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Retail sales fall despite kickoff of holiday sales season, longer store hours and deals

Donated clothing doesn't always meet charitable ends. Sometimes, it has another retail life in Africa.

Startup company View the Space, which creates virtual commercial-property tours and collects leasing data for landlords, has landed a $7 million round of venture financing.

Amid the focus on big-box stores and online retailers is a day dedicated to small shops

Many online shoppers got a huge rollback in prices Wednesday after an apparent glitch.

Developers in Farmingdale have broken ground on a mixed-use project called Jefferson Plaza, which will add needed rental units in the Nassau County village.

Today's low interest rates and healthier housing markets are prompting wealthy borrowers to stick with variable-rate mortgages after the fixed-rate period ends.

Retail stocks tend to fare worse than the broader stock market in the period from Thanksgiving to Christmas, research shows.

Blackstone has boosted its investment in Hilton Worldwide not by expanding the empire of company-owned hotels but by renting out its brand names, like Hampton Inn, to franchisees.

For Denmark's Bakkafrost, Rolls-Royce is building a 250-foot ship that will carry salmon from open-ocean fish farms to processing factories

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The frequency and severity of these conflicts is not just political posturing,

The bank says it will commit $15 million to small business lending in the Motor City

Gina Relva

Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services arranged the sale of The Village at Lawrence Station, a four-building, 56-unit apartment complex in the Silicon Valley city of Santa Clara, Calif. The $11.4 million sales price equates to $203,000 per unit.