Best Buy continues to do interesting things. It has its Geek Squad service that by all accounts has been a rousing success. It has its deal with Apple allowing it to sell a wide array of Apple products in its stores. Recently it has begun dabbling...
The Commerce Department released its monthly figures today. Sales were down 0.3 percent from July and up 1.6 percent compared with last August. Bloomberg analyzed the results. ...
Falling gasoline prices are certainly good news for consumers, the main reason economists expect the University of Michigan to report a slight improvement in its consumer-sentiment index, also due Friday. But gas prices are still 30% higher than a...
The investment bank also said that it would spin off the majority of its remaining commercial real estate holdings into a new public company. And it confirmed plans to sell a majority of its investment management division in a move that it expects...
The Wall Street Journal is taking a rather negative view of the retail real estate development pipeline. The data they are citing comes from Property & Portfolio Research Inc., perhaps the most bearish of the major real estate data providers. Data...
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - About 20 janitors are staging a one-day strike at Park Meadows Mall in suburban Denver. The Service Employees International Union went on strike Tuesday. The union says the mall's cleaning contractor has been...
Centro Properties Group, the shopping mall owner seeking a debt extension to stay in business, canceled the sale of a Sydney shopping center after failing to find a buyer. No ``satisfactory offers'' were received for Centro Bankstown before the...
