Consumer Confidence & Spending Figures

Retailers doubt holiday shoppers ready to spend again

By Steve Raabe The Denver Post Michael and Andrea Glass get in some early holiday shopping Thursday at Cherry Creek Shopping Center. (John Leyba, The Denver Post ) Christmas arrived early this year for shoppers enjoying another...

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Taxes aren't the solution

If this is what a recovery feels like, you can be excused for wondering how it’s different from a recession. Consumer spending, which fuels so much of the economy, remains anemic. Sales tax collections have taken a huge hit,...

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Caution keyword for businesses going into new year

If Florida's economic recovery remains tepid through 2010, as most experts predict, what's the best strategy for Pensacola Bay Area businesses going into the first quarter of next year? "We're seeing a lot of caution among...

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The Great Stimulus Debate of ‘09

"Crybabies need not apply" Barack Obama has decided to push the economy back into recession, and no one can figure out why. Perhaps the impressionable Obama has come under the spell of the deficit hawks and crystal gazers who...

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Merry Christmas for the retail sector

CHI TRANTER November 22, 2009 - 12:29PM AAP It will be a happy Christmas for the retail sector with consumer confidence boosting sales, Harvey Norman chairman Gerry Harvey says. "Our sales this year are going to be an absolute...

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Weekly FX roundup: Dollar pushes back

The Greenback ended the week up against all major currencies except the Yen. Sentiments were positive in the beginning of the week, as indices rose to 13-months high, but things started to change towards the end of the week as...

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Gold demand rises despite record prices in Q3

Outlook for investment positive Average prices for Q3 up 10 % MUMBAI: India’s appetite for gold continued strong despite high prices in the third quarter of 2009. According to ‘Gold demand trend’, a report released by the World...

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Americans save more but earn less as rates fall

Chart shows the yield on the three-month T-bill By STEVENSON JACOBS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Interest rates are sinking to near zero for the first time since last year's financial meltdown, dampening spending as...

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(AHN) Canadian Retailers To Offer Large Holiday Discounts To Counter Weak Consumer Confidence

AHN Staff Toronto, Ontario (AHN) - With barely a month to the holidays and sales in malls and department stores still slow, Canadian retailers will offer large discounts to counter the weak consumer confidence. Wal-Mart Canada...

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Thai economic growth to be led by exports once again

THAILAND'S economic recovery next year will likely be export-driven, rather than consumer-driven as earlier expected - thanks to the recovering US, European and Japanese economies following the 2008 Lehman Brothers crisis.

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