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Capital Market Assumptions

TrustBank

Emotions drive markets in the short term, so no matter how good your information is, trying to guess where the market will be in a year is just that – a guess. Therefore, our capital market assumptions are based on expectations for average returns over the next 10 years. annualized over the next 10 years.

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Top News In Payments: Antitrust Probe For Google Shopping Comparison Tool; Visa Warns Of Rise in Gas Station POS Cyberattacks

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Department of Justice is expanding its antitrust probe to include Google’s online shopping comparison tool, and Visa warns of an increase in fuel dispenser POS cyberattacks. US Antitrust Regs Probe Google’s Shopping Comparison Tool. Also, Uber is negotiating the sale of Uber Eats to India’s Zomato.

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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

South State Correspondent

In comparison, investments in new technology or new business lines pale in comparison to other strategic investments due to the time and effort it takes to get a business line off the ground. Your capital is likely in it for the long why shouldn’t your strategy match? This, however, could be a mistake.

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Central clearing and the functioning of government bond markets

BankUnderground

Yuliya Baranova, Eleanor Holbrook, David MacDonald, William Rawstorne, Nicholas Vause and Georgia Waddington The functioning of major government bond and related repo markets has deteriorated on several occasions in recent years as trading demand has overwhelmed dealers’ intermediation capacity.

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Coronavirus: Economist Says Housing Market ‘Shutdown’ Likely; Zillow Suspends Home Buying With Zillow Offers

PYMNTS

One market expert says that the COVID-19 outbreak will probably bring the housing market to a stop. In comparison to the weekend of March 8, there were 28 percent fewer open houses during the March 15 weekend in New York City. Kapfidze recommends that in the interim that the government extend lenders lines of credit.

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CPG Companies Capitalize On Dramatic Digital Shift

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By way of comparison, spending at brick-and-mortar drugstores was down 5 percent and total trips across CPG outlets were down 3 percent compared to the year-ago period during the week ending Aug. According to BCG, that number is right around the 5 to 7 percent market share that is currently being seen.

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Bank IT Spending – Use These Metrics to Improve Performance

South State Correspondent

Marketing and technology (IT) are two budgets that have taken the most significant hit. Benchmarking can help banks better optimize capital as it gives bank management a sense of what the average is for the industry. IT Investment By Category Perhaps the most helpful benchmarking data is to see where peer banks spend their IT capital.

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