Despite the hoopla, wearable gadgets like wristwatches for checking your text messages or eyeglasses that capture video are unlikely to make a splash with consumers anytime soon, given the clumsy designs, high prices and technological ...
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U.S. employers added a scant 74,000 jobs in December, the fewest in three years. The disappointing gain ends 2013 on a weak note and could raise questions about the economy's recent strength. The Labor Department says the unemployment ...
Macy's, Inc. announced that its comparable sales, together with comparable sales from departments licensed to third parties, rose 4.3 percent in the 2013 holiday shopping season the months of November and December combined compared with the ...
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ShopperTrak estimated that, during the holiday shopping season of November and December 2013, national retail sales increased 2.7 percent although foot traffic decreased 14.6 percent when compared to the same two months last year. The ...
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Pessimists are fond of saying that no good deed goes unpunished. An Australian teenager who reported a security vulnerability in a government website and now faces legal troubles probably agrees. Joshua Rogers, a 16-year-old Victoria ...
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Macy's announced late Wednesday record holiday sales while simultaneously cutting 2,500 jobs and detailing plans to close five stores. As reported in Retailing Today, the nation's leading department store retailer late Wednesday issued ...
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Despite the short holiday season, December was still the biggest shopping month of the year. ShopperTrak reports that shoppers visited more stores in December 2013 than they did in any other month of the year. Despite retailers' best ...
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Japan's real gross domestic product for November rose a seasonally adjusted 0.1% from October, marking the fourth straight monthly rise, according to an estimate released Dec. 27 by the Japan Center for Economic Research. Personal ...
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Anticipation of higher earnings in fiscal 2014 is buoying Japanese electronics stocks, with Hitachi, Panasonic, and many others outstripping their own 2013 market performance in the new year. On Wednesday, 178 issues on the Tokyo Stock ...
Europe enjoyed a sixth consecutive month of chip market growth in a global market driven upwards by strong sales in the America's region, according to data from the Semiconductor Industry Association. The three-month average for global ...
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The Cato Corporation reported sales for the five weeks ended January 4, 2014 of $100.1 million, a 3% decrease from sales of $103.3 million for the five weeks ended December 29, 2012. Same-store sales for the month decreased 4%. Sales for ...
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Images of the new-generation Subaru WRX STI have leaked online, revealing the exterior styling of the heavily hyped sports car. Not due to be officially unveiled until next week’s Detroit auto show, the images – which appeared ...
The Lexus RC F will become the most powerful V8 sports car in the Japanese car maker’s history when it makes its official world premiere at next week’s Detroit auto show. Lexus uncovered its dramatically styled RC F ...
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The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell to the lowest level in a month for the week ended Jan. 4, the Labor Department reported. Claims fell 15,000 to 330,000, lower than the 335,000 average estimate from economists ...
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Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News The Department of Transportation's freight transportation services index rose to record high in November, DOT said Jan. 9. The freight TSI increased 1.2% from October to an all-time high of 116.5, DOT's ...
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