Years of dithering has given Draghi a QE dilemma

If the Swiss National Bank can’t stand the heat about to emerge from the European Central Bank’s monetary kitchen, Mario Draghi must be cooking something explosive, right? That, at least, is what many in the market assume – that Draghi has persuaded the doubters and the ECB will serve full-blown quantitative easing on a colossal scale next week.

Bricks-and-mortar sales edge lower at start of holiday season; online surges: Data

(Reuters) - U.S. shoppers spent slightly less money at brick-and-mortar stores on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday than across the same two days in 2013, while online sales surged to record highs, data showed on Saturday.