11/21/2008
French consumer spending slides in October (AP via Yahoo! News)
French consumer spending, the main driver of growth in the euro zone's second-largest economy, fell abruptly in October, suggesting France may yet follow its neighbors Germany and Britain into recession.
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11/22/2008
Falling consumer prices raise deflation fears (London Free Press)
OTTAWA -- Consumer prices tumbled to their steepest one-month drop in nearly half a century last month, as sharply falling energy prices raised the spectre of economy-crippling deflation in Canada.
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11/22/2008
French consumer spending declines in Oct. (People's Daily)
Consumer spending in France sharply fell in October, marking the biggest one-month decline since June, national statistics office INSEE said on Friday. The data issued by INSEE showed, as the main driver in the eurozone's second-largest economy, consumer spending dropped 0.4 percent in October after rising in the previous month. Household consumption and spending on manufactured goods were hard ...
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11/22/2008
S&P Cuts Foot Locker To 'BB-' On Weak Consumer Spending (Fox News)
S&P Cuts Foot Locker To 'BB-' On Weak Consumer Spending
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11/21/2008
Canadian Dollar Dips Against Majors After Consumer Prices Report (Nasdaq)
(RTTNews) - The loonie slipped versus the euro and greenback on Friday in New York. Traders considered a report showing Canadian consumer prices fell more than expected in October.
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11/21/2008
French October Consumer Spending Falls as Labor Market Worsens (Bloomberg)
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- French consumer spending on manufactured goods slipped the most in four months in October as companies in the euro region's second-biggest economy cut jobs to weather the global economic slowdown and credit crunch.
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11/21/2008
Cheaper gas fuels biggest drop in consumer prices in 61 years (BizJournals)
Consumer prices fell in October by the largest percentage in at least 61 years as gasoline costs plunged.
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11/21/2008
Consumer coping with hard times (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Last Tuesday, I had the pleasure of attending marketing guru Ned Roberto’s premiere presentation of his First Nationwide Consumer Coping Behavior Study to representatives of the 24 companies that sponsored the study, and other clients and guests.
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11/21/2008
Examining the importance of the Consumer Price Index (Schaeffers Research)
During the past year, the media has flash-carded the terms inflation, stagflation and now deflation, thanks to the October Consumer Price Index (CPI), in an attempt to extrapolate potential economic scenarios...( Read More )
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11/21/2008
Health Canada launches new consumer products' complaints protocol (Regina Leader-Post)
Health Canada has revamped the way it handles consumer complaints about potentially fatal products and stepped up its demands of companies that distribute them after a complaint about a near-miss incident involving a baby bassinet sat "in limbo" for six weeks this summer.
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