Jones Apparel Group Incorporated

With Black Friday just around the corner, two new forecasts Wednesday pointed toward a tough holiday season for retailers and offered evidence that consumers simply may not be in a spending mood. Shares of several retailers dropped sharply, as...

Remember that 936-point gain in the Dow Jones industrial average Monday? It's now mostly gone. On Wednesday, fear that the U.S. and other nations are sliding into a severe recession trumped investor relief over the banking system bailout, sending the Dow...

Monday: -- Earnings: Administaff Inc.; Brown & Brown Inc.; Cephalon Inc.; Charles River Laboratories International Inc.; General Growth Properties Inc.; Hub Group Inc.; Loews Corp.; Mercury General Corp.; Priceline.com Inc.; Yum Brands Inc. Tuesday: --...

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Robin Howe, the designer of a line of clothes from Calvin Klein, was scouting fabrics in Paris earlier this month when her cell phone rang. It was her office in New York with a bulletin. At a Bloomingdale's in California, a woman shopping for something...

For a woman seeking style without sticker shock, the choices in the last couple years were limited -- lots of low-rise pants and flimsy, navel-baring tops. But this spring, clothing designers are falling over each other with new well-priced collections...

Sears, Roebuck and Co. reported a "disappointing" $61 million loss for the third quarter and warned its year-end numbers would fall short of earlier forecasts--surprise announcements that drove the retailer's stock price down almost 9 percent on Thursday....

When Sears, Roebuck and Co. bought Lands' End in 2002, the retailer explained that the preppy clothing line had a strong following across several key categories. Two years later, Sears is scaling back the brand for children, recognizing that parents...