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Fitch Ratings maintains negative outlook on retail sector
Livemint
Mumbai: India Ratings, a Fitch Group company, maintained its negative rating on the country's retail sector and said this was unlikely to improve during the year, despite the government easing norms on foreign direct investment (FDI) in the sector.
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US retail sales point to firmer consumer spending
Livemint
Washington: US retail sales rose solidly in December as Americans shrugged off the threat of higher taxes and bought automobiles and a range of other goods, suggesting momentum in consumer spending as the year ended. Other data on Tuesday showed ...
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Axis Bank's retail focus is paying off
Livemint
Higher retail loan growth also aided fee income growth, which was up by 15% over the year-ago period. But other income (fee income, trading and miscellaneous income) played a muted role in this quarter, growing by 13% compared with 29% growth in the ...
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Yes Bank in talks to buy RBS India's retail, commercial banking units
Firstpost
Mumbai: Mid-sized lender Yes Bank is in talks to buy the local retail and commercial banking operations of Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) , a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday. A plan by RBS, majority owned by the UK ...
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Remember That Time When They Said Christmas Retail Sales Only Grew At 0.7 ...
Business Insider
U.S. holiday retail sales this year grew at the weakest pace since 2008, when the nation was in a deep recession. In 2012, the shopping season was disrupted by bad weather and consumers' rising uncertainty about the economy. A report that tracks ...
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Intel, Dell, SAP Announce New Retail Services At Annual Showcase
International Business Times
Dell, meanwhile, introduced its Cloud Client Computing for Retail package which will tap Dell products and services for complete retail services. The Round Rock, Tex., computer company said the package includes its PowerEdge servers, PowerVault storage ...
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The Morning Briefing: Digital vs. physical retail
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
As Jessops goes into administration, we witness yet another familiar retailer who was not immune to the high street's economic woes. 2.) HMV prepares to call in administrators. Music and film retailer HMV is preparing to call in the administrators as ...
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IndusInd, YES Bank To Acquire Retail Assets Of RBS
DealCurry
The move is in line with YES Bank's strategy to expand its retail banking business aggressively. The bank recently roped in Pralay Mondal from HDFC Bank to oversee its retail banking operations. Last November, RBS failed to close a deal involving sale ...
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How We Know That Retail Investors Are Beginning To Freak Out About Apple
Business Insider
Some Apple fanboys are arguing that this is all the result of misinformation and stock manipulation, but whatever, retail folks are freaking. How do we know? Because yesterday we put up a post about Apple's stock falling, and we got something we've ...
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Stocks open lower on modest retail spending report
Salon
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street after the government reported that retail spending rose only modestly between November and December, a critical period for stores. The Commerce Department said retail sales rose 0.5 percent in ...
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Ambitious Baby Talk: Chinese Retail Giant Suning Aims To Double Its Infant Sales
Forbes
Suning Appliances, China's largest electrical appliance chain, said yesterday it aims this year to nearly double the sales of its recently acquired infant and maternity Redbaby brand to 3.0 billion yuan, or $492 million, from 1.6 billion yuan in 2012 ...
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Holiday retail sales increase 3%, but fall short
MarketWatch
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Holiday retail sales rose 3% to $579.8 billion, falling short of the estimate of 4.1%, according to the National Retail Federation. "Solid consumer spending in the month of December helped retailers finish the year with a ...
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British retail giant HMV faces the music
FRANCE 24
Shoppers pass a branch of retailer HMV in central London on December 17, 2012. For generations of British music fans, HMV stores were the perfect place to while away a Saturday afternoon -- but now the group has followed rivals into administration as ...
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Radio Update: Stocks fall as retail sales rise
MarketWatch
Just add items to create a portfolio now: Add. Create Portfolio or Cancel Already have a portfolio? Log In. Wall Street is struggling early even as December retail sales rose better than expected. And General Motors puts Chevy Volt technology into the ...
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Retail Sales Solid...For Now - Real Time Insight
NASDAQ
Retail sales for the month of December rose +0.5% from the previous month. Excluding autos, sales were up +0.3% month-over-month and +4.1% from December 2011. This was generally in-line with expectations. It's important to note that monthly retail ...
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STRATACACHE intros Retail Cache for faster in-store browsing at NRF BIG show
Retail Customer Experience
STRATACACHE, a provider of scalable, high-performance digital signage, content distribution and enterprise video acceleration technologies, is exhibiting its latest Web caching solution — Retail Cache — in-store digital signage tablet at the National ...
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US Retail Sales defy looming fiscal cliff – Capital Economics
NASDAQ
FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - Paul Ashworth, Chief US Economist at Capital Economics notes that the apparent strength of US retail sales growth over the final few months of last year suggests that the looming fiscal cliff, including the risk of higher ...
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Retail Sales Rise in US to Close 2012 on Upbeat Note: Economy
Bloomberg
Retail sales rose more than forecast in December to end 2012 on a positive note, indicating Americans may be able to rise above Washington's budget rancor to keep contributing to economic growth. Purchases climbed 0.5 percent, the biggest gain in three ...
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Bloomberg
Poor sales send JSE retailers index down 3.79%
BDlive
Retail shares have had a stellar run over the past year as the seemingly insatiable appetite of foreign investors in search of higher yield continued to drive valuation — boosted by the hype over the rest of Africa's growth prospects. However, the ...
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ShopKeep thinks smaller tablets can work in retail; launches iPad mini POS ...
TabTimes
ShopKeep has been demoing the new iPad mini register at the National Retail Convention and Expo (NRF) in New York this week, but hasn't been the only vendor to promote the iPad as a business tool at the event. Kronos used the exhibition to announce an ...
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