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Moody’s To Consider Online Sales For Credit Ratings

Moody's Investors Service has announced that it will consider online sales when determining the credit rating of retailers."As online sales become a larger percentage of total sales for individual issuers, and as online spending gains a bigger share of overall retail spending, a retailer's Internet strategy is becoming a more important factor in Moody's credit analysis," said vice president and senior credit officer Margaret Taylor in a report.

Online Retailers Cautious About Global Expansion

U.S. online retailers have an interest in expanding internationally, but few currently have a global presence according to a new report from JupiterResearch, "Global Online Retail: Navigating Successful International Expansion."The report found that low dollar values, a slowdown in the U.S. economy, and a shifting global Internet population have all contributed to online retailers considering international markets as important to their growth strategies, but many remain cautious about global expansion.

January's Top Ten Online Retailers Identified

Following the holiday bonanza, January can be a dead month for many retailers.  Recent numbers from Nielsen revealed the ten companies that best survived (in terms of online conversion rates) the quiet time.

Borders Prepares For Launch Of Online Site

Borders online relationship with Amazon.com will end in April when the book retailer will strike out on its own with the launch of its new site.

Chase: 29% Holiday Online Retail Growth

Any interesting report is out today from Chase Paymentech, saying that the online holiday retail sales for 2007 grew by a whopping twenty nine percent.

Retailer Email Increased 45% During Holidays

Retailers increased their email volumes by 45 percent during the holiday season according to the Email Experience Council.

Green Monday Dreamed Up By eBay

Now that we are stuck with Cyber Monday as a designation for the first Monday after Thanksgiving, eBay has promoted the second Monday of December as Green Monday.

Amazon Trumps Wal-Mart On Cyber Monday

Though Wal-Mart dominates the global brick and mortar retail scene, even it had to watch Amazon surpass it in online traffic.

Cyber Monday Spending Hit $733 Million

Merchants affected by Yahoo's system outage on Monday have more reasons to be upset, as US consumers parted with $733 million online for the day.

Yahoo Merchants Toasted By Monday Outage

Customers with credit cards to burn found some of Yahoo's merchants unable to process orders due to problems with the underlying technology.