U.S. jewelry and watch sales across all channels fell 1.7 percent year on year to $5.386 billion in March, as estimated from preliminary government figures. According to Rapaport News calculations, jewelry sales dropped 1.5 percent to ...
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Two US Senators - Kelly Ayotte and Maria Cantwell - have reintroduced a bipartisan legislation that would lower or eliminate outdated tariffs on recreational outerwear and support America's outdoor economy. On her official web page, ...
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Food retail in Australia is among the better-performing retail sectors contributing to only a modest rise is sales figures in February 2015. The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) said the seasonally adjusted rise (0.7 percent ...
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China's consumer spending posted a double-digit growth in the first quarter of 2015, despite mounting pressures the country is facing. China's retail sales rose 10.6 percent year on year in the first three months to 7.07 trillion yuan ...
UK retail sales increased by 3.2% on a like-for-like basis from March 2014, when they had decreased 1.7% on the preceding year. On a total basis, sales were up 4.7%, against a 0.3% fall in March 2014. Adjusted for the BRC-Nielsen Shop Price ...
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U.S. specialty jewelry store sales fell 5.4 percent year on year to $2.72 billion in February, according to government calculations. The sales decline was much more severe than preliminary totals for jewelry and watch sales across all ...
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Chief executive officers have less confidence in growth prospects for their businesses amid China's economic restructuring, even as most of them continued to remain bullish on the size and strength of the Chinese economy, a survey said on ...
DFS has secured a new £230m funding package from a banking syndicate led by Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking following its recent stock market listing. The funding includes a £200m term loan that will be used to repay existing ...
Global diamond jewelry demand rose 2.9 percent year on year to $81.4 billion in 2014, according to industry insight data published by De Beers on Friday. The research sets a new high for global demand, but also represents the slowest growth ...
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China's cooling growth prospects are expected to shift the economic agenda away from the eurozone, although Greece remains firmly in the spotlight because of its precarious funding outlook. China is expected to provide further hints of ...
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U.S. specialty jewelry store sales fell 4 percent year on year to $6.11 billion in December, closing the year on a downer. December's sales total was the weakest since 2011 and followed a 6.2 percent decline for stores in November; still, ...
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U.S. jewelry and watch sales across all channels closed out the year with disappointing results in December as sales fell 1.6 percent year on year to $15.245 billion, according to preliminary data. Furthermore, the government revised ...
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The Japanese economy appears to have expanded during the October-December period, marking the first growth in three quarters thanks to a long-awaited recovery in consumer spending. Real gross domestic product grew an annualized 4% last ...
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Visa Inc, the world's largest credit and debit card company, reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday due to a good holiday season and a strengthening U.S. job market that encouraged people to spend. The company said ...
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With Valentine's Day falling on a Saturday this year, U.S. retailers could see a slight bump up in consumer spending, according to a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Insights & Analytics. Nearly 55 ...
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