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| Sector Snap: Retail brokerages trade mixed (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Shares of retail brokerages were mixed Friday as concerns about the ongoing credit crisis continued to plague Wall Street. |
| GRINCH STRIKES RETAIL! (New York Post) Cue the Grinch - the news just keeps on getting worse and worse for retailers. The 20 percent slide in the Dow Jones industrial average this month - which erased more than $8.4 trillion in wealth from consumers' wallets - now has retail watchers... |
| Washington 2Q retail sales and trade down (KING5 Seattle) Retail sales in Washington state fell in the second quarter of 2008 compared to last year, but the state is putting a positive spin on it, saying sales are still up from 2006. |
| New Zealand Retail Sales on Tap - Will Improved Spending Help the Kiwi? (Daily FX via Yahoo! Finance) Retail spending in New Zealand has certainly weakened throughout the first half of the year, and conditions may only get worse as the economy slipped into a recession for the first time since 1998. |
| Metro Cash & Carry gets licence to do business, cannot touch retail (IE via Yahoo! India News) With Nano having set back West Bengal's industrialisation by a few paces, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee got some reprieve on Friday when his so-far stubborn colleagues in the Forward Bloc issued a fresh trade licence to German wholesale major Metro Cash & Carry to continue business in the state. |
