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22.04.26 - 23:54
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California Exposes Amazon′s Alleged ′Retail Price Fixing′ In Unredacted Court Filing (ZeroHedge)
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California Exposes Amazon's Alleged 'Retail Price Fixing' In Unredacted Court Filing
California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday released a largely unredacted court filing packed with internal emails that allege Amazon strong-armed brands like Levi Strauss and Hanes into pressuring Walmart, Target and other rivals to raise prices - all to protect Amazon's $2.66 trillion empire.
The 19-page memorandum, filed in support of a preliminary injunction in San Francisco Superior Court, paints a picture of coordinated price elevation that Bonta calls “naked” and “per se illegal” under California's Cartwright Act. The evidence builds on documents the Guardian first reported on last week, but goes significantly further by naming major brands and quoting verbatim email chains that had remained heavily redacted until Monday.
"You don't see price fixing so explicitly and egregiously in writing like this," Bonta told reporters, framing the documents as proof that Amazon used its m...
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22.04.26 - 21:18
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Trump′s Shopping Spree for Equity Stakes Nears $21B (Bloomberg)
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Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." The Trump administration's $20.9 billion buying spree for equity stakes in private-sector companies is the biggest such push into strategic industries since the Second World War, according to research by the Council on Foreign Relations. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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22.04.26 - 13:00
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Why China′s cash-rich AI firm DeepSeek is still shopping for funding: sources (SCMP)
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Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has begun raising external capital for the first time, but is keeping its initial fundraising round deliberately small to limit equity dilution while retaining key talent, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Hangzhou-based company, a spin-off from hedge fund High-Flyer, is seeking to sell no more than 3 per cent of its equity, said three investors with direct knowledge of the plans, who requested anonymity as the information is......
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21.04.26 - 16:03
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US Employment Additions Accelerate As Retail Sales Soar In March (ZeroHedge)
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US Employment Additions Accelerate As Retail Sales Soar In March
BofA's (almost) omnipotent analysts forecasted a stronger than expected retail sales print this morning as tax refunds trump surging gas prices...
BofA credit/debit card spending data suggests stronger retail sales than estimates (consensus 1.4% headline, 1.4% ex auto, 0.2% control group) despite surging gas prices, driven by higher YTD tax refunds pic.twitter.com/6m6UvTpkr0
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 21, 2026
Headline retail sales printed +1.7% MoM in March (vs +1.4% MoM exp) - the strongest monthly rise since Jan 2023 - leaving retail sales up 4.0% YoY...
Source: Bloomberg
Under the hood, Gasoline Station spending dominated the surge in spending...
Source: Bloomberg
Automobile Wholesalers saw a sizable decline last month...
Source: Bloomberg
Ex-Autos and Ex-Autos-and-Gas both also beat expectations dramatically (+1.9% MoM vs +1.4% MoM and +0.6% MoM vs +0.3% MoM respectively).
Source: Bloomberg
The Retail Sales Control ...
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21.04.26 - 15:01
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Market Flash - US-Einzelhandelsumsatz (Helaba)
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Die Umsätze im Einzelhandel sind im März gestiegen, die Konsensschätzung wurde übertroffen. Für den Anstieg verantwortlich dürften die deutlich erhöhten Benzinpreise sein, denn bei den Umsatzzahlen handelt es sich um nominale Werte und der Absatz an den Tankstellen macht fast sieben Prozent des gesamten Einzelhandelsumsatzes aus. Auch der gestiegene Pkw-Absatz wirkt positiv. Ohne diese Komponente wurde aber ebenfalls ein ordentlicher Umsatzanstieg gemeldet. Alles in allem sprechen die Zahlen nicht für baldige Zinssenkungen seitens der US-Notenbank. Aus dem Kreis der FOMC-Vertreter waren zuletzt ohnehin eher zurückhaltende Äußerungen zu vernehmen..
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