Wednesday, August 17, 2005 5:21 PM PDT
Your Keyword News Alert for [discount]
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BizJournals, Wed, 17 Aug 2005 3:11 PM PDT
Ross reports higher sales and profits http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2005/08/15/daily29.html?from_rss=1
Discount clothing retailer Ross Stores Inc. reported a profit of $42.3 million on sales of $1.2 billion in the second quarter, compared with a profit of $32.2 million on sales of $1 billion in the same period last year.
News Interactive, Wed, 17 Aug 2005 3:41 PM PDT
Retailers reject spending fears http://www.finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,16300927-14334,00.html
DISCOUNT variety chain The Reject Shop and clotheshorse Noni B have bucked a weak retail trading environment to post record results. Shares in The Reject Shop (trs.ASX:Quote,News) surged 17 to an eight-month high of $3.22, after the company posted a 26.5 per cent lift in net profit to $7.1 million.
Beloit Daily News, Wed, 17 Aug 2005 3:13 PM PDT
Snoozing woman had bundle of cash http://www.beloitdailynews.com/articles/2005/08/17/news/news05a.txt
JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) - Police trying to rouse an 87-year-old woman snoozing on a recliner in a discount store on the weekend found $60,000 in cash in her purse while looking for her identification.
Benton Courier, Wed, 17 Aug 2005 2:47 PM PDT
Tuesday Morning store opening on Military Road http://www.bentoncourier.com/articles/2005/08/17/news/96nnews.txt
Tuesday Morning will open a store in Benton at 8 a.m. Tuesday. This is the company's fourth store in the central Arkansas area. The discount retailer reportedly offers first-quality famous-maker decorative home furnishings and gifts.
WCVB TheBostonChannel.com via Yahoo! News, Wed, 17 Aug 2005 2:38 PM PDT
More Inspections Ordered After Bus Catches Fire http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/WCVB/20050817/lo_WCVB/2887014
The state has ordered twice as many random bus inspections after a Chinatown bus heading back to Boston from New York burst into flames on a Connecticut highway Tuesday.
AP via Yahoo! News, Wed, 17 Aug 2005 3:10 PM PDT
Gas Prices' Effect on Auto Sales Mixed http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050817/ap_on_bi_ge/gas_prices_auto_sales_2
Gas stations advertising record-high prices are all around him, but fuel efficiency was the furthest thing from Dave Pongratz's mind as he picked up his new Hummer H3 in this Detroit suburb on Wednesday.
AP via Yahoo! News, Wed, 17 Aug 2005 3:11 PM PDT
Treasurys Fall on Oil Declines, Inflation http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050817/ap_on_bi_ge/bonds_38
Treasury bonds were knocked down Wednesday by reports of higher wholesale inflation and a sharp decline in oil prices.
International Herald Tribune, Wed, 17 Aug 2005 3:04 PM PDT
Germany scrutinizes trading in Daimler http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/17/business/daimler.php
The inquiry, which is expected to last "weeks," will comb through data that brokerages provide daily to Bafin, as the regulator is known.
Fox News, Wed, 17 Aug 2005 4:19 PM PDT
Out There: Chunk of Ice Plunges Through Roof http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166049,00.html
Block of frozen water lands where man had just been sitting; bargain computers lead to stampede; help line turns into sex line.
ABC News, Wed, 17 Aug 2005 3:31 PM PDT
Gas Prices' Effect on Auto Sales Mixed http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=1046378&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
Auto Dealers Mixed on Whether Record Gas Prices Are Affecting Consumers' Car Buying Habits
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