CHICAGO COMPANIES - Redbook: US Retail Sales -2.5% First Two Weeks Of Jan Vs Dec - FXStreet.com CHICAGO COMPANIES - Redbook: US Retail Sales -2.5% First Two Weeks Of Jan Vs Dec - FXStreet.com

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

CHICAGO COMPANIES - Redbook: US Retail Sales -2.5% First Two Weeks Of Jan Vs Dec - FXStreet.com

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--National chain store sales fell 2.5% in the first two weeks of January versus the previous month, according to Redbook Research's latest indicator of national retail sales released Wednesday. The drop in the index was compared in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street is rebounding smartly in early trading after investors got some reassurance from IBM's better-than-expected outlook for 2009. The Dow Jones industrials are up 112 points at 8,062 after plunging 332 on Tuesday. The major in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Russian oligarch and ex-KGB officer Alexander Lebedev agreed to buy a majority stake in London’s Evening Standard newspaper from Daily Mail and General Trust Plc for a “nominal sum.” The newspaper was sold to Alexander in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

The dawn of the Obama presidency could not shake the stock market from its dejection over the rapidly deteriorating state of the banking industry. Financial stocks, many of them falling by double digit percentages, led a huge drop on Wall Street in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

NEW YORK — The banking crisis took an ugly turn for the worse Tuesday. Shares of major banks plunged as investors feared that Washington's bailout efforts were stalling, potentially forcing President Barack Obama's newly installed government to in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs Retail Chain Store Sales Index increased 1.1% in the week to January 17 from its level a week before, on a seasonally-adjusted, comparable store basis. On a year-on in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

The dawn of the Obama presidency could not shake the stock market from its dejection over the rapidly deteriorating state of the banking industry. Financial stocks, many of them falling by double-digit percentages, led a huge drop on Wall Street in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

No comments: