Consumer Spending

Robots Sizzle, Tax Reform Fizzles And Facebook Raises Eyebrows With Its Timing
Robots Sizzle, Tax Reform Fizzles And Facebook Raises Eyebrows With Its Timing
May 04, 2018  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

Fizzle of the Week: Timing Spring has finally arrived across the United States, and love is in the air. Even on Facebook. The social media...

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Five At Five: Birchbox’s Buyer And Robot-Prepared Pizza
Five At Five: Birchbox’s Buyer And Robot-Prepared Pizza
May 02, 2018  |  News

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at some of the freshest payments news of the day. Today’s stories include details about Birchbox’s future...

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Five At Five: Mastercard Makes A Biometric Bet
Five At Five: Mastercard Makes A Biometric Bet
May 01, 2018  |  News

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at some of the freshest payments news of the day. Today’s stories include a new mark in...

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Higher US Spending Marks McDonald’s Results, Hints At Resilient Consumer
Higher US Spending Marks McDonald’s Results, Hints At Resilient Consumer
May 01, 2018  |  Earnings

Think of it as a measure of the economy, rendered in meat, bread, pickles and ketchup.  Cheese too, if you like. The latest quarterly results...

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?
Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?
April 30, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

Benjamin Franklin is best remembered as a signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and a prolific inventor who created the lightning rod after...

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Trolli Sour Bright Sneaks Are A Shoe-In With Gen Z
Trolli Sour Bright Sneaks Are A Shoe-In With Gen Z
April 26, 2018  |  Retail

Pop culture and trends have always influenced fashion, but the way that’s happening seems to be changing. It’s not just, “What is my favorite celebrity...

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Higher Consumer Confidence And Homes Sales Bode Well
Higher Consumer Confidence And Homes Sales Bode Well
April 24, 2018  |  Economy

Two new reports point to underlying strength in the U.S. economy, despite signs that growth slowed in the first quarter, Reuters reported on Tuesday (April...

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Consumer Convenience, Retail And Payments Disintermediation
Consumer Convenience, Retail And Payments Disintermediation
April 23, 2018  |  Innovation

Disintermediating the established intermediaries has become something of an art form in payments and retail these days. Physical retail is being disintermediated by a host...

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IMF: Debt Levels At Historic High, Govts Should Look To Trim
IMF: Debt Levels At Historic High, Govts Should Look To Trim
April 19, 2018  |  Debt

Debt, as measured globally, is at the highest levels ever seen, at an aggregate of $164 trillion. Is it time to sound the alarms? The...

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