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...Plaid’s investors include Silver Lake Partners and Ribbit Capital, as well as the asset management arms of JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and American Express....
...Chief among them: the airline’s long-standing credit card deal with American Express....
...Merchants are currently able to charge an extra fee for consumers who use American Express cards, but Visa and Mastercard have blocked sellers from doing so for their users....
...We have no power over the tastes they express yet are compelled to make a decision to display or to discard....
...American Express Global Business Travel has agreed to buy rival CWT for $570mn in a bet on the continued recovery of business travel....
...In 2022, a third of American teens said they were using at least one of YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook “almost constantly”....
...For the past five years, I have been covering tech for Nikkei Asia from the centre of American innovation....
...In this year’s shareholder letter, Buffett discussed Berkshire’s ongoing winnings from American Express and Coca-Cola, both big blue-chip bets made in the 1990s....
...A complicating factor is that you cannot read directly from Walmart’s results the state of the American consumer....
...My teenage daughter thought of Jeffrey Dahmer, the American serial killer who has been recently introduced to a new generation via a Netflix drama series....
...John Derian agrees: “It’s a fun way to express yourself. They become heirlooms.”...
...“In the early days, people underestimated ‘Bayo’,” said Kenneth Chenault, former CEO of American Express, and a close friend of Ogunlesi since both were at Harvard Law School....
...The American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen noted at the turn of the 20th century that, at the same time the clothing of the leisure classes must display wealth and taste, the wearer must never...
...Gap Inc is currently in crisis. Its brands — Old Navy, Gap, Athleta and Banana Republic — face weak or falling sales and the business is lossmaking....
...In November, Anne Hathaway hosted the CFDA Fashion Awards, an annual ceremony that honours the best of American fashion....
...Their spending has bounced back quickly, she said, but it has gone on holidays rather than on clothing....
...Alongside the Alpine hotel, he is also developing a line of outdoor clothing....
...But he also wanted to express his gratitude for the Trump administration’s decision to approve an application allowing him to develop a North Carolina casino with a Native American tribe....
...“Clients are saying we can no longer work with American consulting firms,” said one executive at a US consultancy....
...Plaid now counts several large banks as customers as well as investors, including the asset management arms at JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and American Express....
...The figures are distorted by movements in the value of its mammoth $353bn stock portfolio, which includes stakes in Apple, American Express and Bank of America....
...Citizens Financial, Synchrony Bank, American Express and Capital One are among those that are peddling accounts that pay out annual percentage yields of 3.5 per cent and above....
...Earlier this year, the US government called for a ban or divestiture of the short-form video app, fearing it could harvest data on its 150mn American users for Chinese espionage purposes....
...Other understated accessories, such as the Hermès mini Lindy, the Loewe Paseo bag and the Margaux tote from American brand The Row made the cut....
...Express, Freddie Mac, Gillette, Freddie Mac, Wells Fargo, Washington Post)....
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