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Supply chain bottlenecks will persist unless one of two things happens, expert explains

Although businesses may be struggling with unexpected cargo delays, supply chain bottlenecks may not be resolved in the near term. “I don’t see a line of sight where this ends anytime soon,” Weston LaBar, head of strategy at Cargomatic, a freight load-matching company, told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). Some experts even expect the supply chain problems to hit the holiday shopping season. Container ships have been delayed for days at major ports on the West Coast, and trucking routes have… Source link

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‘There really is a perfect storm’ of supply chain issues, logistics expert explains

Supply chain bottlenecks are squeezing businesses big and small. One expert explains why it’s so hard to iron out the major kinks affecting global trade. “There really is a perfect storm going on,” Adam Compain, senior vice president at project44, a supply chain technology provider, told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). Compain laid out three major reasons why ports are so backed up and there’s red-hot demand for truckers.  “First and foremost is customer expectations have risen only in one… Source link

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Nike earnings preview: Supply chain issues loom

On Thursday after the bell, Nike (NKE) will report first-quarter results, and while most analysts believe that the sportswear giant will post strong earnings, supply chain issues as a result of factory closings in Vietnam loom large. Analysts polled by Bloomberg predict Nike will report adjusted earnings per share of $1.15 on revenue of $12.472 billion. Over the past few months, COVID-19 cases in Vietnam have continued to rise. However, its vaccination rates have continued to lag behind its… Source link

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Nike downgraded by BTIG amid continuing COVID-related supply chain disruptions

As a result of worsening supply chain disruption in Vietnam, BTIG has downgraded Nike’s (NKE) rating from Buy to Neutral. “We believe the risk of significant cancellations beginning this holiday and running through at least next spring has risen materially for NKE as it is now facing at least two months of virtually no unit production at its Vietnamese factories which accounted for 51% of footwear and 30% of apparel units,” said BTIG senior analyst Camilo Lyon, in a recent note. Over the… Source link

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Supply chain issues causing ‘unprecedented’ non-recession inventory slump: JPM

The current national bout of low inventory represents an “unprecedented non-recessionary inventory collapse” for the last 20 years, a new report by JPMorgan found. “While non-manufacturing activity is now tracking a strong and steady recovery, the goods-producing sector has been buffeted by supply constraints alongside continued boomy gains in final demand,” the report noted. “The result has been a slump in inventories that, over the past two decades at least, looks to be unprecedented… Source link

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Papa John’s Epic Stuffed Crust pizza helps chain beat Wall Street sales forecast

An increase in mobility as more people get vaccinated for COVID-19 hasn’t changed much for the trajectory of Papa John’s (PZZA) business.  The pizza joint clobbered Wall Street sales and profit forecasts on Thursday, powered by demand for new Epic Stuffed Crust pizza and Papadia sandwiches. Here is how Papa John’s performed compared to Wall Street analyst forecasts for the second quarter: Adjusted Diluted EPS: $0.93 vs. $0.73 Net Sales: $515 million vs. $494.4 million Systemwide North America… Source link

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Why this big donut chain is seeing a resurgence

After seven straight quarters of same-store sales declines amid menu challenges and competitive pressures, Restaurant Brands-owned Tim Horton’s finally appears to be turning the corner. Second quarter global same-store sales for Tim Horton’s — which operates nearly 5,100 restaurants mostly in Canada and was purchased in 2014 by Restaurant Brands (QSR) for $11.4 billion — rose 27.6%. The coffee and donut chain had the best sales performance from within a Restaurant Brands portfolio that… Source link

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Investors are not pumped for Mark Wahlberg-backed fitness chain

F45 Training (FXLV), the fitness franchise backed by actor Mark Wahlberg, got a workout in its Wall Street debut on July 15. Shares of the Austin, Texas-based company rose as much as 11%, then briefly fell below the offer price of $16 a share, before closing up 1.3% to $16.20. In an interview with Yahoo Finance Live, Founder and CEO Adam Gilchrist compared F45’s IPO to that of another franchise fitness chain, Planet Fitness (PLNT). “We wanted to obviously be in a position to replicate the… Source link

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Impossible Finance Raises $7M for Binance Smart Chain DeFi Incubator

The latest decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol to get big backing from venture capitalists is Impossible Finance for a multi-chain incubator project. In an announcement on June 3, the DeFi protocol declared that it had secured $7 million from over 125 institutional and angel investors. The round was co-led by True Ventures, CMS Holdings, Alameda Research, and Hashed. The list of additional investors was extensive and included Sino Global Capital, IOSG, Divergence, GBV, Lemniscap, Primitive,… Source link

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