Consumer Finance Figures

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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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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More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving

By NAFEESA SYEED Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club. In the...

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How to Tell Whether You Are Saving Enough (U.S. News & World Report)

U.S. News & World Report - Save or spend? That will be the question that bedevils consumers over the next several years as they replenish their rainy-day funds, rebalance their debt, and limp toward retirement.

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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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Holiday Season Make Or Break For Consumer (And Stocks) (at The Wall Street Journal Online)

By Donna Kardos Yesalavich Either expectations for consumer spending during the crucial holiday season have gotten too high, or consumer companies are being overly conservative in forecasting the fourth quarter to prompt a...

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Week Ahead: Data, Not Earnings, Ahead of Thanksgiving (at Fox Business)

Economic data will take precedence over earnings next week. Home sales, gross domestic product, and personal income and spending will all be released early next week ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Economists predict reports...

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As interest rates fall back near zero, there aren't many happy returns

NEW YORK - The United States is finally becoming a country of savers. Now if only we could get something for our money. Interest rates are sinking to near zero for the first time since last year's ...

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