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Sales Boost Online Retailers' Shares
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The holiday shopping season was better for online retailers -- though still pretty dismal -- than it was for mall shops, and their stock prices reflected it. The 20 publicly traded Internet retailers gained 17 percent between Nov. 28 and Dec. 28, while the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index lost 3 percent. The leader was Ticketmaster, up 55 percent, followed by Orbitz, up 48 percent. Liberty Entertainment, an online video and commerce firm, was up 35 percent; Netflix, up 22 percent; online jewelry retailer BIDZ.com, up 21 percent; and Amazon, up 16 percent.
