Lots of input from people in suits with spreadsheets and sales trend data.
Cyber Monday was the busiest shopping day last year and is expected to set sales trend for online retailers this holiday season.
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We also continue to see downside risks as the recent negative sales trend could accelerate and the accumulation of product failures could trigger major write-offs and marketing extra-costs.
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Along the East Coast, expect home sales to trend downward in coming months, as sellers take their damaged digs off the market and buyers hold off on purchases.
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The retail sales growth trend continued on a steady decline in February, reaching an almost-flat figure of 0.1% growth in the three month period compared to the same three month period a year ago.
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More important, says Carr, Sun's other motive may be inspiring an industry shift--one that could mean more high-end server sales and reverse a growing trend toward sales of cheaper Windows and Linux servers.
Jane, a sales manager in a product division of a large retail company, noticed a recent trend in her sales data.
New home sales have been picking up for several months, and that trend continued in August, with sales, as measured in square meters, up 13.3 percent year on year, after a 14.5 percent rise in July.
Do you think the upward trend in retail sales will hold through the summer?
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This shows how far nominal sales has deviated from the trend of 5.5 percent per year over the last two decades.
But the broader trend towards slower sales growth bears out forecasts by the Conference of British Industry and the retail research group Verdict.
Because the trend in the sales figure in the two months leading into May indicates that the recovery in new home sales was not as strong as the initial figures suggested.
We cannot say that BKS should have denied the current trend in book sales towards the digital, but maybe that they should not be devoting such a large investment in that direction.
While this move was likely overdone, the reason for the decline was an update on disappointing overseas sales that showed a slowing trend in Europe that included negative comps for flagship stores.
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Edward Lampert took Sears ( SHLD) into the dressing room more than a year ago, hoping to change its long-term trend of declining sales with a new vision for the venerable retailer.
With no excise tax announcements happening or pending in the near term, the decline in cigarette sales has slowed and the trend is expected to continue unless the market is disrupted by new excise duties.
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After many months of moribund sales, this is a welcome trend to both manufacturers and dealers alike.
The recent trend of rising auto sales will continue and that bodes well for copper and aluminum, she said.
While we expect Cisco will continue with its gradual growth trend in network security sales, the Trefis member community predicts a slight decline.
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In 2010, Massey saw an uptick in coal sales to utility customers, a trend that we expect to persist through our forecast period.
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Orlando experienced a similar trend with current distressed sales representing 25% of total sales, a substantial improvement over the rate of 49% at the start of the year, and below the high of over 54% seen in mid-2009.
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At the end of the day, Sandy may end up being beneficial for the U.S. economy, pushing indicators like construction spending, industrial production, and retail sales above their pre-disaster trend-lines over the next few quarters, according to Goldman Sachs.
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For some things, like retail sales, the categories into which Google classifies its search-trend data correspond closely to what people may want to predict, such as the sales of a particular brand of car (see chart).
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Though U.S. sales remained negative in 2010, the trend reversed in 2011, particularly helped by the acquisition of Sinful Colors in March 2011.
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The trend continued this year as sales increased by 33%, and 80% of retailers offered online promotions, according to an IBM Benchmark report.
That was 14% more than in October last year and reinforces the trend which has seen home sales rise by 7% in the first 10 months of the year, compared to the same period last year.
The Case-Shiller data was complemented by February new home sales numbers, which point to an upward trend.
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Should it trend weaker than expected, its sales will likely feel the pinch.
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