Mastercard: US holiday retail sales rise 8.5% as online shopping booms – Reuters By anilpanchal7 RetailSales RiskAppetite NewsTrading UnitedStates
concerning the COVID-19 variant linked to South Africa, Reuters shared a positive update from the global payment network Mastercard.
Mastercard’s SpendingPulse also mentioned, “US e-commerce sales jumped 11% in this year's holiday shopping season, yet again underscoring the COVID-19 pandemic's role in transforming customers' shopping habits.” If not otherwise explicitly mentioned in the body of the article, at the time of writing, the author has no position in any stock mentioned in this article and no business relationship with any company mentioned. The author has not received compensation for writing this article, other than from FXStreet.
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