... Reuters UL], the employee owned retail group, reported a 17 percent rise in weekly department store sales , with consumers starting serious Christmas shopping … and more » See the original post: John Lewis weekly sales see pre-Christmas surge - Reuters Technorati Tags: Christmas, consolidation, hollywood-reporter, img-alt, lewis, mtv, ...

... , Week 16 Major Position Changes To see historic weekly fund changes click here OR the label at the bottom of ... now traditional beating of the dollar on Monday which allowed a surge of buying... the majority of the rest of the week was marked by ... !  (hint: not once have they ever been disappointed!) Much like home sales always surge in spring and summer we'll be told great tales ...

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Commodity news Most front contracts in the commodities segment are down this morning. Oil is little changed on the weekly EIA stocks report but gold continues to trade above USD1,090. EUR/USD is slightly weaker after having risen somewhat following a relatively dovish tone in the FOMC statement.  The weekly EIA inventory report saw draws in crude, gasoline and distillate stocks alike in the ...

... the low-40s right track/mid-50s wrong track since early in the summer. After a swift surge of optimism immediately following the Presidential inauguration, those numbers sagged a bit, and then ... by a five point margin (35-30), but that is the closest they have been since they had their late summer surge in the polls at the tail end of August and the first week of September. On that generic ...

... footing after the deep economic recession, and the base-effect impact from last year's surge in commodity prices virtually washed out of the CPI data, we expect the U.S. economy to ... of the boost in activity should come from the automotive industry, given the whopping 15.8% M/M surge in auto exports during the month, while sales of machinery and equipment should also add favourably to the bottom ...