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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/business/industries/retail business Business - Retail en-us Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:38:47 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/business/industries/retail http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_bi_ge/us_limited_brands_dividend ap/20100205/us_limited_brands_dividend AP business Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:38:47 GMT AP - Clothing retailer Limited Brands Inc. says it will pay a quarterly dividend of 15 cents per share. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_bi_ge/us_overstock_accounting ap/20100205/us_overstock_accounting AP business Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:43:15 GMT AP - Internet retailer Overstock.com says it's recalculating more financial statements because of accounting errors that have already prompted a review by federal regulators. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100204/bs_nm/us_usa_retailsales nm/20100204/us_usa_retailsales Reuters business Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:59:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100204/bs_nm/us_usa_retailsales"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100204/i/r1369928378.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=lMjXWuub24ysQGp9KXjOpw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="People shop at Target in New York, December 18 , 2009. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Top U.S. retail chains ended their fiscal year with better-than-expected January sales, but the current first quarter could be tougher if consumers overspent during the holiday season.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100204/bs_nm/us_usa_retailsales"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100204/i/r1369928378.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=lMjXWuub24ysQGp9KXjOpw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="People shop at Target in New York, December 18 , 2009. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_bi_ge/us_dollar_general_jobs ap/20100204/us_dollar_general_jobs AP business Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:24:05 GMT AP - Discount retailer Dollar General says it will add 5,000 jobs as it opens 600 new stores over the next 12 months. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_bi_ge/us_retail_sales_glance ap/20100204/us_retail_sales_glance AP business Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:38:50 GMT AP - Here is a summary of how sales at stores open at least a year changed in January for selected major chains in four key retail sectors: department stores and discount, drug and clothing chains. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_bi_ge/us_aeropostale_sales ap/20100204/us_aeropostale_sales AP business Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:45:13 GMT AP - Preppy teen retailer Aeropostale Inc. said a key sales measure rose 6 percent in January. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_bi_ge/apfn_us_abercrombie___fitch_sales ap/20100204/apfn_us_abercrombie___fitch_sales AP business Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:31:10 GMT AP - Preppy teen apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch on Thursday posted a surprising 8 percent increase in January sales in stores open at least one year, helped by a gift-card promotion and winter clearance sale. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gymboree_sales ap/20100204/us_gymboree_sales AP business Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:27:30 GMT AP - Gymboree Corp. said Thursday that a key sales figure slipped 2 percent in its fiscal fourth quarter, but the children's apparel retailer lifted its quarterly profit outlook for the second time in less than a month as its net sales improved. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gymboree_cfo ap/20100204/us_gymboree_cfo AP business Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:23:53 GMT AP - Children's apparel retailer Gymboree Corp. said Thursday that Blair Lambert will retire from his role as chief financial officer after the third quarter ends. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_bi_ge/us_wet_seal_january_sales ap/20100204/us_wet_seal_january_sales AP business Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:08:32 GMT AP - Teen clothing retailer The Wet Seal Inc. said Thursday that a key sales measurement fell in January, but the company raised its profit forecast for the fourth quarter. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_bi_ge/us_urban_outfitters_sales ap/20100204/us_urban_outfitters_sales AP business Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:20:57 GMT AP - Urban Outfitters said Thursday that January retail sales at stores open more than a year grew 4 percent. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_bi_ge/us_the_buckle_sales ap/20100204/us_the_buckle_sales AP business Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:45:43 GMT AP - Teen apparel retailer Buckle Inc. on Thursday posted an unexpected 1.2 percent drop in January sales at stores open more than a year. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_bi_ge/us_citi_trends_sales ap/20100203/us_citi_trends_sales AP business Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:39:42 GMT AP - Bargain clothing retailer Citi Trends Inc. said Wednesday that sales at stores open at least one year fell 8.1 percent in January as bad weather closed some stores. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_bi_ge/us_stocks__bad_is_good ap/20100203/us_stocks__bad_is_good AP business Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:22:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_bi_ge/us_stocks__bad_is_good"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100203/capt.d9ea8da66ca24d6aa88f689a806ee1e6.stock_squeeze_gfx965.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=LiYBjgUGxvZvAPOE3PJsQA--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Graphics shows stock prices and percentage of shares held by short seller for Netflix and MarineMax" border="0" /></a>AP - Americans are cutting back on luxuries, but you wouldn't know it from the shares of boat retailer MarineMax. This seller of everything from tiny Boston Whalers to 100-foot Hatteras yachts hasn't made a dime in two years, and analysts don't expect it to do so for at least another.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_bi_ge/us_stocks__bad_is_good"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100203/capt.d9ea8da66ca24d6aa88f689a806ee1e6.stock_squeeze_gfx965.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=LiYBjgUGxvZvAPOE3PJsQA--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="photo" title="Graphics shows stock prices and percentage of shares held by short seller for Netflix and MarineMax" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100203/bs_nm/us_walmart nm/20100203/us_walmart Reuters business Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:27:05 GMT Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is cutting 300 jobs at its headquarters in northwest Arkansas as Chief Executive Mike Duke scours the company for ways to cut costs and make the world's biggest retailer more efficient. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100203/bs_afp/eueurzoneeconomysales afp/20100203/eueurzoneeconomysales AFP business Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:09:09 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100203/bs_afp/eueurzoneeconomysales"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100203/capt.photo_1241421509642-1-0.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=_LCSLt8lpQVDeOSmUAVRiA--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Shoes and boots are on display in the western German city of Duesseldorf in March. Retail sales in the 16-nation eurozone were flat in December, contrary to market expectations of a gain, Eurostat statistics office data showed(DDP/AFP/File/Henning Kaiser)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Retail sales in the 16-nation eurozone were flat in December, contrary to market expectations of a gain, Eurostat statistics office data showed Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100203/bs_afp/eueurzoneeconomysales"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100203/capt.photo_1241421509642-1-0.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=_LCSLt8lpQVDeOSmUAVRiA--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="photo" title="Shoes and boots are on display in the western German city of Duesseldorf in March. Retail sales in the 16-nation eurozone were flat in December, contrary to market expectations of a gain, Eurostat statistics office data showed(DDP/AFP/File/Henning Kaiser)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_citigroup ap/20100202/as_japan_citigroup AP business Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:51:03 GMT AP - Citigroup Inc. is ready to start growing again in Japan. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/bs_afp/germanyeconomyretailsales afp/20100202/germanyeconomyretailsales AFP business Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:53:55 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/bs_afp/germanyeconomyretailsales"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100202/capt.photo_1265107997687-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=105&q=85&sig=QKsBrnwX8yUaGOsl0wxe7g--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="A woman walks past a shop window displaying a sale sign at a shopping mall in Berlin on January 7. German retail sales fell 1.8 percent in 2009, final figures showed, better than a preliminary estimate of a 2.0 percent drop given last month, the national statistics office said.(DDP/AFP/File/Timur Emek)" border="0" /></a>AFP - German retail sales fell by 1.8 percent last year, final figures released Tuesday by the national statistics service showed, the biggest decline since euro notes and coins were introduced in 2002.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/bs_afp/germanyeconomyretailsales"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100202/capt.photo_1265107997687-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=105&q=85&sig=QKsBrnwX8yUaGOsl0wxe7g--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="photo" title="A woman walks past a shop window displaying a sale sign at a shopping mall in Berlin on January 7. German retail sales fell 1.8 percent in 2009, final figures showed, better than a preliminary estimate of a 2.0 percent drop given last month, the national statistics office said.(DDP/AFP/File/Timur Emek)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/bs_nm/us_usa_retail nm/20100202/us_usa_retail Reuters business Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:55:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/bs_nm/us_usa_retail"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100202/i/r737917683.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=Ybhe8vDRUlLeHEvhx.5jEw--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="A woman walks past a retail store in the fashion district of New York, January 14, 2010. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid" border="0" /></a>Reuters - January sales at top U.S. retail chains should rebound into positive territory from last year's decline as shoppers redeemed holiday gift cards and retailers avoided drastic clearance sales.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/bs_nm/us_usa_retail"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100202/i/r737917683.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=Ybhe8vDRUlLeHEvhx.5jEw--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="A woman walks past a retail store in the fashion district of New York, January 14, 2010. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100201/bs_afp/useconomyconsumerincomespending afp/20100201/useconomyconsumerincomespending AFP business Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:28:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100201/bs_afp/useconomyconsumerincomespending"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100201/capt.photo_1265034425796-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=hfvJGVOvUyaZ6y57VOLVaA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Shoppers carry bags as they walk through downtown San Francisco on January 14. US consumer spending edged up 0.2 percent in December, the critical holiday shopping month, government data showed, highlighting sluggish growth in the key driver of economic activity.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US consumer spending edged up 0.2 percent in December, the critical holiday shopping month, government data showed Monday, highlighting sluggish growth in the key driver of economic activity.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/retail/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100201/bs_afp/useconomyconsumerincomespending"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100201/capt.photo_1265034425796-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=hfvJGVOvUyaZ6y57VOLVaA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="Shoppers carry bags as they walk through downtown San Francisco on January 14. US consumer spending edged up 0.2 percent in December, the critical holiday shopping month, government data showed, highlighting sluggish growth in the key driver of economic activity.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)