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Black Friday Sales Reflect US Consumer Confidence

Poonam Goyal, Head and Senior E-Commerce & Athleisure Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence

29-Nov-23 07:30

Black Friday Sales Reflect US Consumer Confidence

We look at the health of the US retail sector on the back of the biggest shopping event in the calendar. Over the weekend, inflation-weary American consumers were coaxed by various discounts happening over Black Friday through to Cyber Monday. Poonam Goyal, Head and Senior E-Commerce & Athleisure Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence shares with us what US consumers were buying and which players have been benefiting from this.

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Produced by: Moh Heng Ying

Presented by: Shazana Mokhtar, Anwar Mahbob, Philip See


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Categories:  economy

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