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Published: Mar 17, 2025, 12:46 GMT+00:00 Key Points: February retail sales rose just 0.2%, significantly missing the 0.6% forecast and signaling consumer caution despite better purchasing power. E-commerce continues to outperform traditional retail with nonstore retailers posting strong 6.5% year-over-year growth in February. The weaker-than-expected retail figures provide compelling evidence for the Federal Reserve to

The UK’s biggest building merchant Travis Perkins has warned of an “uncertain” recovery in the construction market after reporting huge losses. In a stock market update on Tuesday (1 March), the FTSE 250 firm posted a pre-tax loss of £38.4m in the year ending 31 December 2024 – a drop of 131 per cent from

An interesting start to the year.Today, analyst firm Circana (formerly NPD), has revealed some interesting facts & figures about how the gaming industry is performing at the start of 2025 - and we thought Xbox's game sales chart for last month was quite interesting to look at.The top 10 best-selling games on Xbox last month

Sales of Tesla fell in Europe to start the year, falling 59% in Germany in January, as reported by the Financial Times. And, at least for now, as the report notes, the trend appears to be following suit throughout the rest of Europe.  In January, Tesla's new car registrations in Germany plunged 59.5% to 1,277...

Retailers are busy clearing out stock and slashing prices (The Independent ) Pop the champagne. It’s 2025, and the January sales are officially here. The new year has arrived, bringing with it the most exciting shopping event of the season. Retailers big and small are clearing out stock, and the deals are nothing short of

When you really probe venture capitalists about investing in AI startups, they’ll tell you that businesses are experimenting wildly but are very slow to add AI solutions into their ongoing business processes.  But there are some exceptions. And one of them appears to be an area known as AI sales development representatives, or AI SDRs.

Graphic: Images: Hims & Hers, Bloomberg / Contributor, Steve Christo - Corbis / Contributor, UCG / Contributor Sales of Eli Lilly’s ( LLY ) blockbuster weight-loss drug Zepbound doubled in the fourth quarter year over year, despite missing the company’s initial sales expectations . Novo Nordisk ( NVO ), the maker of the popular GLP-1

by William D'Angelo , posted 6 hours ago / 2,508 Views The PlayStation 5 Pro accounted for 26 percent of all PS5 console sold in the UK in November, according to GfK Entertainment data reported by GamesIndustry.  Overall, there were nearly 270,000 video game consoles sold (Nielsen GfK panel data) in the UK in November 2024.