Visa, along with Mastercard, effectively form a duopoly in the payment-processing market. A recent study shows that Visa (53%) and Mastercard (32%) make up 85% of credit cards. Mastercard is also a terrific company, but Visa's market share is superior.
Fintech company Bluevine has released its mid-year Small Business Owner Success Survey, revealing encouraging results. The survey found that 88% of owners felt they met or exceeded their business expectations in the first half of 2024, with 73% maintaining similar levels of optimism or confidence for the second half of the year. Bluevine CEO Eyal Lifshitz joins Wealth! to discuss these findings and offer insights for small business owners. Lifshitz observes that sentiment among small business owners is "generally" positive despite economic uncertainties. However, he highlights several "avoidable mistakes" that small business owners often make. These include using personal credit cards for business purposes, lacking sufficient cash reserves to navigate potential cash flow crunches, and failing to establish a line of credit that can fund company growth. To help small business owners prepare for the future, Lifshitz offers two key pieces of advice: plan ahead for uncertainty — whether positive or negative — and ensure that your finances are in order to maintain stability. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Wealth! This post was written by Angel Smith
Former immigration minister Robert Jenrick tops the vote to replace Rishi Sunak with ex-home secretary James Cleverly in third
The Israeli military says it struck “senior Hamas terrorists” operating there - a claim hamas denied.
Actor John Cena recently lent his talents to a marketing campaign for Supercell’s mobile game “Brawl Stars,” which has introduced a collaboration with Nickleodeon’s “SpongeBob SquarePants” amid the cartoon’s 25th anniversary. While a seemingly strange choice of star to promote the Paramount-Supercell teamup, Cena explained to Variety how his passion for mobile gaming and his …
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The singer talked to 'Rolling Stone' about her lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder — and how she’s learning to maintain boundaries with fans
It says she was probably hit indirectly and unintentionally at a protest in the occupied West Bank.
While tariffs are technically considered taxes, the debate over who pays them and whether they work can influence how people view them.
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Ed Burns and Christy Turlington have been married since 2003; they share two children, Grace McKenna Burns, 20, and Finn Burns, 18
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Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, retired Air Force colonel Scott Poteet, and SpaceX employees Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon will launch a mission on SpaceX's Crew Dragon to attempt the first-ever private spacewalk. It will be the spacecraft's fifth - and riskiest - private space mission so far.
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Watch as the Aston Martin F1 team announces Adrian Newey's move at their Silverstone base on Tuesday, 10 September. The design guru, 65, who has been with Red Bull for 19 years, is set to sign a £20m-a-year contract with Lawrence Stroll’s team. Newey has previously worked for Williams and McLaren, and won 12 drivers’ and 13 constructors’ championships during a successful 30-year career.
Google stock broke below its long-term 200-day line last week. And Alphabet hit its lowest level since March during Monday's sell-off.
The RSPCA is urging witnesses to come forward after the animal was found in Chelmsford.
Imports of U.S. container cargo in August jumped 12.9% from a year ago as a summer volume surge delayed cargo at major ports and anxiety builds over a threatened longshore worker strike on the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico on Oct. 1, trade data provider Descartes Systems Group said on Tuesday. U.S. seaports processed almost 2.5 million 20-foot equivalent units in August. Volume above 2.4 million TEU created bottlenecks and cargo backups in the early days of the pandemic, according to Descartes, a supply-chain software provider.
The portion of Americans who had health insurance for all or part of the year in 2023 was 92%, compared with 92.1% for all or part of 2022 according to a report released by the Census Bureau on Tuesday. The percentage of people covered by private insurers was 65.4%, including slight increases in enrollment in Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace plans and Tricare coverage for military members. Overall, the change in health insurance coverage was not statistically different in 2023 from 2022, the Census said.
STORY: :: SpaceX / PolarisA billionaire, a retired U.S. Air Force pilot, and two SpaceX employees blasted off on Tuesday for a five-day mission that aims to test new suits in the vacuum of space.The mission's Falcon 9 booster rocket successfully separated from the capsule and landed safely back onto a seaborne pod.Around nine minutes after liftoff the capsule reached orbit, and the crew batted around a small plush astronaut toy dog in zero gravity. It is Crew Dragon's fifth - and riskiest - private mission so far, because it involves the crew exiting the capsule on what is known as a spacewalk.::NASA TVOnly highly trained, well-funded government astronauts have done spacewalks in the past. This one will involve Jared Isaacman, the 41-year-old billionaire founder of electronic payment company Shift4, who is bankrolling the mission.He's gone to space before, in 2021, and has declined to say how much he is paying for the missions, but they are likely to cost hundreds of millions of dollars.Joining him is Scott Poteet, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, and two SpaceX engineers: Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon.For the spacewalk, in two day's time, the entire capsule will depressurize and the crew will be reliant on their spacesuits for oxygen. Isaacman and Gillis will exit the capsule, tethered by an oxygen line.Tuesday's launch included a moment of wow, when the Crew Dragon separated from its support trunk in orbit, with onboard cameras revealing a spectacular view of the capsule over the sunlit Earth.
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