This holiday season, J.C. Penney (JCP) CEO and Chairman Myron E. Ullman III is armed with a lineup of exclusive fashion brands he helped bring to the department store chain, and he's ready to battle

The US Commerce Department said retail sales rose 1.4% in October, surpassing the forecast 0.9% increase, but look for downbeat numbers when Sears Holdings (SHLD) reports third-quarter earnings Thurs

Friday’s successful launch of Dollar General’s (DG) IPO suggests the recession is a good time for deep discounters, or stores that offer rock-bottom prices to cash-strapped shoppers.Dolla

Equities ended mixed in unusually tight trading. Buffett was a buffer against broader declines with his big railroad bet, but a downgrade of the semiconductor sector left Intel (INTC) (-2.68%) e

The US economy appears to face a classic chicken-or-the-egg conundrum: The economy is slow because consumers aren’t spending, and consumers aren’t spending because the economy is slow, gi

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Photo by Andrzej Grygiel/AFP/Getty Images “U2 were never dumb in business,” Bono told music journalist Michka Assayas in the book Bono. “We don’t

As cheap and fashion-forward retailer Forever 21’s stores grow in size and number, so do the company’s legal woes.The Los Angeles-based chain is due to open a 90,000-square-foot store in

The Good: Labor Practices American Apparel (APP) has been lauded for its sweatshop free, “Made In Downtown L.A.” production, a soup-to-nuts system where everything from knitting and dyein

Last April, when newspaper journalist Nathalie Atkinson wrote about the marked similarities between a jacket from a small Canadian design group and one from an international mega-brand, a minor storm