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High street sales remained sluggish in April, despite the volume of sales rising compared with last year, said the CBI.
Retail sales staged an unexpected recovery in March, providing some respite for the embattled high street.
The Dow Jones is trading in the red after lower-than-expected US retail sales figures weighed on investor sentiment.
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UK retail sales rose by a worse than expected 0.4% from February to March, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show.
The FTSE 100 has opened 0.06% or 3.24 points lower to 5,774 in early trading as rises in retail stocks were offset by falling mining shares.
The Arsenal boardroom power struggle could heat up after the club's fourth-largest shareholder appointed a firm to find a buyer for her shares.
ETFs are making inroads in the US institutional space, despite being typically thought of as a retail product in the US, according to a new survey by consultant Greenwich Associates.
The European ETF industry is expected to exceed $500bn in assets under management (AUM) by the end of 2012, according to BlackRock.
Jonathan Willcocks, managing director global sales at M&G and Nick Blake, head of retail sales at Vanguard Investments UK, square off.
The disgraced financier Bernie Madoff has received a $13,800 (£8,500) tax rebate, angering clients who lost billions in the biggest Ponzi scheme in Wall Street history.
Bonds continue to dominate UK net retail sales although equity funds are starting to gain ground, according to IMA sales figures for July.
F&C has made redundancies across its retail sales division in a restructure of its adviser-facing team.
Net retail sales in UK domiciled funds plunged to a £21m outflow in September, more than £900m down on the inflow recorded the corresponding month last year.
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