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Technology Stocks : Applied Materials No-Politics Thread (AMAT)
AMAT 256.41+1.1%Dec 19 4:00 PM EST

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To: MrGreenJeans who wrote (4616)12/26/2002 2:16:31 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz  Read Replies (2) of 25522
 
>> At least tell the other part of the story which is 10% of all retail sales during the holiday season are made the week after Christmas.
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Apparently the same author decided to address that very point in a follow up article. Maybe she read your post. I guess we're doomed. Give up hope, all who enter here!
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Post-Christmas Sales Too Late to Help Retailers
2 hours, 6 minutes ago Add Business - Reuters to My Yahoo!


By Emily Kaiser

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. retailers including the world's biggest, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., have all but given up hope that post-Christmas shopping sprees will kick-start sluggish sales, even as bargain-hunters make their annual pilgrimage to the malls on Thursday.
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