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...to Fred’s Inc for $950m, pending regulatory approval, “in response to concerns identified by the FTC” during its review....
...Meanwhile, same-store sales advanced 2.2 per cent, ahead of estimates for a 1.9 per cent gain....
...The Tennessee-based company said sales rose 3 per cent from a year earlier to $2.5bn, while profits advanced 2 per cent to $297m ahead of forecasts for $272m....
...The Goodlettsville, Tennessee-based company reported profits of $253m or 84 cents a share, compared with $222.4m, or 72 cents a share, in the prior year period....
...This may complicate life for makers of driverless cars: because of legal uncertainties and hugely variable driving environments, “self-driving” is likely to be offered as an optional setting for decades...
...(WSJ) David Jones has agreed a A$2.15bn (US$2bn) takeover by South African retailer Woolworths, which trumps a merger approach from rival Australian department store group Myer....
...Tennessee, Florida and Georgia....
...in The Big Lebowski (1998), Sulley in Monsters Inc (2001), even Fred Flintstone (a role that makes him wince on mention), Goodman is a combustible mix of aspiring hero and frustrated ordinariness....
...“James v UMG Recordings” is a dispute about how much money musicians should receive from digital downloads of their work....
...In other earnings news, Ross Stores, operator of discount apparel retail stores, met analysts’ expectations, as profits for the third quarter rose 11 per cent on higher sales and improved margins....
...In earnings news, Family Dollar Stores beat expectations as more shoppers turned to the discount chain for bargains....
...press portrayed the law as taking a stand against ‘evil’ handguns,” says Robert Jones, the president of the Kennesaw Historical Society and the owner of a .357 Magnum handgun....
...It has non-food sales of about £6.5bn, according to analyst estimates and plans to open 150 Asda Living stores by 2015 and expand its internet operation....
...Same-store retail sales rose slightly across the board, according to the International Council of Shopping Centres....
...“We found one guy who remembered how Fred Astaire made his belts with our neckties,” says Mr Del Vecchio....
...The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.4 per cent to 12,262.89....
...But they also cautioned that there may not be a simple V-shaped recovery....
...In 1998, Barneys’ creditors took possession of the store and Jones New York bought it in 2004. “It was very painful,” says Pressman. “The worst thing was closing the original store on 17th Street....
...By Friday's close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 0.2 per cent higher at 10,195.01, or 0.8 per cent higher for the week....
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