Retail news

• Investors and shoppers await clues on fallout from M&S cyber-attack

  18-05-2025 18:10
  Retailer due to report annual results, with many focused on financial impact of hack and when online orders will restart Shoppers and shareholders will look this week to Marks & Spencer to share more information about the impact of a damaging cyber-attack and whether the retailer can give clues on when it will be able to restart online orders.The UK’s biggest clothing retailer, which also sells food and homewares, has been struggling for almost a month since its IT systems were hit ove
  
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• This pause in the trade war will be brief. Small businesses, plan accordingly

  18-05-2025 13:00
  
  Trump’s animosity towards China isn’t going to disappear, and his past actions do not bode well for a quick resolutionDonald Trump’s massive Chinese tariffs are on pause. The media debated. Wall Street rejoiced. Many of my clients breathed a sigh of relief. Big retailers jumped for joy. But for how long?For starters, the tariffs that weren’t paused – a 10% levy on all Chinese goods, plus a bonus 20% tax that somehow relates to fentanyl, are still in place. When you
  
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