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Manufacturing Momentum Predicts Consumer Spend Recovery

PYMNTS

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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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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Russian Credit Health Keeps Rising

FICO

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

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

CB Insights

15 of the top 20 operate in the Greater Bay Area. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: Philadelphia, PA. He stayed with the company through its acquisition by Amazon in 2009 and joined Sequoia Capital as Partner in October 2010.

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When Retail Fraud Is An Inside Job

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23), the National Retail Federation (NRF) reviewed various research efforts that mete out how serious the threat against companies’ digital data from their own internal employees is — as well as, perhaps even more seriously, the fact that many retailers might not be considering that threat. In a story posted yesterday (Feb.

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The Good News About All Those Grocery Recalls

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Ever since CRF Frozen Foods first announced a voluntary recall of a handful of vegetable products over possible contamination earlier this spring, the great Listeria discovery run as roped in ConAgra and The Pictsweet Company — and popped up at the nation’s most recognizable retailers like Costco, Trader Joe’s, Harris Teeter and Kroger.

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Wal-Mart Bank is flying under the radar.

Jeff For Banks

I took a brief walk down the front of the store, past The Money Center, and encountered my second glimpse of Wal-Mart’s banking strategy, Woodforest National Bank (see photo). billion in deposits at June 30, 2009. In 2009, Woodforest reported net income of $83.1 Woodforest has dozens of proposed branches in the works.