Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 10, 2012
(Reuters) – Tiffany & Co sales over the holiday season weakened markedly in the United States and Europe, prompting the upscale jeweler to lower its full-year profit forecast and sending its shares down more than 10 percent in early trading.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on December 27, 2011
(Reuters) – Sears Holdings Corp will close up to 120 stores in its Kmart and namesake chains, blaming poor sales of consumer electronics so far this holiday season and saying it would focus its energy on its better performing stores.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 24, 2011
(Reuters) – The holiday shopping season starts in earnest on Thursday, with retailers anxious to see if U.S. consumers are willing to spend despite an endless stream of scary headlines about the fragile economy and their own precarious finances.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on October 11, 2011
Tokyo (Reuters) – Sony Corp sees little cheer in the normally robust year-end shopping season amid global consumer gloom and has few options to cope with the euro’s tumble against the yen, a senior official said.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on August 15, 2011
FRANKFURT, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Video games publisher Electronic Arts (EA) is upbeat about Christmas holiday sales as it expects to release top titles and prepares its most high profile launch ever: “Star Wars: The Old Republic”.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on December 30, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A blizzard in the Northeast this weekend postponed about $1 billion in holiday retail sales by keeping shoppers out of stores in the days after Christmas, research firm…
Posted by Reuters: Business News on December 29, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A blizzard in the U.S. Northeast this weekend postponed about $1 billion in holiday retail sales by keeping shoppers out of stores in the days after Christmas, research firm…
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – New sales data confirm that retailers are poised to show their best holiday season in three years, but investors seemed unimpressed as concerns mount that shoppers will pull back…
Posted by Reuters: Business News on December 28, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. retail sales rose in the week before Christmas as shoppers hurried to finish their gift-buying, putting holiday sales on track to hit the high end of estimates, according to…
Posted by Reuters: Business News on December 8, 2010
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Major U.S. airlines on Wednesday said revenues were still improving, but discount carrier JetBlue Airways pointed to weaker-than-expected holiday sales, sending its shares down…
