Economic Indicators

TABLE-UK's John Lewis weekly dept store sales down 4.3 pct 6:50am BST

LONDON, May 16 (Reuters) - British retailer John Lewis Partnership [JLP.UL] on Friday gave the following sales figures for the latest week compared to a year earlier.  Full Article

 
April drop extends UK comm property fall to 17 pct Thursday, 15 May 2008 

LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - British commercial property values slid by 1 percent in April, extending the market's slide from last summer's bull market peak to almost 17 percent, data from Investment Property Databank (IPD) showed on Thursday.  Full Article 

FACTBOX-Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo Wednesday, 14 May 2008 

May 14 (Reuters) - Power shortages threaten to slow mining development in Congo and drive up project costs in one of the world's richest copper and cobalt regions. [ID:nL14775869]  Full Article 

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