U.S. Consumers Who Use American Express
U.S. consumers who use American Express as their primary credit card spend an average of $1,687 a month on the card. That’s more than twice as much as those using Visa, Discover, or Master Card, who spend $843, $737, and $639 per month, respectively.
Farmers, sales professionals, and educators are the most likely to marry someone in a similar line of work, according to an analysis of census data on 40 million American couples. Miners, maintenance workers, and construction workers are the least likely.
From 2012 to 2015, the number of Hispanic-owned businesses grew at an annual rate of 7.5 percent, 15 times faster than the growth rate for U.S. businesses generally.
Streaming-music revenues have overtaken physical sales of CDs and records for the first time, totaling just over $1 billion for the first half of 2015. Streaming is expected to surpass digital downloads next year as the music industry’s biggest source of revenue.
Groupon will cut 1,100 jobs, about 9 percent of its workforce, and close operations in six countries over the next year, in the latest sign of the decline of daily-deals sites. The company’s stock has fallen 80 percent since November 2011, when it went public in what was then the biggest tech IPO since Google’s.
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