In many industries, long payment cycles are an unfortunate reality. Waiting 30 or 45 days to receive payment is widespread in the business world, and it can take much longer. This can create cash flow ...

Each customer has a set price they are willing to pay for your product. Unfortunately, it's rarely the same as the one advertised on your site. That's because there are three main types of customers: ...

Wall Street analysts sometimes describe a stock selling at a discount as a value trap. The price is lower for a reason, they say, because of problems that aren t readily apparent. Processing Content ...

Luxury goods companies are facing renewed pressure on profitability after a sharp rise in discounting during 2025, as ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released its preliminary analysis of the Boxer-Kerry cap-and-trade bill. It largely reheats their analysis of the Waxman-Markey bill from last summer ...

Discounting has endured because it works — that is, during normal shopping cycles. The cliche goes that COVID-19 has put us in unprecedented times. For retail, there’s a sad truth behind the adage. On ...

When two different coalitions of industry players announced their proposals to overhaul the fashion calendar last week, both groups addressed the industry’s discounting problem. The coalitions called ...

Desperate to get shoppers in the door, department stores are discounting the one item they had long been able to sell at full price: cosmetics. Some executives warned that discounting is a short-term ...

Corporate bankers accustomed to the time-tested practice of lending at X percent, paying depositors at Y percent, and leaving off the spread i.e. (X-Y) are in for a rude awakening in the near future.

For businesses that export or import, letters of credit are the financial security of international trade. A letter of credit allows an importer to make sure that an order is filled and shipped before ...