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Congress party leaders, from left to right, Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi and Pranab Mukherjee sit for the Congress Working Committee meeting in New Delhi,
(photo: AP / Gurinder Osan)
Retail players seek industry status, unrestricted FDI
The Times Of India
|               Text: NEW DELHI: The retail companies are hoping that the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee would accord industry status to the sector and allow unrestricted foreign direct investment inflow. | "There should be less restrictions on the retail s...
German Euro notes and coins pictured in the regional central bank in Bremen, northwest Germany, Friday, Dec. 14, 2001.
(photo: AP / Joerg Sarbach)
Euro zone retail sales decline
Irish Times
| Euro zone retail sales fell further than expected in May, data showed today, dampening hopes that an improvement in consumer spending might ease the recession. | Retail sales in the 16-country currency area fell 0.4 per cent month-on-month, the European Union statistics office said, worse than the...
As retailers cut back cities confront 'ghostboxes'
The Examiner
Comments BISMARCK, N.D. (Map, News) - Hundreds of anxious shoppers watched as city officials used power saws to cut 2-by-4s during Home Depot Inc.'s ribbon-cutting ceremony for its 102,700-square-foot building center in Bismarck. Less than three year...
As retailers cut back cities confront 'ghostboxes'
The Tribune San Luis Obispo
| Hundreds of anxious shoppers watched as city officials used power saws to cut 2-by-4s during Home Depot Inc.'s ribbon-cutting ceremony for its 102,700-square-foot building center in Bismarck. Less than three years later, the home improvement retail...
Retail players seek industry status, unrestricted FDI
The Times Of India
|               Text: NEW DELHI: The retail companies are hoping that the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee would accord industry status to the sector and allow unrestricted foreign direct investment inflow. | ...
R.I. advises Web retailers of tax
The Providence Journal
| PROVIDENCE - The Rhode Island Division of Taxation has issued notices to more than 100 online retailers, the latest salvo in a growing national battle over collection of state sales tax. | The agency issued the notices to advise the retailers about...
Crude Oil - Gasoline
WN / Sweet Radoc
Retail gas rises for 49th straight day
The Examiner
Comments SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Map, News) - Retail gas prices rose for the 49th straight day Tuesday even though crude fell yet again. | The national average price for a gallon of reg...
SM supermarket manila philippines, SM group investment, Sta meza branch, June, 6, 2009
WN / james
SMIC raises P10B from local retail bonds
Inquirer
| MANILA, Philippines--Retail tycoon Henry Sy's SM Investments Corp. has completed a P10-billion fund-raising via a successful local retail bond debut, the first by any company wit...
China - Cars - Industry
WN / abeer
China's retail sales, industrial output up
Daily Star Lebanon
| Data 'confirms the effectiveness so far of the Chinese authorities' stimulus efforts' | Saturday, June 13, 2009 | - Powered by | Joe McDonald | Associated Press | BEIJING: China'...
Amazon and other Web retailers escalate fight over sales taxes, with affiliates in crossfire
Hartford Courant
NEW YORK (AP) — In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence. | Increasingly, states aching under the weight of the recession are ...
Retailers cut 21,000 jobs in June
The Tribune San Luis Obispo
| Retail job cuts moderated in June, when U.S. merchants trimmed 21,000 as they kept shuttering stores, but weakness in the overall job market looms over retailers, who need consumers to spend more freely. | June was the 17th straight month that reta...
Retail job cuts moderate, with 21,000 in June, but conditions may worsen for the industry
Hartford Courant
NEW YORK (AP) — Retail job cuts moderated in June, when U.S. merchants trimmed 21,000 as they kept shuttering stores, but weakness in the overall job market looms over retailers, who need consumers to spend more freely. | June was the 17th stra...
Consumers
Customers shop at a supermarket in Chicago Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Consumer confidence fell for the fourth straight month because of heightened concerns about soaring inflation and the weakening job market. Wall Street is also worried that accelerating inflation could curtail consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of the U.S. econom
(photo: AP / Charles Rex Arbogast)
Goods prices fall at record pace in Germany-study
The Guardian
BERLIN, July 5 (Reuters) - Prices for everyday goods are falling at a record pace in Germany, according to a study by inflation specialists at Switzerland's Fribourg University. The cost of goods like milk, butter, fruit and fuel cost three percent less now than a year earlier, the study showed. "In Germany prices are collapsing across the board - ...
Investments
SM supermarket manila philippines, SM group investment, Sta meza branch, June, 6, 2009
(photo: WN / james)
SMIC raises P10B from local retail bonds
Inquirer
| MANILA, Philippines--Retail tycoon Henry Sy's SM Investments Corp. has completed a P10-billion fund-raising via a successful local retail bond debut, the first by any company within the SM group. | In a press release on Monday, SMIC announced it had upsized its retail bond issue from the initial issue size of P5 billion due to strong demand from ...



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