ASOS profit warning spreads Christmas retail gloom
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LONDON (Reuters) - Online fashion group ASOS fuelled a Christmas crisis in Britain's retail industry with a profit warning highlighting a major downturn in trading last month, sending its shares 39 percent lower and unnerving rivals.The warning from ASOS, whose shares fell close to a four-year low, showed that even previously high-flying online-only clothing retailers were not immune to a deterioration in consumer sentiment.Stocks in other British clothing groups fell on fears of poor trading..