Family Dollar Stores Incorporated

Monday •August personal income and spending •Earnings: Circuit City Stores Inc.; CMGI Inc.; Walgreen Co. Tuesday •September consumer confidence •July Case-Shiller home price index •Earnings: Pepsi Bottling Group...

More than 18 million tons of general cargo moves through the Port of Hampton Roads each year, and most of those products require at least a short-term stay in Virginia before and after they're on the water. As cargo volume has increased through the...

The back-to-school shopping experience I had this year stuck with me. I'd heard that Wall Street was expecting the season to be a bust. But there I was, in a deep-discount clothing store, in a swarm of buyers, at the end of one of several long lines...

More than a half-million pieces of Chinese-made children's jewelry contaminated with lead are being recalled, it was announced Wednesday. The recalled merchandise involves pieces sold by Family Dollar Stores Inc., pieces sold by Michaels Stores Inc.,...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday announced six more recalls of products tainted with lead paint or metal, raising the total of lead recalls in October to 25 -- the highest monthly total of such recalls in the 30 years that the agency has...

413. Julio Bozano, Brazil, 69, $1.6, banking 413. Heinz-Horst Deichmann, Germany, 78, $1.6, shoes 413. Bennett Dorrance, Arizona, 56, $1.6, inheritance 413. Sidney Frank, New York, 85, $1.6, liquor 413. Donald Gordon, South Africa, 74, $1.6,...

The 400 richest Americans, including U.S. citizens now living abroad, as compiled by Forbes magazine. Following each name is the person's age were available, net worth, hometown and source of wealth. Where more than one name is listed under a number,...