Also, businesses suffer from the fees Visa and Mastercard charge merchants on customer payments; those have climbed steadily as well because the two dominant processors use a variety of techniques to keep their grip on that market.
—
Carter Dougherty,
Mercury News,
7 Feb. 2026
With its fertile soil and strategic location, the Sultanate of Johor drew immigrants from all over Asia—merchants, miners, farmworkers.
For mean reversion traders, this post-volatility environment is a goldmine.
—
Nishant Pant,
CNBC,
10 Feb. 2026
To put it in perspective, $2 trillion was wiped off the market cap of software companies last week, which traders thought might be decimated by AI companies replacing them.
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