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Musicians are suffering too. Wedding parties no longer risk hiring live entertainers, says Ivan Shafiq, a music producer. He estimates that sales of Pashtu music cassettes have fallen by half. "Our music sells in those shops," he says. "If all retail outlets are closing down, the distributors and producers won't give contracts to make albums anymore. And these artists don't know how to do anything else...
...This is your grandmother's neighborhood, and hers is a growing demographic. Already today, more than 21% of Japan's population is aged above 65, and that number will rise to 36% by 2050. Those numbers are good news for retailers in Sugamo, where January 24 is the equivalent of America's Friday after Thanksgiving: As many as 80,000 visitors flock to the area to pay their new year's respects to a famous statue at Koganji Temple believed to cure their ills. With about 200 shops and two temples along Jizo-dori, overflowing with free food samples...
...comments Thursday on its contemplation of Société Générale, according to Mistral, increases the likelihood of a more complex acquisition scheme: the break up of Société Générale's retail network, which BNP covets, from investment banking activities, which interest Crédit Agricole. By tipping its hand, Mistral notes, BNP may be signaling to rivals now mobilizing in the wake of the debacle that it's about to launch a bid it had contemplated even before the Kerviel affair. Meanwhile, comments by French officials indicating the government...
Like many retail districts in downtown Baghdad, al-Kindy Street has lately had little to offer shoppers but a fine assortment of fear, blood and death. Shootings and regular bombings have shuttered many of al-Kindy's stores, where some of Baghdad's wealthiest residents once bought everything from eggplants to area rugs. At this time last year, al-Kindy was deteriorating into just another bombed-out corner of a city spiraling out of control...
...pulling a fair share of registered Republicans in other states, has been put over the top by independents. As national spokesman Kevin Madden puts it, "There is no refuge in the independent vote in Florida." But fortunately for Romney, there is some refuge from too much face-to-face, retail politics in the Sunshine State...