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IANS | 27 Nov, 2017
Black Friday and Thanksgiving
online sales in the US rose to record highs, while brick-and-mortar
store traffic fell slightly, heralding divergent trends in retail
industry in the year-end shopping season, according to retail analytics
firms on Sunday.
The online sales on Black Friday and
Thanksgiving rose to $7.9 billion, a record high, and up 17.9 per cent
from a year ago, said Adobe Analytics in a latest report, which covers
transactions at the largest 100 US online retailers, Xinhua reported.
Cyber
Monday, the Monday after the Thanksgiving, is expected to rake in $6.6
billion in online sales, making it the biggest US online shopping day in
history, said the report.
The sales data for traditional
brick-and-mortar stores is still unavailable. The National Retail
Federation (NRF) said fair weather across much of the nation had helped
draw shoppers into stores. NRF will release its data of Thanksgiving,
Black Friday and Cyber Monday on Tuesday.
Preliminary data
tracking shoppers' visits to physical stores on Thanksgiving Day and
Black Friday shows a year-over-year decline of 1.6 percent, according to
retail research firm ShopperTrak.
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Currency |
Import |
Export |
US Dollar
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66.20
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64.50 |
UK Pound
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87.50
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84.65 |
Euro
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78.25
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75.65 |
Japanese
Yen |
58.85 |
56.85 |
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