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...Discounts at Tesla and Ford have contributed to rising sales. Tesla delivered a record 466,000 cars between April and June after cutting prices in the US in January by up to $13,000 across models....
...Macy’s on Tuesday said it would take “a cautious view on the consumer and their capacity to spend on the discretionary categories we sell” and reported it had offered large discounts to clear inventory....
GM, Volkswagen, Hyundai and Kia decline to follow competitors as customer demand persists
...Grayscale is suing the SEC for its refusal to allow it to convert GBTC into an ETF, a move that, if allowed, would probably see the discount disappear....
...Walmart said it expected to continue to gain from higher-income shoppers, who are searching for discounts amid persistent inflation....
...“Maybe if the situation improves, I can reduce the discount.”...
...It’s been 60 years since Sam Walton expanded from this small shop to open the first Walmart discount store nearby, and 30 years since he died. But “Mr Sam” and his company still dominate Bentonville....
...If you can’t do that, you give them a discount....
...Throughout the market, so-called “Covid discounts” are slowly disappearing....
...The total reduction amounted to a 10 per cent discount on the apartment’s original asking price....
...Courting leisure travellers, he added, is “the only avenue they’ve got left, so I can see why they’re doing it, but it just seems like desperation”....
...Artificial intelligence, aided by the crunching of big data, has opened greater avenues for creating new treatments or care plans....
...Lululemon has had some success in turning stores into destinations — an elusive goal in retail — such as its 20,000 sq ft “experiential” store in Chicago, which offers yoga studios....
...The process will see Barneys close its stores in Chicago, Las Vegas and Seattle, along with five smaller “concept” stores and seven warehouses....
...In Chicago, it is connecting people with temporary shift work. In lower Manhattan, it offers $200 helicopter rides to JFK airport....
...Our new 200p PT is based on our NPV of individual assets using a discount rate of 10% vs 12% previously following the settlement....
...Apartments in 432 Park Avenue, an 88-storey skyscraper in New York, are selling at discounts of more than 20 per cent; one sold late last year for $11m below its last asking price....
...In addition, all the companies fined received 20 per cent discounts after admitting breaches of competition law....
...Stores are shutting on New York’s Fifth Avenue as the retail sector suffers in the face of the relentless rise of ecommerce....
...But they also fell 24 per cent across its other international markets, most notably in Europe and Latin America, as the company was forced to discount to clear inventories in those regions....
...In May, Cincinnati-based Fifth Third agreed to buy Chicago’s MB Financial for $4.7bn....
...Apple has long courted students and teachers for its devices, offering educational discounts and software tools such as iBooks Textbooks....
...But while the curve currently reflects a contango structure in terms of prices last traded, the bid on the February future is wavering between discount and premium status....
...Apple’s newest tablet will cost $329 for regular customers, but schools will pay $299 and also get a $10 discount to the Pencil’s $99 price....
...Saks Fifth Avenue holiday light show may keep visitors happy, but investors in its parent company, Hudson’s Bay, showed no holiday cheer on Wednesday....
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