Francesca Fontana
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2,691 appearances
52 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2017
last heard Feb 2025
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There are installment payment options offered by firms like Affirm and Klarna, so you can split your shopping bill into multiple payments over time.
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On Monday, Apple's website said that the company isn't offering new Pay Later loans, marking an end to this relatively new service.
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Like Apple Pay,
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The loans were part of the company's push to use finance to deepen its relationship with consumers, beyond, obviously, the bread and butter of its iPhone and Mac ecosystems.
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We're also seeing a bit of a trend here, since Apple also pulled the plug on its credit card partnership with Goldman Sachs last year.
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So how did investors react?
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Well, Apple shares lost more than 1% Tuesday, and the stock kept moving lower the rest of the week.
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Let's circle back to NVIDIA, which loyal listeners of What's News will have heard about earlier this week.
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If you missed it, I'll catch you up.
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NVIDIA ended Tuesday with a 3.5% gain.
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Now, that might not sound like a huge leap, but it was enough for the chipmaker-slash-artificial-intelligence darling to close ahead of tech giant-slash-AI arms race competitor Microsoft as the most valuable public U.S.
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company for the first time.
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In plain English, NVIDIA became the biggest company in the world.
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The next day, like I said earlier, markets were closed.
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So Thursday was the day to watch, to see whether NVIDIA would stay at the top of the market cap leaderboard.
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Apparently, it wouldn't.
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NVIDIA shares lost about 3.5%, and Microsoft took back the crown.
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On Friday, NVIDIA shares fell even lower, so Microsoft is still on top.
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For now.
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Even beyond NVIDIA, Thursday was a bit of a down day for stocks.
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