China falls for Christmas -- at least in its stores
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China's shopping malls in late December leave little doubt that the country has been smitten by Christmas, if not in quite the way devout Christians might hope.
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U.S. retailers posted weak sales growth in December, as snow storms, discounts and economic uncertainty conspired to make the 2007 holiday shopping season the worst in 5 years.
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WAL-MART, the worldâs largest retailer, has cut its sales forecast, in the run-up to Christmas, by more than half after suffering a fall in the number of shoppers passing through its doors
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Stores report long queues as shoppers hunt post-Christmas bargains
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One less festive sign of the holiday season is the magnification of losses in some of the worst-performing stocks.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Just when it seemed erosion of music sales during the holiday season couldn't get worse, December snowstorms compounded the retail industry's misery.
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China's multibillion-dollar trade surplus narrowed in December for a second straight month, suggesting measures meant to slow its rapid growth might be taking effect, according to government data released Friday.
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NEW YORK Dec 12, 2004 - With less than two weeks of shopping left until Christmas, the nation&#39;s malls and stores stepped up discounts over the weekend, but business appeared to be mixed, according to analysts.
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Analysts have offered their latest judgment of the Christmas shopping season: good, but not great, although online sales set records.
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Boxing Day figures reveal poor sales, but bargain hunters are expected to turn out in force for post-Christmas shopping
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CHENZHOU, China  - The thunder of firecrackers ushered in the Year of the Rat on Thursday, but millions of Chinese were spending a cold holiday as repair teams battled to restore power knocked out by the worst snow storms in a century.
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Gift cards were hot; department stores were not. The pricier the goods, the better they sold. American Eagle Outfitters was the store to shop; Aeropostale was so 2003. And for stores with all the wrong stuff, not even huge discounts saved Christmas.
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Europe's retailers showed tentative signs on Wednesday of having overcome bleak expectations for consumer spending in the run-up to Christmas, even as high street retail stocks in the US tumbled on the back of disappointing performance.
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BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - On a wintery lunchbreak before Lunar New Year, Beijingers in puffy jackets lean over glass cases of gleaming rat figurines and Olympics trinkets at the city's largest gold store.
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Higher costs in China could spell the end of an era of ultra-cheap goods, as well as the beginning of Chinaâs rise from the lowest rungs of global manufacturing.
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British retailers have suffered their worst Christmas in 10 years. Were you cautious with your spending over the festive season?
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NEW YORK -- An already weak holiday shopping season turned out to be even worse than expected for many of the nation's retailers, who reported Thursday they had disappointing sales results for December. The poor performance raised more concerns about consumer spending, and in turn, the health of the...