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Lingering insecurity could hold down holiday spending
www.mailtribune.com

Analysts say stores started discounting such items in October and expect promotions throughout the holiday shopping season — a period that can contribute between 20 and 40 percent of retailers' sales. The National Retail Federation is estimating a 3.9 …

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Hezbollah in Namibia?
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The Namrights report identifies a known affluent Namibian businessman, of Lebanese descent, as the suspected Namibian Hezbollah representative, financier and recruitment official. The businessman (name known) last week denied the allegations of his …

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The New Head of Pakistan's Army Holds the Country's Most Important Job
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“How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?” … Francis has little use for those who argue that cutting taxes for the rich helps the poor. “Some …

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Landmark food scheme may have turned stale
www.thehindu.com

Santosh Chaudhury, 35, runs a laundry in Raipur's affluent Telebandha area. With his moderate … Milled grains and other food items are then sent to cooperative societies that stock and distribute the material such as the one in Telebandha. “We …

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The changing tempo of men's retail
business.inquirer.net

“Men's items represent 50 percent of the market, according a 2012 luxury goods worldwide market study by management consulting firm Bain & Company,” shares Avinash Uttamchandani, general manager of Newtrends International Corp., a local retail network …

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ASEAN companies need to map out M&A to win the AEC
www.thailand-business-news.com

Additionally, 60% of executives will expand their current portfolio of brands and products, and 24% will create new brands or product lines altogether after 2015 in order to reach more consumers. Southeast Asian companies are positioned to carve out a …

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Unexplored coastal spots you must visit
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The affluent neighbourhood is an 11 km stretch that is surrounded on three sides by the ocean. It's home to … Famed items include the Lansdowne Heracles sculpture and Victorious Youth — one of the only life-size Green bronze statues remaining …

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Tiffany Profit Tops Estimates as Jeweler Raises Prices
www.bloomberg.com

The shares posted their biggest gain in more than two years. Tiffany, the world's second-largest luxury jewelry retailer, is benefiting from surging stock prices and rising home values that are bolstering affluent shoppers' willingness to purchase …

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Lower Your 2013 Tax Bill
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While the top 1% of taxpayers will bear much of the burden of this year's increases, experts say, the code also has new tax traps for the affluent, roughly defined as people with an adjusted gross income, or AGI, between $150,000 and $500,000 …

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