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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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According to IDC analysts, businesses were estimated to have spent $215 billion in 2021 on big data and business analytics solutions, a 10% increase over 2020. At the same time, data models for understanding customer intent and other insights are not infallible; even data-driven companies are a constant work in progress.

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Pettis on Strains in China's Banking System; Avoiding the Fall

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All the various measures of inflation have dropped this year, with Monday’s data showing that the producer-price index dropped 2.7% While the benchmark deposit rate was officially lowered from 3.00% to 2.75%, the upper limit that banks can pay for deposits remained unchanged at 3.30%. Consumer prices rose 1.4%, even lower than the 1.6%

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Reflections on 2013; What's Important, What's Not? What's Ahead?

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Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. Total credit in the economy (total social financing) showed a 40 per cent rise in November over the prior month and is on course for growth this year of almost 20 per cent.