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The board of Xstrata approves a merger with Glencore. (Reuters) A U.S. appeals court says a lower court should reexamine a…
Worker productivity is among the most critical measurements used when evaluating businesses and national economies. One way to measure productivity…
In 2010, U.S. firms hired an estimated 627,000 temporary workers to help meet demand for customer service, package handling and…
According to today’s report from the U.S. Census Bureau, retail and food services sales in August rose 0.9% month-over-month and…
Samsung beats Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in an intellectual property case in Japan. (Reuters) The CEOs of Apple and Google…
Several retailers are announcing August same-store sales today, and the reports are generally good. The good results are pushing share…
Wikimedia CommonsBloomberg TV has been running a special this morning about the poor turnaround that Ron Johnson has engineered at…
Back in February, J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) signed a contract with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) to…
Saks Inc. (NYSE: SKS) reported an adjusted second-quarter net loss of $0.05 and $704 million in revenues before markets opened…
Wikimedia CommonsOn Friday, J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP) reported very disappointing second-quarter results, reporting a loss of 37 cents a share…
Kohl’s Corp. (NYSE: KSS) opened higher this morning after the company posted a better-than-expected second-quarter profit as cost cutting offset…
News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS) takes a $2.85 billion write-down, mostly on its publishing properties, as it prepares to spin them…
The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning following on softness in European markets and a mixed close…
Macy’s Inc. (NYSE: M) reported second-quarter adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.67 and $6.12 billion in revenue before markets…
The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning on a report from Europe that German chancellor Angela Merkel…
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