Word: retailing
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...yield on 10-year Treasuries is around 6.5%; on two-year Treasuries, about 6.8%. When the "yield curve" inverts like this, bond traders are betting that short-term rates are high enough to cool the economy and keep inflation at bay. We're already seeing signs of slowing in retail sales and housing...
...viable as long as the companies controlled the quantity and destiny of that music. Metallica CDs have been available only from stores, catalogs and online sites, and sold at a price that covers production, marketing, distribution, royalties to the artist and, not least, the markup for record company and retailer. That's why CDs that each cost 50? to make retail for $15. As long as the only way to get that music was through those channels, then Metallica and its label, Electra (owned by Time Warner, TIME's publisher), had a great gig. Last week a Federal Trade Commission...
...want to use will be digital. But the paperless wallet has proved as practical as the paperless office. In late 1997, two New York City banks tried an experiment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. They spent millions installing special digital-cash-card machines in all kinds of retail sites--hairdressers, retail stores, even taxicabs. Then they distributed--for free--smart digital cards. Surely, if digital cash was this easy to use, people would stop using the green stuff. Wrong. It was just too hard to change people's habits. When it comes to cash, people don't want...
...same programs. But unlike the Palm line, Visor has a Game Boy-like slot in the back that allows you to drop in gear to extend the machine's functionality. Great idea, but as of last week I could find only three hardware add-ons that were available in retail stores--a modem, a universal remote and a digital camera. The EyeModule ($149) camera is a particularly fun idea, but the color images are a murky 320x240 pixels...
However, according to Murphy and other sources close to the deal, IDM is hoping to find a single, large retail store to occupy the entire building, although they have not yet secured such a tenant...