Elsewhere in Russia the new holiday was a low-key affair, devoid of parades or fly-pasts, our correspondent reports.
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Prices tend to rise into year-end due to a number of gift-giving holidays around the world, starting with the so-called wedding season in India and continuing through to the Chinese New Year holiday early in the following year.
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In addition, the Lunar New Year holiday, which essentially shut down the country for a week in January, was a temporary brake on demand.
Same-store sales in the United States were flat in the holiday season, suggesting that the new turnaround efforts by CEO Hubert Joly are working some.
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However, health officials said the reduction in GP consulting hours during the New Year Bank Holiday may have affected last week's clinical consultation rate.
From the 1930s onwards Jews living in New York started to holiday in the hundreds of rooming houses and hotels that sprouted in the nearby Catskill mountains.
In its recent presentation to advertisers in New York, UP also announced seven new movies that include the holiday titles "Guess Who's Coming to Christmas, " starring Drew Lachey, and "Silver Bells, " with Bruce Boxleitner.
Looking ahead, the company expects to see margins contract further in the next quarter as it looks to launch a number of lower margin new products ahead of the holiday season in what is going to be the broadest product refresh cycle in its history.
Surface will be available for purchase beginning Oct. 26, 2012, at all Microsoft Store locations in the United States and Canada, including in all 34 new holiday stores.
It was also lower than the 10.3% recorded in December and the 10% recorded in the fourth, suggesting there may be some destocking due to the Chinese New Year holiday.
The approaching Chinese New Year holiday is the biggest focus in Friday's Chinese newspapers.
The new software will be available later this year in time for the holiday season, Ms. Reller said.
If you believe that was a manifesto commitment, you've probably already booked St David's Day off in anticipation of the Tories' promised new public holiday, but I digress.
The simplest explanation for the new holiday is that Russians expect a day off in November to spend chatting around the kitchen table and drinking even more heavily than usual.
In a February interview, Ryan Records, a vice president of payments and cards at Starbucks, highlighted rising amounts of money being loaded on the Starbucks Card, a holiday-season spike in new loyalty program members and strong mobile app downloads as reason to see the unit as being increasingly relevant to Starbucks.
"If you accept the NASD's over 600 new bylaw changes, in this very rushed balloting process during the holiday season, your firm may be regulated out of business within a short time, " the letter says.
Trading was thin, with many of the region's markets, including in Japan, China, Australia and Singapore, closed for the New Year holiday.
This post is prompted by two important things that happened on my recent holiday in the South Island of New Zealand.
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The Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to faxed requests for comment on Tuesday, a public holiday in China marking the Lunar New Year.
Other major additions to Fantasyland are scheduled to open in time for the 2012 holiday season, and new attractions will continue rolling out through 2014.
Most analysts blamed the timing of the Chinese New Year holiday for the surprising figures, which looked a lot better in January for China investors.
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Tim Cook and his C-Suite team took to the stage yesterday to debut a number of new devices, refreshing almost the entire consumer product line in time for the holiday season.
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Three of the U.K.'s biggest carriers--T-Mobile, Orange and 3--have said they won't be carrying the n81, Nokia's new phone with the built-in music-and-games store, this holiday season.
That takes out the big booms from holiday spending, as we are going to likely see in February with the Chinese New Year on the the tenth.
March is considered a key month to assess manufacturing activity as data in January and February is skewed by the Lunar New Year Holiday when many factories are shut.
But while the company benefitted from holiday sales in the fourth quarter, Netflix has spent much of the first quarter acquiring new content and exploring new revenue streams.
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Lunar New Year, the most important holiday in Chinese culture, falls on 10 February this year.
Considering the holiday effect of the Chinese New Year in early February and the increase in fuel prices, the inflation number came in above market expectations.
Even more damning, analysts are calling for a decline in PC and laptop sales for the holiday season (and Chinese New Year) on the heels of the release of Windows 8.
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