Anyone with a tinsel allergy might also point to the importance of Christmas to the retail trade.
"All of that was okay because I didn't really think I was in the retail trade, " he says.
In the retail trade, American employment figures are 60% higher than Dutch ones.
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It can be found everywhere in the corporate world, from credit-card companies to hotel chains to the retail trade.
Which means millions of people being fired from the retail trade as everyone other than the actual cashiers is made redundant.
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They run most of the retail trade and their traditional leaders loathe Mr Hakeem, regarding him as an Islamic fundamentalist in the making.
Amazingly, a large number seem ready to put the blame on themselves, and, as if to show that they bear the retail trade no hard feelings, they wander off peacefully down the road to do their shopping at a nearby Tesco instead.
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Hong Kong is dominated by a large number of smallish brokers who cater mainly to the local retail trade.
The Federation of Small Business and the Northern Ireland Independent Retail Trade Association support the idea which could potentially put more money in the pot to help give small businesses rates relief.
These statistics underscore the fact that retail trade is stagnating, which it has been since 2003.
In the utilities and retail trade sectors, Monster reported increases in employer demand for labor of at least 15% from a year ago.
For retail investors the gold trade was both a fear and a greed trade.
The big loser was retail trade, where employment fell by 24, 000 after six months that averaged an increase of 32, 000.
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U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the NFIB small business index, weekly Goldman Sachs chain store sales index, the producer price index, retail sales, the weekly Johnson Redbook retail sales report and manufacturing and trade inventories and sales.
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"The industry is evolving very rapidly, and the law today is a 20th-century interpretation of an 18th-century document that is holding back the entire retail industry as it adapts to 21st-century consumer preferences and demand, " said David French, senior vice president for government affairs at the National Retail Federation, a retail-industry trade group lobbying for the legislation.
U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the weekly Goldman Sachs chain store sales index, the Empire State manufacturing survey, the producer price index, advance retail sales, the weekly Johnson Redbook retail sales report, and manufacturing and trade inventories.
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U.S. economic data due for release Wednesday includes the weekly MBA mortgage applications survey, the producer price index, retail sales, manufacturing and trade data, and the weekly DOE energy stocks report.
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U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the NFIB index of small business optimism, the weekly Goldman Sachs and Johnson Redbook retail sales reports, wholesale trade and the IMF world economic outlook.
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For this reason the Olympics will boost food sales more than non-food products, predicts the British Retail Consortium, a trade association.
High numbers of people on the High Street, as reflected in the UK's strong retail sales data, also boosted trade, the spokesman added.
As retail investors exit the trade, taking with them their negative sentiment, Citi appears as an attractively valued stock backed by a strong business model and good management.
Technical analysis is powerful because charts are a reflection of emotions, and the gold trade has become crowded with irrational retail investors who buy into the hype at exactly the wrong time.
In fact, the crowded trade in November and December was that retail for the holidays was going to be above expectations.
U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the weekly Goldman Sachs and Johnson Redbook retail sales reports, the producer price index, retail sales, the Empire State manufacturing survey, and manufacturing and trade inventories.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, retail sales, manufacturing and trade inventories and sales, and the monthly Treasury budget statement.
U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the NFIB small business index, the weekly Goldman Sachs chain store sales index, international trade report, the weekly Johnson Redbook retail sales report and the release of the latest FOMC minutes.
Retail investors have exited the trade, taking their very pessimistic money off the table.
Retail industry sales (which exclude automobiles, gas stations, and restaurants) in August increased 0.1 percent seasonally adjusted over July and 6 percent unadjusted year-over-year, according to the monthly survey by the National Retail Federation, a retail trade association.
The figures from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry also showed that retail sales in February rose 1.6% from the previous month.
Heading the list of the unhappiest industries to work in is retail trade, with an index score of 3.71.
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