21.   It provides holiday information, including sales data, retail news headlines and a consumer mood survey about holiday shopping.

22.   It would not release sales data for its eight New York area superstores.

23.   Japan-based World Company and Spain-based Zara are fashion retailers whose merchants systematically examine early sales data to estimate future demand for various products.

24.   Mazda and Volkswagen did not publicly release their sales data until the following day.

25.   Neither did the market find much inspiration from other economic news Thursday -- jobless claims and chain store sales data.

26.   Official sales data is available only through August.

27.   On Friday, the Producer Price Index and retail sales data for October will be reported.

28.   On Thursday, retail sales data will be reported for November.

29.   Prices were hurt in part by retail sales data that suggested that consumers were stepping up their buying as the holidays approached.

30.   Publishers will also be eager to publish more books like it, since best-seller lists also stand in for industrywide sales data.