M&S predicts waning customer demand next year

UK retailer Marks and Spencer said it expected a “material contraction” in customer demand next year and predicted more retail failures. “The combined impacts of the cost-of-living squeeze and the most marked rise in the cost of doing business for many years are creating pressure on margins industry-wide,” the group said on Wednesday in its … Read more

Confidence waning but Liverpool will recover, says Van Dijk

Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk believes his team’s confidence has been “creeping away”, after they dropped to 10th in the Premier League table following Sunday’s 3-2 defeat at Arsenal, but the Dutch defender backed them to rediscover their belief. Arsenal winger Bukayo Saka scored twice, including a late winning penalty, to hand the visitors their second … Read more

America’s Love Affair With Sleeping Pills May Be Waning

By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Aug. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Fewer Americans are turning to sleep medications to fight insomnia. After a dramatic rise in prescriptions for drugs like Ambien, the trend has ebbed, according to a new study, and fewer doctors are prescribing sleep medications. Use of these sleep aids dropped 31% … Read more

OPEC+’s tiny boost to oil output may show its waning influence: Russell

Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Economy PMN Business Author of the article: Article content LAUNCESTON — The almost inconsequential increase in oil output announced by the OPEC+ group has highlighted an emerging dynamic in global crude markets, namely that the producer group is no longer in the driving seat. Since OPEC+ was formed in 2017 the … Read more