Apple shares surge over holidays, while Costco craters

Apple and Amazon.com were the market winners among 12 big retail stocks during the holiday shopping season, but the group overall fell short of the average gain it's posted during the previous decade, signaling that traders were concerned weak consumer spending was likely to mean muted sales.

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