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Gauging Coronavirus Ripple Effects (And Limitations) On Interest Rates — And Borrowing

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That’s because investors typically embrace bonds as a less risky alternative to equities or other asset classes, and as they buy bonds, prices go up, and yields go down. percent, per data from the Mortgage Bankers Association, and as cited by CNBC , down from 3.7 This week has seen the twin impacts of panic and policy.

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America’s Daunting Debt Picture

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Even big brick-and-mortar players like Macy’s have shown signs of reversing their recent ill fortune by luring customers back into their stores. Even big brick-and-mortar players like Macy’s have shown signs of reversing their recent ill fortune by luring customers back into their stores. household indebtedness. indebtedness in 2018.

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Banking's Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: 2022 Edition

Jeff For Banks

I call this "pulling into the pits" in my book: Squared Away-How Can Bankers Succeed as Economic First Responders. Before we begin and for comparison purposes, here are last year's top five , as measured in December 2021: #1. And I am weary of the persistent "get big or get out" mentality of many industry pundits.

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Enterprise Intelligence: 5 Steps to Ending a Whac-a-Mole Approach

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It is a kiosk game with a waist-high playing surface with five holes, where plastic “moles” reside; these moles randomly pop up out of their holes, but quickly drop back down into them. Their challenge is to attract and retain new customers and curtail defections by existing ones before they disappear… hence, the comparison to Whac-A-Mole.

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121 Of The Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures Of All Time

CB Insights

Long-time Free-Space Optics (FSO) player AOptix has shut up shop and is selling off its assets at auction next week… the company is currently trying to shop around its intellectual property. For those who’ve been reading, we’ve had failure on the brain recently. Some of the fail-related research we’ve issued includes: The Downround Tracker.

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It’s Time To Reset Consumer Financial Protection

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These days, consumers definitely need consumer financial protection. They are preyed upon by providers looking to make money on folks who are gullible, innumerate or just not paying attention. Fraud and deception are all too common. There’s something else consumers usually need at various times in their lives: a loan. It is time for a reset.

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