wholesale
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Statistics Canada said the early look at June indicates increases in wholesale, finance and insurance, and retail, partially offset by declines in utilities and agriculture, forestry and fishing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Huo said the "main factors" for the slump were "significant declines" in activity across wholesale trade and monetary financial services, while the real-estate sector was also "below the critical point".
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
PJM is the largest U.S. wholesale power market, covering 13 states and 67 million people.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
The pact represents Peacock’s largest wholesale distribution agreement to date, one that will introduce the service into millions of new homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
There is no dearth of men who understand these things, but these are not the men who order the wholesale drenching of the landscape with chemicals.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Production, exports and wholesales of passenger cars in China all hit fresh highs in November compared with the same month in prior years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
Industries such as transportation and wholesales showed double-digit falls in special payments, the data showed.
From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2023
Consumers have faced sharply higher prices for goods and services this year as businesses deal with an unprecedented jump in wholesales prices.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2021
To some extent, the board split reflected different levels of dependence on the imported supplies that Metropolitan wholesales to the Southland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018
“It will contribute to your fastidious comfort when you come back here to sell your pearls at Tiffany’s or in Maiden Lane, or wherever it is that one wholesales his treasure-trove.”
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh
That’s not the narrative being wholesaled by the financial press and investment pundits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2022
“In a normal situation, there’s some surplus that gets generated when you’re farming,” he said, explaining that the surplus would be wholesaled to other retailers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2021
He has brokered real estate deals in Florida, arranged bank loans in Venezuela, marketed industrial pumps in Thailand, wholesaled shoes in Panama, promoted a building-materials company to Mexican interests and advised transnational financial services firms.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2015
After that, I started a company that wholesaled mobile phones.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2011
Marketing: In our large apple-growing districts the crop is generally wholesaled, either in the orchard or subject to delivery at the railroad, generally in barrels.
From The Apple by Various
Equipment wholesaling and transportation logistics are service industries that saw big jumps in the April data, a sign that higher oil prices are transitioning into a “second-order effect,” Helfstein says.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
Jefferies also expects Sigma to make improvements in its wholesaling business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
After the public sector, the wholesaling, retailing, hotels and restaurants sector showed the strongest regular annual growth rate.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025
Still, redevelopment pressures, driven by manufacturing and wholesaling interests and ultimately high-end development on the outskirts of the area, never went away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
They called it railroading, high finance, banking, wholesaling, real estate, and such things, but the point was that they got it, while she got what was left,—twenty-two cents.
From Burning Daylight by London, Jack
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