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<title>Automotive Industry Today: Consumer Confidence News</title>
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<title>US in recession; Europe backs spending hikes</title>
<link>http://automotive.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201338259</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 12:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  1930s. Expectations of more rate cuts in Britain were underlined by the UK&#39;s PMI index showing manufacturing shrank at a  ...  tumbling sales, taking fresh hits from plunging consumer confidence on the world&#39;s car lots. German retail  ...
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<title>Shoppers paying less at checkout as VAT is cut</title>
<link>http://automotive.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201326748</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 09:17 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to 15% for 13 months, to raise consumer confidence. The reduction would cost the government 12.5bn  ...  to customers,&quot; said a spokesman for the British Retail Consortium. A group of 20 retailers  ...
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<title>Yesterday&#39;s trading: Dow plunges on recession fears</title>
<link>http://automotive.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201321572</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 08:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  on trading this morning and its well-trailed UK sales figures are not expected to look  ...  strongest retail performers, Tesco&#39;s bleak reflection of consumer confidence has sent a shiver through the sector.  ...
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<title>The fifth shock storms ashore</title>
<link>http://automotive.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201313837</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 07:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the US, Europe, Japan, but also Australasia, UK, Canada, China, India, South East Asia (Taiwan,  ...  also extending to households (record low US consumer confidence levels), and this now spilling over to  ...
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<title>Character Group PLC - Preliminary Results</title>
<link>http://automotive.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201313105</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  adversely affected by significantly weaker than anticipated UK retail trading environment and an exceptional one-off  ...  2008 Christmas period at a time when consumer confidence is at its lowest level for years  ...  January 2009. Postman Pat is a modern British Classic which has been around for 27  ...
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<title>Shared denial takes Big 3 to brink</title>
<link>http://automotive.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201306479</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 06:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  year-long recession, the credit crunch and plummeting consumer confidence. But the truth is that Detroit&#39;s dire  ...  major European or Asian nations. Except in Britain, where nationalization of its moribund domestic auto  ...
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<title>Howes: Shared denial takes Big 3 to brink</title>
<link>http://automotive.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201302441</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 06:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  year-long recession, the credit crunch and plummeting consumer confidence. But the truth is that Detroit&#39;s dire  ...  major European or Asian nations. Except in Britain, where nationalization of its moribund domestic auto  ...
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<title>U.S. in recession as Europe backs spending hikes</title>
<link>http://automotive.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201299374</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 06:17 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  1930s. Expectations of more rate cuts in Britain were underlined by the UK&#39;s PMI index showing manufacturing shrank at a  ...  tumbling sales, taking fresh hits from plunging consumer confidence on the world&#39;s car lots. German retail  ...
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<title>Credit crunch creates a nation of savers</title>
<link>http://automotive.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201296882</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 05:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of savers Despite a drastic drop in consumer confidence in the economy, more people are saving,  ...  sample was a representative sample of the UK population of those aged 18-65. The most  ...
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<title>Indians abroad worried but positive</title>
<link>http://automotive.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201295481</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 05:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to a recent Neilson consumer report on consumer confidence, concerns spending and attitudes to recession. About  ...  the world like Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, UK and USA and help them with visa,  ...
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<title>U.S. in recession; Europe backs spending hikes</title>
<link>http://automotive.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201291867</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 04:50 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  1930s. Expectations of more rate cuts in Britain were underlined by the UK&#39;s PMI index showing manufacturing shrank at a  ...  tumbling sales, taking fresh hits from plunging consumer confidence on the world&#39;s car lots. German retail  ...
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<title>No recession here in B.C.?</title>
<link>http://automotive.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201275888</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 01:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a shortage of skilled labour. The average British Columbian right now is worried about their  ...  imported goods now. And while surveys show consumer confidence has fallen with turmoil in world financial  ...
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<title>Market Report: Even Tesco feels High Street pain</title>
<link>http://automotive.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201273660</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 01:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  on trading this morning and its well-trailed UK sales figures are not expected to look  ...  strongest retail performers, Tesco&#39;s bleak reflection of consumer confidence has sent a shiver through the sector.  ...
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<title>It&#39;s now or never for last big interest-rate cut</title>
<link>http://automotive.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201272072</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 01:13 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the pound dropped yet again. However, for British consumers it was the day that VAT  ...  in every wage-earner&#39;s pocket  will boost consumer confidence and high street sales just in time  ...
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<title>Shoppers paying less as VAT is cut</title>
<link>http://automotive.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201267591</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 00:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to 15% for 13 months, to raise consumer confidence. The reduction would cost the government 12.5bn  ...  to customers,&quot; said a spokesman for the British Retail Consortium. A group of 20 retailers  ...
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