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Robinhood Faces Another Service Interruption Due To Technical Issue

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The financial technology company is regarded for helping to make trading in vogue with millennials, Reuters reported. “We Robinhood was at the heart of a recent increase in day trading, with retail investors stuck in their residences because of pandemic restrictions. The app was up in under an hour.

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Millennials Vs. Baby Boomers: When Does The ‘Cashless Society’ Begin?

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More than one out of four millennials carry less than $5 cash with them. And according to another study, nearly 20 percent of millennials have not used cash in two months. With a fifth of millennials already rarely using cash, it is clear that this is happening relatively rapidly,” said Kalle Marsal, CMO of Mitek.

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12 Industries That Will Thrive Thanks To Millennials

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Popular media coverage of millennials often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. Some industries benefiting from millennials’ increased spending power, such as travel, reflect well-worn Gen Y tropes like the general preference for “experiences” over things.

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Mobile Banking and Millennials – Will the Love Last?

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A lot of fuss is made over millennials and their proclivities toward things being easy. So, when it comes to something like digital banking , it’s not so much about finding what’s easy as it is about finding what service best meets millennials’ needs. Millennials to big banks: No thanks ….

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Does Destination Maternity Chain Bankruptcy Signal Larger Trends?

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Retail chain Destination Maternity reportedly filed for bankruptcy on Monday (Oct. According to CNBC , the retailer is “buckling under the weight of an onerous debt load and struggling to compete with better capitalized competition.” The company owns 458 stores in the U.S., billion in 2013, representing a 2.10 Larger Trends.

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Can Six Days Make (Or Break) The Holiday 2019 Shopping Season?

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Until 1939 that is, when the last Thursday in November fell on the 30th and retailers flooded President Franklin Delano Roosevlents office and begged him to consider moving the date. There was the small matter of a raging depression — and retailers argued that the shortened shopping season could do them in. The Sky Is Falling .

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What Moved Movado About MVMT

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A lifestyle brand for millennial buyers with an eye for design – but perhaps not the pocketbook for designer prices – the watch and accessories startup MVMT started on its path in 2013. After doing some research on suppliers, the duo found quite a staggering gap between wholesale and retail prices in watch brands.