The marketing group Footfall suggested pre-Christmas sales were down 7% on last year, but recovered to show a strong jump in sales shopping as canny shoppers waited for cut-price offers.
On its chart, the stock found support at its key 200-day moving average, and made a big-volume jump after the strong report.
Both will see their 2011 incomes jump thanks to their strong seasons on the track.
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Driving the strong month: a 26% jump in software sales, which was accompanied by a 12% increase in hardware sales, and a 20% jump in accessory sales.
Money lender Wonga has announced a sharp jump in profits, thanks to strong demand for credit during the downturn.
The jump in manufacturing employment suggests a strong industrial and manufacturing output.
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Mr Sharon's move was partly a response to a domestic outcry about the attack, but it was also a clever tactic: it forced Mr Abbas, basking in international praise for his strong and relatively clean election victory, to jump back to concentrating on Israel's main concern, its own security.
On Jan. 25, Lyondell reported a 62% jump in fourth-quarter profit amid strong demand for its refining and ethylene businesses.
Starbucks posted strong earnings after the bell on Thursday, seeing revenues jump on growing international sales and expanding margins.
On Tuesday, the US registered a surprisingly strong rebound in consumer confidence for February, and a jump in new home sales in January.
On Thursday the company released a higher than expected quarterly profit, helped by a jump in European and Asian sales, and projected strong revenue and earnings growth through 2013.
Strong tech sales may account, in part, for a big jump in e-shopping this year.
Baidu forecast strong growth in the current quarter, in part due to an anticipated jump in Internet traffic due to the Olympics.
However, Mr Tagawa warned that despite the jump in sales and recovery from the disasters, "the strong yen continues to have a negative impact on full-year fiscal 2011 results".
The high-rise condo market in Miami, for instance, has been buoyed by surprisingly strong demand from foreign buyers, and the Phoenix housing market has recently seen a large jump in demand from investors.
Despite the withdrawal of World outdoors triple jump champion Phillips Idowu, Britain still have big medal hopes among their 36-strong squad.
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England's 2006 gold medallist and strong favourite for this year's event, Idowu , has pulled out of the triple jump due to concerns about the athletes' village and security.
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Ocado saw its shares jump 24.5% in the first hour of trading, after it reported a strong rise in sales over the Christmas and New Year period, on top of news about a possible technology-licensing agreement with Morrisons.
The company got a jump on graphics chip rivals over the summer with a new series of graphics processors that have won strong reviews and grabbed market share from Nvidia, one of the chip industry's toughest competitors.
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