Slower sales points to slowdown
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A survey of the West Midlands housing market has uncovered further evidence of an impending slowdown, including a two per cent fall in the number of properties changing hands.
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In spite of a burst of Friday spending, the holiday shopping season got off to a sluggish start, forcing retailers to reassess their strategies for luring buyers. Slow sales reported by three retail sales trackers on Tuesday were blamed on higher fuel costs and an overall lack of confidence in the economy.
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After a string of strong years, U.S.  auto sales are slowing and an increasing number of forecasts  say sales could fall next year to their lowest in nearly a  decade, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on  Monday.
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Buy high or low? The tale of sales offers some insight.
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Sales of new homes, plunging to their lowest level in more than 12 years, were weaker than forecast last month - leaving the market glutted with unsold homes and pointing to more trouble ahead for the battered housing market.
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Concern about the US housing market returns as a key survey shows sales have fallen to a near five-year low.
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WASHINGTON -- Retail sales in August posted the weakest showing in two months as worried consumers curbed their spending habits.
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Software company executives at a CIBC World Markets conference this week cited a variety of reasons for why June sales slowed, from record oil prices to steep software discounting and regulatory distractions on accounting deadlines.
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Leisure firm Whitbread has reported a slight slowdown in underlying sales growth after a strong performance at its budget hotels was held back by the impact of poor weather on its pub restaurants.
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Sales declined 15 percent from a year earlier, to $244.9 million in the period ended Oct. 31, according to the company.
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Retail sales growth in the week after Thanksgiving fell to 3.1 percent, the slowest rate in four years, as consumers delayed holiday purchases to wait for discounts.
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Businesses buying more machines as consumer growth slows
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A slowdown in automobile and financial advertising hurt the companyÂs advertising sales over the last few weeks.
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WASHINGTON -- Sales of previously owned homes in the United States fell in May to the lowest level in almost four years, reinforcing concerns about a protracted housing slump.
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U.S. shoppers have kept a tight grip  on their wallets this holiday season with indices on Tuesday  showing sluggish sales in the second week of the season.
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There was a sharp slowdown in mortgage lending last month, says the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
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The slowdown may signal that the economy is shifting down a notch from its unexpectedly robust pace of growth at the end of last year.