Bloomberg Retail sales disappointed in the UK last month as Britons facing higher household bills reined in their spending after splurging on Christmas festivities. Total retail sales rose by 4.2% year-on-year in January, around half the pace in December and down from 11.9% growth a year earlier, the British Retail Consortium and consultancy KPMG said in a report on Tuesday. ...

  Bloomberg Apple Inc.’s latest iPhones are selling at discounts of more than $100 in China, an unusually steep price cut just months after launch that suggests dwindling demand for even its highest-end devices. JD.com Inc. and state carrier China Mobile Ltd. are among the retailers taking 800 yuan ($118) off the iPhone 14 Pro range over 11 days. Retailers ...

  Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s Daraz group is cutting 11% of jobs to weather a slump in online commerce, joining a growing roster of tech names retrenching to weather a global downturn. The Pakistani company, which Alibaba acquired from Rocket Internet in 2018, has quintupled active shoppers to more than 15 million over the past five years. But in ...