Research
June 23, 2015
Exterior of Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo
By Joe McCarthy
Barring new injections of economic turmoil around the world, luxury purchases are on track to steadily increase in the United States through the rest of 2015, according to a new report by Shullman Research Center.
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