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How Business Intelligence Aids Business Decision Making

Tom Spencer

Consider a company operating in the retail industry, which has a large assortment of different products in its inventory and a dozen stores. Now suppose that management wants to compile a list of most sold products for each store. For example, the top sold products could differ from store to store.

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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

Bank’s Income Statement It’s important to note that banks have diverse product offerings and client types, and the reporting of business lines such as retail banking, wholesale banking, and wealth management can vary between different banks. For the sake of simplicity, we will present the information in a consolidated manner.

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Two-Week Price Inflation in Argentina hits 30%, US Products Lead the Way; Currency Devaluations Hit P&G Earnings

MishTalk

A tour of various supermarkets in the city of Buenos Aires, found escalating inflation is much higher in stock products, perfumery and milk. Forbes explains Venezuela, Argentina Currency Devaluations Hit P&G Expected Sales And Earnings. certain P&G products — are exchanged. Here are some price increases from the article.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business

That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. As a result, their balance sheets are half as large on a risk-adjusted basis, and the capital they hold against trading positions has doubled over the past decade, our research shows.

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5 Ways to Increase Your Cross-Selling

Harvard Business

As a result, USAA outperforms most competitors in the number of products held by its customers. A similar story can be told in retail banking, insurance, credit cards, retail, and other industries. Take a balance-sheet view. Take a balance-sheet view. USAA is something of an exception, though.

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Banks – Industry Overview

Tom Spencer

In secondary markets, the sales & trading function operates as a market maker. Commercial vs Retail Banking. For the sake of this post, it is important to understand the basic distinctions between commercial and retail banking. While on the retail banking side, there are consumer credit providers and mortgage lenders.

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

MishTalk

Third-quarter Gross Domestic Product grew at a 1.5 Bob Costello, chief economist for the American Trucking Associations, recently told an industry gathering that the third quarter economic slowdown was merely a blip on the radar, fueled by manufacturers and retailers burning off excess inventory from earlier in the year. in September.