Retail in winter of discontent
Sydney Morning Herald
Yesterday it was Retravision Southern, a buying and marketing co-operative that supplies a range of consumer electrical goods to more than 100 independently owned Retravision stores in Victoria, Tasmania and southern New South Wales.

Existing Home Sales, Durable Goods, China PMI: Economic Events For May 21 - 25
International Business Times
By Moran Zhang: Subscribe to Moran's RSS feed This week's economic calendar is relatively light in the US with the releases of existing home sales, durable goods orders, and the University of Michigan consumer confidence survey.

DIARY-US MEETINGS / DAY AHEAD
Reuters
... 13:00 Direct Insite Corp Annual S/holder Meeting 21 May 13:00 ITT Corp at Electrical Products Group Conf 21 May 13:30 JPMorgan Chase at Deutsche Bank Financial Inv Conf 21 May 22:00 GlobalSCAPE at B. Riley & Co Inv Conf 21 May 22:00 INTL Bancshares ...

Retravision Southern joins the casualty list
Sydney Morning Herald
Yesterday it was Retravision Southern, a buying and marketing co-operative that supplies a range of consumer electrical goods to more than 100 independently owned Retravision stores in Victoria, Tasmania and southern NSW. It was placed in voluntary ...

Slow And Steady But Far From Comforting
NASDAQ
Consumers are turning in muted showing. US retail sales rose 0.1 percent month-over-month in April following a 0.7 percent increase in March. The slowdown reflected the impact of an early Easter. Auto sales rose 0.3 percent, furniture sales climbed 0.7 ...

Industrial Production Growing at Fastest Rate Since June 2010
Modern Machine Shop (blog)
The consumer durable goods industrial production index was 94.9 in April 2012. This is the index's third highest value since February 2008. The only two months higher in value were February and March of this year. April industrial production was 13.3 ...
Mortgage Rates Forecast: The Week Ahead for Rates Mortgage Rates & Trends (blog)

The R pinch: get set to pay more for home appliances
Hindustan Times
Get ready to pay more for home appliances and other electronic goods. Consumer durable makers are readying for the third round of price hike in 10 months to offset cost pressures, thanks to a depreciating rupee and escalating raw material prices.

Consumer Appliances in Thailand
SBWire (press release)
Thailand's consumer appliances market continued to perform well in 2011. Total market volume and current value sales both grew at a slightly faster pace than in 2010, and growth rates also surpassed the respective CAGRs for the entire review period.

Memory as a Consumer Durable
The Atlantic
By Megan McArdle According to the arcane conventions of economic statistics, a "consumer durable" is any physical product that lasts longer than three years: cars, fridges, computers (Strangely, Levi's don't count as a durable). 1.

Indian Shares Higher For Third Day
NASDAQ
Realty, banking, capital goods, power and consumer durable goods stocks are among the prominent gainers, while IT stocks are subdued. The rupee is trading flat against the dollar after G8 leaders sought a "strong and cohesive" eurozone.