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Manufacturing Momentum Predicts Consumer Spend Recovery

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To that end, the latest data from the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) showed on Monday (Nov. The report from the ISM Manufacturing Report on Business PMI (a gauge of national factory activity) stood at 59.3, Consensus had pegged the PMI (purchasing manager’s index) to come in at 56. Seems like the rebound has legs.

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FinCEN AML/CTF Priorities Part 4: Counterproliferation

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North Korea has been silently ramping up their nuclear capabilities for years despite increasingly tough comprehensive United Nations sanctions in place since 2006 that have banned most of the country’s exports and severely limited its imports. In early 2019 Syria used chlorine gas against its own nationals. Continuing education.

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How Swifter Sports Payments Keep The (Soccer) Ball Rolling

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The shortage threatens to hamstring kids’ abilities to play games as schools across the nation report declines. The Michigan High School Athletic Association, for instance, reported 12,722 registered sports officials in the 2008 to 2009 academic year, and that total fell to only 9,816 in the 2017 to 2018 season.

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Vacation Rental Home Startup Vacasa Isn’t Just An Airbnb Knockoff

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First, according to Breon, Vacasa tends to operate in smaller towns and more affluent communities, where people have vacation or second homes, as opposed to larger cities and urban centers, where Airbnb typically dominates the market. A lot of the properties we manage are owned by people who are very busy and very successful.

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The Surge Of Digital Payments In India

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Here’s a piece on how it has managed to do so. The government created the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) in April 2009 as a result of this background. The National Payments Corporation of India, India’s regulating organisation, follows. UPI has revolutionized the way we transact.

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The Surprise And No Delight Edition: Whole Foods, Sonic and BAMS

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In the “what else could possibly go wrong, cybersecurity edition” category, particularly in the aftermath of the torrents of coverage on the Equifax breach , it seems the cybercriminals didn’t all retire after the announcement – in fact, they managed to find their way into the Whole Foods and Sonic POS systems and steal cardholder data.

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Russian Credit Health Keeps Rising

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Just as millions of Americans check their FICO Scores to see how their credit is doing, FICO and the National Bureau of Credit Histories (NBKI), Russia’s leading credit bureau, keep tabs on the health of Russian consumers. The base was set at 100 in July 2009, and it climbed until the end of October 2011. “The