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U.S. retail sales grows 7.6% in holiday season -Mastercard data
(Reuters) - U.S. retail sales rose 7.6% between Nov. 1 and Dec. 24, which encompasses a majority of the holiday season, as steep discounts lured deal-hungry consumers, a Mastercard report showed on Mo...
Dec 26, 2022
Christmas tree recycling options in Central IL
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. — You may be wondering what to do with your live Christmas tree after the holidays. Residents of Tazewell County can bring their trees to a number of drop off points Decemb...
Dec 26, 2022
Japanese shares end higher on Wall Street gains, financials weigh
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese shares ended higher on Monday, underpinned by Wall Street's strength in the previous session, with heavyweight technology and energy stocks leading the gains, while a drop i...
Dec 26, 2022
Deadly blizzard, deemed worst in 45 years, paralyzes greater Buffalo, N.Y
By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - Road and utility crews faced the task on Monday of digging out and restoring some normalcy around Buffalo, New York, where a blizzard considered the area's worst in 45 ...
Dec 26, 2022
China’s October domestic smartphone shipments fell 27.2%
BEIJING (Reuters) - Shipments of smartphones within China in October fell 27.2% year on year to 23.78 million handsets, a report from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology sai...
Dec 26, 2022
Chinese academic database fined by antitrust watchdog
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has fined China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) 87.6 million yuan ($12.6 million) for abusing a "dominant market ...
Dec 26, 2022
Battery swapping spurs Kenya’s electric motorbike drive
By Ayenat Mersie NAIROBI (Reuters) - Over recent months, sets of sturdy, brightly-branded battery swapping stations have cropped up around Kenya's capital Nairobi, allowing electric motorcyclists to e...
Dec 26, 2022
Japan insurers in talks with reinsurers to resume coverage in Russian waters
TOKYO (Reuters) - Three Japanese insurance companies that are set to halt marine coverage of risks related to the war in Ukraine starting next month are in talks with reinsurers to resume those operat...
Dec 26, 2022
Rouble edges higher after biggest weekly slump since July
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian rouble edged higher against the dollar on Monday, recovering some ground after its largest weekly slump since early July on fears over the impact of oil and gas sanction...
Dec 26, 2022
Dutch governor Knot signals ECB will keep raising rates in months ahead- FT
(Reuters) - Head of Dutch Central Bank Klaas Knot said with five policy meetings between now and July 2023, the ECB would achieve "quite a decent pace of tightening" through half percentage point rise...
Dec 25, 2022
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