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Auto dealers drive May retail sales up past expectations

2013-06-13 08:19:00

Retail sales improved in May as thawing temperatures and more cheerful shoppers caused a boost at car dealerships and home improvement stores, according to government figures. Last month, the gauge rose 0.6% from April to $421.1 billion in sales -- a 4....

Cars, home improvement give April retail sales a boost

2013-05-13 07:57:00

Spring’s arrival late in April gave retail sales a light boost as Americans emerged from hibernation to spend on cars, gardening goods and building supplies. From March to April, sales rose a slight 0.1% after declining a revised 0.5% from...

Swift, hopeful reaction to immigration bill

2013-04-17 10:04:00

WASHINGTON – An eagerly awaited immigration overhaul from a bipartisan group of senators arrived early Wednesday, an 844-page bill that both the political left and right now see as the best chance in decades to achieve fix a broken immigration...

Despite sequestration, U.S. cargo volume to increase 2.3% in March

2013-03-11 12:29:00

Cargo volume at the nation's ports is expected increase in March, despite port slowdowns as a result of automatic federal budget cuts, according to a retail group.� A monthly Global Port Tracker released Monday by the National Retail Federation...

Is another strike looming for the ports of L.A. and Long Beach?

2013-02-08 09:39:00

Bargaining units for a clerical workers' union rejected a tentative labor agreement this week that that ended an eight-day strike that shut down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach late last year. The tentative contract, announced Dec. 4, intially...

National Retail Federation applauds tentative ports labor pact

2013-02-02 10:28:00

The National Retail Federation is applauding a tentative contract agreement between the union that represents 14 East Coast and Gulf coast seaports and an alliance of shipping lines, terminal operators and port associations. The Federal Mediation and...

Port strike in eastern U.S. averted with 30-day contract extension

2012-12-28 10:13:00

The labor contract covering more than 15,000 dockworkers at 14 Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast ports has been extended for 30 more days, heading off a strike that could have begun as early as Sunday. George H. Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation...

What fiscal cliff? Shoppers push up retail sales, prices fall

2013-01-15 08:27:00

Economic prognosticators spent the end of 2012 fretting about looming spending cuts and toxic tax increases. Consumers, however, spent it shopping. Retail sales across the nation rose 0.5% to $415.7 billion in December as Americans put fiscal cliff...

Black Friday shopping hunt for deals starts earlier this year

2012-11-22 21:26:37

Port strike numbers are out to sea

2012-12-05 02:25:00

Big, round numbers always get people's attention. Numbers such as $1 billion, which has been bandied about as the economic loss per day nationally from the eight-day strike that shut down most of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. That figure...

Amazon.com to hire more than 50,000 extra workers for holidays

2012-10-16 10:49:00

Amazon.com, the online retailer that has many brick-and-mortar companies on the defensive, said it will hire more than 50,000 seasonal employees nationwide for the holiday shopping season. That’s more than double the 20,000 full-time workers that...

Best place to trick-or-treat? San Francisco, study says

2012-10-16 08:31:00

Trick-or-treating connoisseurs should head to San Francisco come Halloween for a ghoulish jaunt that involves the least walking, the most candy and the safest streets for kids, according to a new report. Despite its hilly geography, San Francisco tops...

National Retail Federation

2013-04-30 11:15:49

Research from the National Retail Federation shows that more than 179.1 million people will watch this year's Super Bowl.

2013-01-21 00:00:00

The bee is expected to be the No. 5 most popular pet costume in the country this year, according to the National Retail Federation. Find this version by Top Paw, modeled by Teddy Bean, at PetSmart for about $12.

2012-10-09 00:00:00