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The payments provider maintained impressive POS growth given heightened competition in the space

Holiday spend, international transactions, and non-card payments boosted growth

Migration across Latin America is down, damping remittance volume. Lower contributions from Iraq also hurt Western Union. The bigger picture: In the wake of slowing remittance growth, the company is focusing on new avenues to drive revenues鈥攍ike its financial media network (FMN). Earlier this month, Western Union partnered with sell-side advertising company Magnite to expand the network鈥檚 reach.

Its Old Navy label gained share with lower-income shoppers in Q4, while Gap won over middle- and high-income consumers.

Navigating US sanctions and a Chinese antitrust investigation could derail Nvidia鈥檚 supply chain, delay cutting-edge hardware, and challenge its dominance in a global market.

Its popularity is huge for ecommerce, specifically in Brazil, where the platform will launch TikTok Shop this year, noted our analyst Matteo Ceurvels. And TikTok鈥檚 Latin America growth mirrors global trends. The platform will grow by 11.6% worldwide this year, per our forecast. 5. TikTok takes No. 3 in Canada.

Despite slow US adoption and economic downturn affecting advertising, TikTok鈥檚 1 billion daily users and Instagram鈥檚 exit from live shopping present opportunities for growth.

US restaurant sales rose just 1.5% YoY in February: That鈥檚 one of the troubling signs in February鈥檚 weaker-than-expected retail sales numbers.

The explosion of softPOS is reshaping the POS landscape and forcing hardware and software providers to pivot

Search will account for 64.0% of retail media next year, as it is heavily tied to product discovery on ecommerce sites. Display will make up 25.0% of retail media ad spending, 11.0% of which will be video. In-store advertising makes up a small but growing share of dollars spent.

A $750 billion drop in market value reveals investor unease, with tariffs and recession worries putting pressure on consumer spending, marketing budgets, and tech margins.

Washington will have an outsized influence on what consumers eat this year: A new surgeon general鈥檚 warning, growing trade wars, and a crackdown on processed food could shift consumption patterns.

A nearly $1 trillion loss in a day signals market panic. Apple leads the fall, with ripple effects threatening AI growth, ad revenue, and cloud service pricing.