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Staff and Wire Reports After yet another weak month, retailers are preparing to fight for their share of crucial back-to-school shopping. But they may have to keep discounting to keep consumers coming in, given escalating job uncertainty.
Japanese wholesale prices fell at the fastest ever pace last month, data showed, deepening concern that another bout of deflation could hinder a recovery in the world's number two economy.
MADISON — Five months after a federal judge declared Wiscon-sin’s 70-year-old minimum markup on gasoline unconstitutional, the law technically still is in effect.
TOKYO, July 10 — Japanese price data today showed the world's No. 2 economy was still struggling to find its feet and contrasted with encouraging US jobs figures and news from Germany that briefly lifted global stocks and commodities. Japanese wholesale prices fell a record 6.6 per cent in June from a year earlier, reinforcing fears that the economy was poised for a second, possibly damaging ...
TOKYO - The yen remained on the back foot on Friday after retreating from sharp gains earlier in the week, and the dollar held steady after a steep pullback following fewer than expected US initial jobless claims.
TOKYO - Japanese price data on Friday showed the world’s No. 2 economy was still struggling to find its feet and contrasted with encouraging US jobs figures and news from Germany that briefly lifted global stocks and commodities.
With milk prices in Vietnam up to 60% higher than in other Southeast Asian countries, market management officials have called for new pricing and advertising regulations. Retail milk prices in Vietnam, especially for imported products, have been increasing since 2007 even though the global price of powdered milk has fallen
Japan’s central bank said Friday that wholesale prices fell 6.6% in June from a year earlier, the biggest fall on record and the latest sign that deflation is returning to the country.
By Tetsushi Kajimoto
NEW YORK — After yet another weak month, retailers are preparing to fight for their share of crucial back-to-school shopping. But they may have to keep discounting to keep consumers coming in, given escalating job uncertainty.
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