Holiday Shopping gets off to slow start

Reuters Business News

'The U.S. holiday shopping season got off to a sluggish start with high oil prices and weak consumer confidence hitting the key Thanksgiving weekend, according to three retail indices released on Tuesday.
Retailers release November sales figures on Thursday, but analysts started to trim some forecasts after reports showed disappointing sales during the Thanksgiving weekend, one of the year's biggest shopping weekends that kicks off the holidays.

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Wal-Mart shares, after falling 4 percent on Monday, were down another 1.22 percent, or $0.65, at $52.50 on Tuesday.'


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=11&u=/nm/20041130/bs_nm/retail_holidays_dc


It will be interesting to watch what happens to 'Consumer confidence' this year.

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... turned the corner. And it was hard work. Yadda yadda yadda.