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Sales Of Existing US Residences Hit Record High In 2020

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The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said on Friday (Jan. 22) that existing-home sales increased in December, while home sales for last year reached their highest point since 2006, according to a press release. At the same time, millennial consumers have dramatically increased the clip of their home purchasing.

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Retailers, Here Are This Year’s Most Important Halloween Trends

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And that, according to new data released by the National Retail Federation , is precisely the point, as Halloween is a less “traditional” holiday than most and therefore more open to different interpretations for how to celebrate it. Millennials are also the top costume spenders, spending $42.39 percent from 2006.

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The Wonder Of Wegmans

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They were aware of what millennials wanted before the millennials even got there and that ‘shopping’ didn’t mean filling your cart with canned peas; it meant hanging out, learning about food and eating it.”. Wegmans was prescient,” on grocery analyst noted. And of course what Wegmans stocks and how it prices are a big factor.

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4Moms: Predicting Parent Pain Points

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The current incarnation is the overly fussy millennial mom who has custom-color-change bath beads to test the baby’s water — or the urban lumberjack dad with smart-fabric kids’ clothes that allow him to monitor his toddler’s core temperature while they take their daily walk in the park together. It’s neat, I guess, but so what.”.

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Top 5 Risk Analytics Posts: From Rising FICO Scores to Alt-Data

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For the first time since we’ve been tracking these stats, the average national FICO Score reached the 700 threshold — some 10 points above what it was just prior to the recession in October 2006.”. Millennials and Credit: Are We Missing the Real Story? Read the full post.

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Hit The Ground Running: 15 Early-Stage Fitness Tech Startups To Watch

CB Insights

The companies below were selected based on the recency and size of their disclosed funding and their Mosaic score, CB Insights’ National Science Foundation-backed algorithm that uses financial and non-financial signals to predict private company health. Founded in 2006, IncludeFitness offers inclusive cloud-based fitness equipment.

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Amazon Vs. Alibaba: How The E-Commerce Giants Stack Up In The Fight To Go Global

CB Insights

Millennials account for one-third of India’s population. Alipay formed a partnership with the Australian Tourism Export Council (ATEC) with the goal of expanding its mobile payments platform into the nation’s tourism industry. In 2020, Chinese visitors are projected to spend $13B in Australia, including education expenses.