Local retail investors have cut their margin positions sharply, suggesting that they too are net sellers.
Providian should gain too: hitching itself to a big lender with lots of cheap retail deposits will cut its borrowing costs.
The new Medicare prescription drug plan may cut retail margins, but Walgreen offsets that by snagging the contract to sell Medicare prescriptions to managed-care giant UnitedHealth Group's plan.
Rather than trying to build its own retail chain, Gibbs cut a deal to sell much of Frontier's gasoline to Shell and Texaco stations.
Under Ms Johnson, Fidelity cut charges for retail index-fund investors to well below the opposition's.
So, too, would a cut in the retail mark-up charged by the state-owned dollar stores.
The gain reverses a slide in retail sales, as consumers cut back on spending amid worrying economic signs.
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But competition in the retail market is becoming ever more cut-throat.
According to the Confederation of British Industry, which lobbied for a rate cut this week, retail sales fell in the year to June at the steepest rate in its survey's 22-year history.
And consumers cut back on spending at retail stores and restaurants last month, a sign that higher Social Security taxes might have made more Americans cautious about spending.
Retail sales held up over Christmas, as shops cut prices to unload stocks.
Government was the third largest job-cutting sector in July behind retail, where employers like Borders announced plans to cut a total of 11, 245 jobs.
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But a closer look reveals Alexander's is a big owner of Brooklyn retail properties that are likely to suffer as consumers cut back on spending.
This bill of material cost, along with other factors such as the cut Nokia gives to its operator and retail partners makes up the retail price of the phone.
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First of all, it wasn't nearly as snappy as we'd have liked it to be, but the phone's not hitting retail for a couple months yet so we'll cut 'em some slack while they're ironing out the final kinks in the firmware.
Disney also cut its earnings forecast for 2003, blaming sluggish retail sales and a downturn in tourism.
The National Retail Federation, which represents 1.4m retailers, has cut its fourth-quarter sales-growth forecast almost in half, to 2.2%.
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to cut a further 1, 400 jobs from its retail banking head office over the next two years.
The freeze, which took place January 1, is part of an overarching t0ne for American frugality that is now combining with rising gas prices and causing many to cut back on discretionary spending in areas ranging from retail to air travel.
Even more important, those new jobs were largely the result of growth in the private sector, in construction, manufacturing, retail, and health care, gains that were substantial enough to offset the continuing cut-backs in government payrolls.
For nearly two decades he imported diamonds cut in Armenia and Belgium and sold them out of his modest shop in Boston to retail jewelers nationally and overseas.
It cut back on loans and started a program last spring that offers small-increment bonds to retail investors.
On the retail front, stores may be anticipating a slowdown in consumer spending as more Americans notice that taxes have cut into paychecks.
Because of an economic downturn in the UK described by NAB's chief executive Cameron Clyne as "longer and slower to recover than experienced in the 1930s following the Great Depression", the bank has decided to cut 1, 400 UK jobs, pull out of commercial property lending here and concentrate on retail and small business banking.
And their professed hope looks increasingly disingenuous to environmentalists since the British Retail Consortium (BRC) is now stating publicly that the government will have to legislate if it wants to cut the use of bags in England.
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