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☆ Indian shares slip on COVID-19, inflation worries
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BENGALURU, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Indian shares slipped on Thursday, with declines seen across most sectors after monetary policy minutes revealed strong concerns about elevated inflation, while fears about rising COVID-19 cases in China weighed on sentiment. India's health minister on Wednesday said the pandemic was "not over yet" given "the rising cases of COVID-19 in some countries". Asian markets also advanced after the bounce in U.S. shares, with the MSCI Asia ex Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) rising 1.49%. India's retail inflation eased below the RBI's upper tolerance limit of 6% for the first time in 2022 in November, but core inflation stayed above 6%. Khemka also said the remarks from the RBI minutes were "consistent with the central bank's adherence to tackling inflation".

U.S. shoppers spent $35.27 billion online overall during Cyber Week, the period from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday. But the modest pickup trounced the paltry 2.9% increase in sales during China's Singles Day, an 11-day shopping festival ending November 11, hosted by Alibaba and other Chinese e-commerce firms. Originally, Singles Day was an unofficial Chinese holiday on Nov. 11 (11/11) to celebrate people who were not in relationships. These days, brands use Singles Day to clear inventory and experiment with new products. With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging in China, "it wont be fair to can compare" Singles Day with Cyber Week, Chernev said, as Americans are shopping with fewer restrictions.

☆ Stocks and bonds are struggling. Give these strategies a shot instead, say Goldman and others
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Weizhen Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Both stocks and bonds have struggled this year, leaving investors with few alternatives. Stocks and bonds usually move in opposite directions, but that hasn't been the case this year. Trend-following strategy Adopting the so-called trend-following strategy this year would pay off for investors, according to Goldman and Wells Fargo in recent notes. Portfolio diversification can, and often should, include more than stocks and bonds," said Hazlitt Gill, retail investment research senior manager. Alternative investments UBS in an Oct. 21 note said investors can use structured investments to "tilt the odds favorably."

Adidas shutting down its partnership with Kanye West is just the latest shoe to drop surrounding the artist's recent run of controversial public behavior. To Adidas, the reputational cost of maintaining ties with Ye ultimately outweighed those considerations, said Neil Saunders, managing director at the GlobalData Retail research group and consultancy. Adidas will stop the Adidas Yeezy business with immediate effect." Instead, it was likely the growing threat of an international boycott that pushed Adidas to sever ties, said Kenneth Anand, Goldstein's co-author of "Sneaker Law." "So they had to act very fast to sever ties given what had transpired," Anand said of Adidas.

☆ 'There are a lot of miserable women in corporate America': Women leaders have been leaving their jobs and companies in unprecedented numbers, a new report suggests
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A new report suggests female executives ditched their jobs in unprecedented numbers in 2021. The report suggests women leaders experience a range of microaggressions that undercut their authority and stymie their career progression. For instance, the report indicated that 37% of female leaders had had a coworker get credit for their idea, compared with 27% of male leaders. It also suggested that women leaders were twice as likely as men to be mistaken for someone more junior. Wade Hinton, an inclusion consultant, told Insider he's not surprised by the large numbers of women leaders leaving their employers.

☆ Nike is clamping down on resellers botting its apps, but insiders and analysts say new policies don't go far enough
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday reported on a recent change to Nike's terms of sale. A Nike insider, as well as analysts, said it's a good move, but it won't solve the problem. But Nike's revised terms of sale, while applauded by many, still comes up short of a full solution to its reselling problem, insiders and analysts said. Nike also has policies that prohibit reselling in Europe and South Korea, but they don't specifically state any repercussions. In September, Nike reported a 44% increase in inventory.

☆ Social Commerce 2022: Social media and ecommerce convergence trends bring growth opportunity for brands
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-27 | by ( Insider Intelligence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

US retail social commerce sales will reach $36.62 billion in 2021, but that’s still about one-tenth the size of China’s social commerce market. Social commerce trendsThanks to the example set by China, brands remain optimistic about the future of social commerce. Examples of social commerce companiesSocial media companies have comparative strengths that determine its approach to social commerce. TwitterProbably the least popular social platform when it comes to social commerce is Twitter—especially after dropping its buy button feature in 2017. Social commerce market stats & outlookInsider Intelligence forecasts that US retail social commerce sales will rise by 24.9% to $45.74 billion in 2022.

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