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Shoppers Cool on Yule? Europe's Christmas shopping season may be a bit less than merry this year. The overall economic outlook is suddenly taking a turn for the worse, as the rising euro chokes growth, and business and consumer confidence across the Continent is weaker than was expected even two months ago. Retailers in Britain are bracing for the worst December in a decade, according to a survey released last week by the Confederation of British Industry; just 12% said they expect sales to be good. In France, shopper sentiment has also slid sharply since September. Some countries' consumers...
...Those who think that Euro Disney can be turned around and run a profit should stop deluding themselves...
Where did you get your outfit? My shoes are Steve Madden, jeans are Express, shirt from Caché, jacket from Euro Moda and bag from ITW by Claude Brown...
...size of your tallest building, a contest in which Taiwan has just nosed ahead of Malaysia. Or you can dwell on the relative strength of your currency. Which is why you might expect American self-esteem to be in decline, for the dollar has fallen 24% against the euro since the beginning of 2003, touching a record low last week, and 15% against the Japanese yen. But the U.S. economy being a strange beast, few Americans have felt any impact from the dollar's fall...
...reported that Irish immigrants to the U.S. who had decided to return home were discovering that their dollar savings didn't go far. The cash that you get from selling a house in Woodlawn in the Bronx won't buy you much of anything in boomtown Dublin, where the euro rules...