What it gets up to in North America is not its central retail strategy.
Against this backdrop, Winmill sees people pouring into gold, from retail investors to central banks.
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But current regulations require Chinese partners to own a majority stake in retail businesses and the central government must approve all applications.
For retail financial services, Central Europe is almost virgin territory.
Instead of trying to expand into investment banking, a business with juicy margins in good times but horrible losses in bad, Erste Bank has instead concentrated on expanding its retail banking business into central and eastern Europe, where it has subsidiaries stretching from Austria to Ukraine.
His competitors for the concession, including the country's top food, retail and hotel conglomerate, Central Group, reportedly have complained about the bidding process.
Traders from rival retail hubs Bow Street Mall and Central Craigavon Ltd launched several legal proceedings opposing the 500, 000 sq ft plans.
Office, retail, and apartment space in central Moscow is an incredibly precious commodity that, if taxed and regulated properly, could be used to raise huge amounts of revenue for important and long-neglected sectors like education and health.
Central and local government, charities, employers and retail businesses all have a part to play.
Retail demand shift pales in comparison to the central bank trade.
Named after a cacao-rich region of central Venezuela, Chuao Chocolatier morphed from a single location retail outlet in 2002 into a specialty food up-and-comer in 2005, shipping 2, 000 bars per flavor every month.
This year, says Raymond Lee, managing director at Furama Tailor, several shops near him in Hong Kong's Central district were forced to shut down, thanks to retail rent hikes in Hong Kong that have averaged 60% since 2011.
Is there some reason why a retail presence straddling several countries should work better in Central than in Western Europe?
Central Bedfordshire councillors decide on Wednesday whether to approve plans for two retail parks on sites in Grovebury Road, south of the town.
At the Lancaster Central Market, Vicky Glosser works the register at an ice cream and salad retail food stand.
Stretching along a section of Canal Street in central Nottingham, the Southreef complex has a combination of offices, apartments and retail space.
For solar energy, according to the report, the near-term goal is for solar electricity to be competitive with retail electricity rates, with a long-term goal to compete with central fossil fuel power plants.
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Added to the likes of billionaire investors George Soros and John Paulson, the central banks of emerging markets including China, India, and even the oil producers, are retail investors.
When central banks make a move it is never gentle and for the time being traders, particularly at the retail level, will probably want to exercise a great deal of caution before perhaps taking the opposite side of the trade from a central bank, either one.
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China's central bank said in January that it was preparing for a trial program, called QDII2, that would allow domestic retail investors to invest overseas directly instead of through financial institutions.
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