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Retail Sales Rise in Germany and France, Decline in Italy

MishTalk

Advertisers. Retail Sales Rise in Germany and France, Decline in Italy; Margin Squeeze in Germany and France. Italy: Sharpest drop in retail sales since April. In Italy, Markit reports Sharpest drop in retail sales since April. Rate of decline in retail sales accelerates for second straight month. Global Economic.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: European Car Sales.

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Advertisers. European Car Sales Plunge to 20-Year low. Amidst all the happy talk that Europe is on the verge of some sort of recovery, here is yet another counterpoint: European Car Sales Plunge to 20-Year Low. in June, bringing total sales for the first six months of the year to just 6.44 Global Economic. Trend Analysis.

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Mortgage REITs Clobbered as Leverage Forces Sales

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Advertisers. Mortgage REITs Clobbered as Leverage Forces Sales. REITs Deepening Bond Losses as Leverage Forces Sales. Bloomberg reports REITs Deepening Bond Losses as Leverage Forces Sales. Mortgage REITs Clobbered as Leverage Forces Sales. Global Economic. Trend Analysis. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts. Urban Digs.

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Big Miss in Retail Sales vs. Expectations; Trend Change or Another

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Advertisers. Big Miss in Retail Sales vs. Expectations; Trend Change or Another "Soft Patch"? Retail sales were up 0.4% May retail sales were revised lower, to +0.5% Here are some retail sales comments from Bloomberg to help put things into perspective. percent in June, the most since February 2008.

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A framework for understanding technology companies

Tom Spencer

The technology industry is booming: in 2008, Microsoft was the only tech firm ranked in the world’s top 10 public companies by market capitalisation. Alphabet and Facebook, for example, actively curate the content their users see, and carefully optimise advertising placements beside that content. Aggregators selling advertising.

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Magazine Ad Revenues Plunge; Google Collects Half of Mobile

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Advertisers. Is the advertising pie growing, shrinking, or simply being redistributed? In a difficult advertising environment for the magazine industry overall, newly-released numbers from the Association of Magazine Media (MPA) show the nation’s news magazines being hit particularly hard. Global Economic. Trend Analysis.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Economic Recovery in.

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Advertisers. Tax Collections, Retail Sales Prove Otherwise. Spains Retail Sales Decline 36th Month. Reuters reports Spains retail sales slump stretches to three years, hampering recovery. Calendar-adjusted retail sales fell 5.1 Tax Collections, Retail Sales Prove Otherwise. Global Economic. Trend Analysis.