Word: retail
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...Retail sales unexpectedly plunged 0.9% in June, marking the largest drop in nearly two years, according to the Department of Commerce. Here is where consumers...
...three mainstay funds--Stock, Income and Balanced--all beat more than 95% of similarly invested funds over the past 10 years, according to investment tracker Morningstar. The International Stock fund has sported a similar track record over its shorter lifetime and is one of the 10 hottest-selling retail funds in any category; over the past 18 months, assets have more than tripled, to $45 billion...
...ignoring this bigger, stronger breed of freebie, but there's also no reason it has to signal the death of the music industry. Thanks to the rise of digital distribution, the business of making and selling music has been in flux for years, with labels, lawyers and retailers constantly forced to adapt. "In the record industry, you can barely hear yourself think for the sound of the business being dismantled and the paradigms being broken," says Conor McNicholas, editor of music weekly the New Musical Express. Those who can't keep up are flailing - last month, HMV reported its annual...
While it is difficult to determine how the public space in the science complex will be employed, Harvard plans to conduct a study to see what sort of retail activity will benefit the community the most, according to Gerald Autler, the senior project manager...
...have plastic rarely use it to buy much. Less than 50% report using it to purchase anything, and most who do spend less than $1,000 a year, an amount many Westerners can blow through in a week. China's is still largely a culture of savings. Retail sales grew about 12% last year to $800 billion, but studies show that households generally sock away a quarter of their total income, and spend almost the same proportion on food. It may be hard to believe after a day shopping in Shenzhen, but despite having the world's largest population, China...