Business news for Mon, 24 Dec 2007 & with words doors+trade. 2 news.

RETAILERS are facing their bleakest Christmas trade in years with fewer shoppers coming through the doors and predictions of lower spending.

The international economy faces a year of living dangerously. When the world awakes on New Year’s Day, the hangover that many of us may be suffering will be a minor worry alongside the collective headache inflicted by the cocktail of threats menacing the global outlook.