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Eastern time, italian unemployment 37year high and more signs of euro zone reflation. Shopper trak out with the first wide scale read on the Holiday Shopping season and its a mixed picture for november and december, instore foot traffic at the nations retailers fell 14. 6 compared to the year prior but instore sales grew at 2. 7 . Slightly hopper than what shoppertrak had forecast. The main reason for the traffic plunge they say is that. Shoers are making fewer store visits than in the past because most window shopping and browsing is done online ahead of time, so the shoppers that are making the Shopping Trips are going with intended purchases in mind. Black friday was indeed the strongest day for brick and mortar retailers both for sales and traffic. Then there was a large lull until the lastminute panic kicked in. The week ending december 28th accounted for four of the top ten sales and traffic days for the entire Holiday Season. When it comes to categories shoppertrak says electron
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It is tailoring its office suite to work on apples ios devices for the first time. Who is and what are his qualifications yeah co. Heres a background look at the man who is taken over for steve ballmer. How would you like to follow this act . The good news is, no one expects him to be steve ballmer, or for that matter wants him to be. In fact, and adele as now having to deal with the tugofwar over strategy. Cofounder bill gates initially disagreed with ballmers land to make mobile devices. It did not help that their tablet was a dud. Iker soft promoted a manager who has proven himself on both the business and tech sides. Hes an electrical engineer from india who got his mba at the university of chicago. He spent 22 years at microsoft heard he ran the companys r d unit before ballmer named him head of the server group. He reengineered that business that is now known today as cloud and enterprise. He is seen as someone who can help microsoft innovate faster as it tries to navigate the po
The nook. Crook. Ok with a let me just mention mcdonalds. Potentially third consecutive month. Four states go to the polls today. Vote onork, we get to the Party Nominees for governor. President obama is meeting with congressional leaders on how to deal with islamic state. Lets look at the clarity of the data check. The turn to the equity markets is all about currency this morning. We will address this through all of bloomberg surveillance this morning. On to the next screen. The fix. Vix. A little bit of angst on monday. Sterling continues to get crushed. Gold is doing a turn. Lets get some dollar perspective. This is the plaza in new york. Strong dollar. In this has been the persistent decade trend. Were at a critical junction. These are standard deviations. We dont discuss those in september. No one is talking about the currency war, but we are not ready to proclaim this an era of strong dollar. Everyone is saying we are almost at a critical junction finally. In other words, the lon