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Cross-border ecommerce continues to rise in popularity among US consumers, even as growth in the number of buyers slows. In 2023, the US will rank second globally in total cross-border buyers, with 69.8 million, per our forecast. It will trail far behind China’s 280.0 million, but that’s because of relative population sizes.

So pretty impressive and same for the US and Canada. Actually best numbers since that quarter Q2 2020. This Q3, they added 2 million new folks in the US and Canada. And Danny through three quarters, Netflix this year, through Q1, Q2, Q3, Netflix has added twice as many new subscribers as they did the entirety of last year and they still got Q4 to go as well.

A major dockworkers strike seems increasingly likely: The disruption will begin October 1, just as several retailers begin launching holiday promotions.

As open banking nears, financial institutions should be thinking about its impact on customers who likely bank elsewhere, too.

Canada. Paul Verna:. Finland. Marcus Johnson:. It is Finland. Finland has been crowned the world's happiest country for the seventh Successive year in the newly released World Happiness Report 2024, compiled using data from over 140 countries. The report was published annually by Gallup, the UN, and the University of Oxford.

All right, Canada. Oscar Orozco:. Yeah. Marcus Johnson:. Go Canada. Yes. Oscar Orozco:. That's cool. I absolutely love when they retire jerseys, there's nothing more... I'm not a player, but I would feel like for them, there's nothing more sort of inspiring and just meaningful when they're retired. I would've guessed maybe Jackie Robinson, so I was surprised. That's pretty far back.

Roblox wants to be an ecommerce platform: After a pilottesting physical goods sales with Walmart and E.l.f. Beauty, the gaming platform sees big potential in online sales.

In Canada, it's nine in 10 people in the population. This is a really, really valuable piece of advertising real estate. By the same token, CTV ad spend is beginning to slow down a little bit, so I think this is one area that could help keep it buoyant for a little while longer. I don't think it's going to be revolutionary in any way and the needle won't fly, but it will do enough.