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Banks and building societies leapfrog retailers in customer satisfaction index
News from The City, market updates plus comment and analysis from our business desk I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Banks and building societies have overtaken the retail…
Buy these 4 retail stocks poised to dominate the next 3 months: UBS
UBS strategists have run a quant analysis and arrived a handful of retail stocks it's particularly bullish one right now. In a recent client note, analyst Jay Sole laid out his team's top picks for the next three months, based on three key…
Banks and building societies leapfrog retailers in customer satisfaction index
Banks and building societies have overtaken the retail sector for the first time in a long-running customer satisfaction index. The top spot for the banking sector as a whole came as Nationwide Building Society was named in the research as the top…
Mid-Year 2026 U.S. Retail/Restaurant Outlook
The LSEG Retail/Restaurant Index reported Q1 2026 earnings growth of 27.2%. Retail earnings in the first quarter of 2026 received a significant boost from a historic tax refund season, reinforcing consumer spending at a time when the labor market…
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Nationwide named UK's best brand for customer service as banks overtake retailers
Nationwide has been named the UK's best-performing brand for customer service, as banks and building societies overtook retailers for the first time, reflecting a dramatic turnaround for a sector still rebuilding trust after the 2008 financial…
Editorial | 13-month retail growth streak proves Hong Kong is back in business
Hong Kong's retail is getting its mojo back. Once branded a shopping paradise, the sector fell on hard times due to the Covid-19 pandemic and then across-the-border shopping and dining. But it is, as they say, back in business. Sales in May rose…
India fashion retailer Trent tumbles 11% as revenue growth disappoints
Shares of Trent, one of India's biggest fast fashion retailers, fell over 11% on Tuesday. The Tata Group company reported revenue of 56.66 billion rupees ($595 million) for the quarter ended June, up 19% on year. Citi said in a report that it…
Watch Retail Investors Use ETFs as a Tool For Alpha: Zhang
Retail Investors Use ETFs as a Tool For Alpha: Zhang Sylvia Zhang, executive director and assistant head of global index at E Fund Management, joins Scarlet Fu, Katie Greifeld, and Eric Balchunas on 'Bloomberg ETF IQ.' They discusses China's…
CBA retail boss' poorly timed Balinese holiday
Commonwealth Bank of Australia executives announced more redundancies last week. The job losses would come from engineering, tech and CBA's retail banking division led by executive Angus Sullivan. Some emails were sent around about it last Friday…
Microreactors Reach Milestones And Retailers Go Nuclear
Deployable Energy's Unity microreactor reached criticality at Idaho National Laboratory. This completed the third advanced reactor demonstration under a presidential executive order. Constellation Energy (CEG) signed a long-term power purchase…
Struggling retailer Toys 'R' Us to shutter Transcona store
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Retailers See Foot Traffic Surge During Prime Day Counter Sales
Now that Prime Day has wrapped up, location analytics firm Placer.ai crunched the numbers on foot traffic for Amazon retail rivals who were offering countermeasures to the deep discounts. Researchers at the company said the efforts paid off by…
'Rapid growth' of retail media laid bare in IAB findings
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) of Australia has declared retail media to be in a period of “rapid growth”, with fast-increasing spending into the sector paying dividends. In its retail and commerce media “state of the…
Australian mid-year retail spending resilient, data shows
Australian consumers continued to spend throughout the mid-year peak sales season, according to transaction records released by Shopify. The metric tracking individual consumers' purchases from local digital merchants rose by 16.9 per cent compared…
EXCLUSIVE: Madison Avenue Vacancy Hits 20-year Low in Multiyear Retail Rebound
There's no let up to Madison Avenue ‘s retail rebound. A total of 18 stores, galleries and restaurants opened in prime locations along Madison Avenue over the past six months, bringing the vacancy rate down to 4.9 percent, the lowest level…
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