Lowe's Companies Incorporated

As Christmas traditions go, this one's big. Every year, the Proeber family traipses through the fields of central Illinois searching for the perfect Christmas tree before breaking out the saw, tying their selection to the roof of their car and hauling it...

Monday: --October existing-home sales --Earnings: Analog Devices Inc.; Campbell Soup Co.; Donaldson Co.; Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday: --Third-quarter gross domestic product --November consumer confidence --September Case-Shiller home price index --...

Wall Street finished sharply lower yesterday as investors pored over more signs of economic weakness, including a huge round of layoffs in the financial sector. After a turbulent week that sent the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 340 points,...

The stock market is trying to form a bottom, but the economic landscape keeps changing. With the Treasury switching its financial-bailout plans and Congress fighting over a potential rescue package for automakers, expect more wild swings in the market...

Lowe's Cos. Inc. posted better-than-expected third-quarter results Monday, even as profit slid more than 24 percent because shoppers postponed big-ticket purchases amid growing economic uncertainty. The nation's No. 2 home improvement chain said it...

Lowe's Cos. said its third-quarter profit fell 24 percent as consumers postponed home-improvement projects and big-ticket purchases as an all-but-certain recession looms. But despite the grim figures, the results still beat Wall Street's expectations....

From Tribune news services Target Corp. said Monday that it will aggressively cut prices to give consumers bargains during the holiday season, after weak sales of its apparel and home offerings led fiscal third-quarter earnings to fall 24 percent....

Target Corp. said Monday it will aggressively cut prices to give consumers bargains during the holiday season, after weak sales of its apparel and home offerings led third-quarter earnings to fall 24 percent. The discount retailer also said sales in...

CHICAGO (AP) _ Home Depot Inc. gave investors a welcome surprise Tuesday, posting a better-than-expected third-quarter profit and offering Wall Street a second straight day of good news for the battered home improvement sector. But the 31 percent drop in...

The odds of landing a part-time job at department store operator Bealls Outlet Stores Inc. this holiday season are slimmer than getting into Harvard: roughly 1 out of every 45 applicants, compared with about 1 in 15 at the college. From department stores...

Afraid that cash isn't secure even behind the thick walls of banks, more people are turning to something that has protected money since the days of Jesse James and Bonnie and Clyde: safes. The metal vaults are so popular in some parts of the country that...

Sales of freezers are up. That's the news from Mike Goodwin, merchandising director of appliances/food preservation for Lowe's Companies Inc., which operates more than 1,575 home-improvement stores across the U.S. and Canada. Goodwin attributes the rise...