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Shanghai Gold Exchange pushes more Chinese banks to end retail leverage trading
At least a dozen Chinese banks intend to wind down retail leveraged precious-metals trading – a practice in which everyday investors post margin deposits to speculate on gold and silver contracts without owning the physical metal. The…
Cat owners are spending more and boosting pet retailers
General Mills, Chewy, and Petco pointed to strong sales of cat products on their respective earnings calls this month. The dog industry still shows signs of softening with each company strategizing on how to account for changing pet adoption…
Chinese retail chain faces rare backlash for limiting new hires to 4-year contracts
Retail tycoon Yu Donglai, widely known as China's “most conscientious” boss, recently triggered public controversy with a proposal to sign only a four-year “training initiative” contract with future new hires, without…
Q3 2026 U.S. Retail Scorecard - Update September 24, 2026
The LSEG U.S. Retail and Restaurant Q3 earnings index, which tracks changes in the growth rate of earnings within the sector, is expected to post a 6.8% growth over last year's levels. Of the 184 retailers tracked by LSEG, the Leisure Products…
The magic number helping Solomon Lew beat the retail recession
Solomon Lew is being just a little cagey. The 81-year-old executive chairman of Premier Investments is a master of retail reinvention, and he's just tweaked the dials to ensure that his group's two retail chains, pyjama giant Peter Alexander and…
Why Retailers Might Want to Ditch Their Media Ad Spend Playbook
Holiday retail planning for the fourth quarter traditionally follows the same formulas year-over-year for many brands, but as the way in which customers shop throughout the season continues to shift in unexpected ways, research from Measured…
How monetising UPI hurts electronics retailers
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) was championed as a free, indigenous technological innovation designed to democratise digital payments and accelerate the nation's formal economy. But a sudden pivot toward monetisation creates severe structural…
General Mills rebuilds retail momentum with price cuts, innovation & marketing
General Mills sees improving retail sales after price cuts, product innovation and stepped-up marketing aimed at driving growth.
Birkenstock Wins Landmark Copyright Case Against Lidl, Barring the Retailer From Selling Lookalikes
Birkenstock has scored yet another legal victory in its efforts to protect its copyrights. The District Court of Gelderland, sitting in Arnhem, in the Netherlands ruled in favor of Birkenstock on a landmark copyright case concerning lookalikes of…
European watchdogs prepare direct oversight of AI and tokenization in retail finance
The European Securities and Markets Authority will make artificial intelligence, tokenization and other emerging financial technologies a supervisory priority beginning in 2027. European Union regulators will map firms' use of AI and tokenized…
AI-Powered Campaign Targets Hundreds of Online Retailers
A threat actor is using autonomous AI agents in an ongoing campaign targeting hundreds of online retailers, cybersecurity outfit Gambit reports. Active since July, the campaign relies on three AI harnesses to automate the attack chain, including…
Superdrug opens new Strathkelvin Retail Park store in Glasgow area, creating 30 jobs
Located at Unit 7, Strathkelvin Retail Park, the new store offers health and beauty products, professional treatments and healthcare services. It features a Beauty Studio offering walk-in lash, brow, nail and piercing treatments, alongside an…
Cushman & Wakefield among winners of Retail Deal of the Year awards
The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) announced on Wednesday the winners of its annual Retail Deal of the Year Awards, recognizing notable retail real estate transactions and projects across NYC. The 28th annual event drew about 150 members and…
Meet Uncharted: South Portland's newest retail destination
You know that feeling when you find a place so good you immediately tell your friends about it? Uncharted is a place where any occasion can be celebrated. Birthdays, holidays, teacher gifts, wardrobe refreshes, that trend you saw on TikTok (hello…
The Retail Investor Fleecing Marches On: Another 319 Million SpaceX Shares Unlock Today, Sept. 24
On June 12, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) and space infrastructure goliath, Space Exploration Technologies (better known as SpaceX) (SPCX -4.11%), reset the bar for initial public offerings (IPOs). The $85.7 billion raised from its IPO…
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