By Erin Zureick CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. sales of clothes and shoes fell in July as cash-strapped consumers cut back spending further to pay for nondiscretionary purchases such as food and gasoline, MasterCard Advisors said in a report on Wednesday. Overall July apparel...
NEW YORK -- Oil prices fell Tuesday, giving up an earlier advance as the dollar held its gains against the euro and the Energy Department slashed its oil consumption projections. Retail gasoline prices rose to a record over $4.04 a gallon. The dollar...
MasterCard Advisors' SpendingPulse, amacro-economic report tracking retail sales nationally, today providedsummary results of the 2007 Holiday shopping season. This year, for theperiod between Black Friday and December 24, retail grew by a seasonallyadjusted 3.6% over the same period in 2006. "Overall, sales came in just above the lower end...
MasterCard Advisors today announced itsSpendingPulse Mid-Season Holiday Shopping Update. The data in this specialholiday report represents comparisons of the 20 days of the shopping seasoncompared to the same period in 2006. The shopping season began on BlackFriday. "Not surprisingly, Black Friday's sales came in so strong that the pace...
U.S. gasoline demand fell last week from a year earlier as pump prices stayed above $3 a gallon, a report from MasterCard Inc. showed. Consumers purchased an average 9.3 million barrels of gasoline a day in the week ended Dec. 7, down 2.7 percent from the same...
This is the kind of advice your mother gives you, you never take, then you regret it later: Don't blow all your dough at Christmas. If you haven't started holiday shopping, you only have 17 days to go. And in the last-minute rush, you could be caught up...
PURCHASE, New York, November 8 /PRNewswire/ -- - Monthly Retail Sales Analysis to be Made Available 7 to 10 days Ahead of ONS Data MasterCard Advisors, the professional services arm of MasterCard Worldwide, today announced the launch of MasterCard...
MasterCard Advisors, the professional servicesarm of MasterCard Worldwide, today introduced its Spending Pulse U.S.Gasoline Demand Report, the first report that provides detailed informationon the total amount of gasoline the U.S. pumps each week. The Spending Pulse U.S. Gasoline Demand Report, released each Tuesday,contains industry specific information representing a weekly...
Byline: ARTHUR ZACZKIEWICZ AND VICKI M. YOUNG A bah humbug holiday sales season? Not quite. Although analysts have lowered their estimates for the holiday sales season to a gain of between 3 and 5 percent from prior forecasts of a 4 to 7 percent...
Byline: MYA FRAZIER mfrazier@crain.com Deep discounting and hefty advertising blitzes from the nation's top retailers weren't enough to persuade consumers to storm the stores this holiday season. And when they did go shopping, they didn't always...
WASHINGTON AFP — US retail spending rose modestly over the Christmas holiday season, helped by a late surge from last-minute shoppers, surveys showed. The data suggest the world's biggest economy continues to grow, but at a less than spectacular pace. A report Tuesday by MasterCard research arm SpendingPulse showed overall...
By JCK Staff Where does the U.S. jewelry industry stand right now--and what does the future hold? In the eyes of many, it stands on the threshold of change. Many long-standing beliefs about who the customer is and how jewelry...
NEW YORK -- Reuters (LSE: RTR, NASDAQ: RTRSY) today announced an agreement with MasterCard Advisors LLC, the global professional services organization of MasterCard International, to provide a U.S. retail economic service exclusively to Reuters clients. The service, known as SpendingPulseTM, provides granular measures of the U.S. retail...
For many jewelers, holiday 2005 was a merry time, but for others, it was disappointing. At press time, a JCK survey of retailers produced reports ranging from moderate to overwhelming holiday sales increases in the South and Midwest to disappointing returns in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast....
Byline: Michael Rudnick NEW YORK-Consumers have looked to the home for the holidays this year. According to some sales reports, home products have been strong drivers of holiday sales this season. SpendingPulse, an affiliate of MasterCard...
Byline: SHRUTI DATE SINGH AND JEREMY MULLMAN Sales of luxury goods led a stronger-than-expected holiday shopping season, with mass merchants forced into heavy discounting to eke out less impressive gains. Chicago-area retailers Abt Electronics & Appliances, Walter E. Smithe Furniture Inc....
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