest. CNBC reported that...
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1.8KEconomyEarnings Season, Where No News May Be Good News
In investing, information is king. And the markets, according to some observers, digest info quickly, and stock prices discount that information with haste....
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2.4KEarningsInvestors Brace For Rough Q2 Earnings
Despite that fact that stocks are reaching near record highs, 77 percent of companies that have issued pre-announcements ahead of earnings reports...
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4.7KRegulationTrump Pauses Addition Of New Tariffs On Chinese Products
The United States has removed certain restrictions on Huawei Technologies Co. The move comes as President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi...
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3.1KInternationalChinese Consumers’ Pullback Seen As A Global Economic Red Flag
One of the problems with trade wars is that they act more as bludgeon than scalpel. Tariffs, of course, make all sorts...
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2.1KRetailMacy’s, JCPenney Push Back Against 25 Pct Tariffs
Letters filed by department store retailers Macy’s and JCPenney, along with other companies, asked the U.S. Trade Representative to remove many footwear...
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1.8KAmazonUS-China Trade War Could Hurt Amazon Merchants
The escalating trade war between the United States and China is leaving many Amazon merchants wondering how to keep their businesses afloat...
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1.6KWalmart Amazon whole paycheckThe Amazon/Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: Rethinking And Realigning
While this tracker normally focuses entirely on the moves and counter-moves of Walmart and Amazon as they race for the greater share...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsChase, IBM CEOs Speak Out Against Trade Tariffs
Chief executive officers are continuing to raise concerns about rising global trade tensions and market volatility, reports from Yahoo Finance said Thursday...
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2.7KRetailNew Walmart System Lets Suppliers Increase Prices
Walmart has updated a tool to allow suppliers to submit cost increases related to higher U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods. The “Cost...
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1.7KAppleFoxconn Ready To Move Apple Production Out Of China
Foxconn Technology is prepared to move production for Apple out of China if the country’s trade war with the U.S. escalates. In...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsCEOs Ramp Up Risk Mitigation As Trade War Threat Grows
As the trade war between the U.S. and China could escalate, CEOs are trying to figure out how they will mitigate the...
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2.8KRetailRetail Clothing Sales Down 24 Percent, Worst Since ‘08
Clothing retailers like the Gap, Canada Goose and Abercrombie & Fitch are all experiencing troubling sales reports, the likes of which haven’t...
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2.1KSizzle/FizzleRetail’s Fizzling Store Count
Perhaps at this point it might be better to ask which retailers, if any, are not shuttering stores. The data came this...
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2.3KRetailRetail Store Closures Pass 7,150
This year is proving to be another tough one for brick-and-mortar stores, with Dressbarn, CVS, Party City and Pier 1 Imports being...
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1.8KInternationalChinese Gov’t Pours $22B To Prop Up Domestic Cos In 2018
The Chinese government increased subsidies it paid last year, aiming to help Chinese companies weather the economic slowdown in the country. According...
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Huawei CEO Against Apple Retaliation In China
Huawei Founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei said he doesn’t expect China to retaliate against Apple, despite the Chinese telecom company being blacklisted...
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2.8KCross Border CommerceTariff Battle May See Mounting Retail Casualties
Trade wars leave casualties on the economic battlefield, wounding balance sheets and earnings as the costs to import (and sell) goods mounts....
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4.5KMobileSamsung Aims To Cash In On Huawei’s Struggles
Samsung Electronics is looking to take advantage of the United States’ recent ban on Huawei Technologies. While Samsung has been struggling in...
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3.0KEconomyChina Tariffs Could Cost Americans $831 A Year
The New York Federal Reserve Bank published research on Thursday (May 23) saying that increased U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports will cost...
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1.9KRetailTreasury Sec., Walmart CFO Discuss China Trade War Price Effects
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Congress on Wednesday (May 22) that he spoke with Walmart Chief Financial Officer Brett Biggs about...
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2.4KEarningsKohl’s Eyes Amazon For In-Store Boost
It looks like rough sledding for Kohl’s ahead, but is Amazon to be a savior? Kohl’s first quarter results announced Tuesday (May...
