Now Experian Hitwise is reporting a significant drop-off in Groupon traffic this summer, nearly 50% since its peak in the second week of June 2011 compared to last week.
Compared to last week's report, this probably shows that consumers who actually buy e-readers don't really care about the touch feature, whereas those on the outer circle are mainly waiting for more -- and no doubt cheaper -- touchscreen e-readers.
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Morrisons said sales of its 1.5kg (3.5lb) bags of cooking salt have increased by almost 400% compared to the beginning of last week.
In last night's vote, 39 of the 186 crossbenchers turned out - compared to 68 in the first of last week's government defeats.
Major retailers reported a 2.2% rise in sales last week compared with the same period last year, according to the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and UBS Warburg.
We endured a little discomfort last week, but compared to the massiveness of the storm in other areas, we came out almost unscarred.
This would be flat growth when compared to last year but adjusting for the extra week in 2011 the growth rate would be 8%.
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Pulis cited the example of Delap's sending off last week and compared it to a similar incident involving Steven Gerrard in Liverpool's game against Chelsea.
To be honest, CeBIT is a fairly sleepy tech show, especially compared to Mobile World Congress, which just wrapped last week.
Core IPCA inflation is expected to end the year at 6% compared to economists expectations of 5.88% last week and 5.8% last month.
Tesco said sales of its booster seats - which are suitable for bigger children - were up 1, 000% this week, compared to the same time last year.
Initial jobless claims dropped by 5, 000 last week to 348, 000, compared with expectations for a 4, 000 rise.
The economy of China, a key commodity consumer, is also slowing but nevertheless remains robust compared to the rest of the world, with the government last week reporting 7.6% growth in the second quarter.
The situation has become more controlled in the last couple of days compared with last week, O'Keefe said, when the line to see triage medical personnel sometimes stretched to 100 people.
Despite a lingering economic downturn in much of Europe and North America, CO2 levels climbed to 394.97 parts per million (PPM) last week, marking an increase of nearly 1.6 ppm compared to last year and the highest level on record.
For instance, Pope notes only 14% was shaved off Portuguese bonds in the testing process even though two-year notes from Portugal have widened to trade at a spread of 242 basis points over the German equivalent security compared to 226 basis points last Friday, a 7% gain in the spread in just a week.
Girls were more likely to smoke than boys - 9% of girls had smoked in the last week compared with 6% of boys.
Coal imports rose 57% in May compared to last year, their highest level since January 2011, the General Administration of Customs reported this week.
In related news, last week McDonald's reported a 10.4% gain in monthly sales compared to a year earlier, its biggest single-month increase in more than five years.
ValuEngine rates Wintrust a HOLD so buying this name is not as compelling compared to Umpqua Holdings ( UMPQ) and Whitney Holdings ( WTNY), both of which I profiled last week.
He also claimed the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald "had its pressures" and, on Monday of that week, it had experienced a 50% increase in admissions compared to the same time last year.
After a 10% plunge last week, the shares are off 40% from last Spring, a big underperformance compared to other BDCs.
Based upon WD and Seagate discussions in their quarterly conference calls last week calendar Q4 2011 will probably see a short fall of 20-40 million HDDs compared to demand of 170-175 million drives total.
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According to CoinNews.net sales of gold bullion coins rose a whopping 39.6 percent last week, compared with the previous week, while American Silver Eagles saw a 10.8% increase.
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