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1 hr ago | The Beaumont Enterprise

Hobby Lobby tests birth-control coverage mandate

This closed-on-Sundays craft store partners with evangelical ministries and prints Christian messages in local newspaper ads during holidays.

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Related Topix: Law, Healthcare Law, Arkansas, Whole Foods Market, Grocery

5 hrs ago | KVIA-TV El Paso

Stocks: Calm returns as holiday beckons

Investors are facing a quiet Friday ahead of the holiday weekend as stock markets regain their poise after a fright the previous session.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Apparel, Abercrombie and Fitch

Thu May 23, 2013

Daily Journal

Advance Auto Parts' 1Q profit down nearly 9 pct

Advance Auto Parts says its first-quarter profit fell nearly 9 percent as it experienced softer sales and higher costs.

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Related Topix: Advance Auto Parts, Auto Parts

Reuters

Gap profit soars; Aeropostale first quarter sales plummet

Gap has staged a comeback in the last few years, offering hipper fashions that have found favor again with shoppers that in the interim had flocked to Zara parent Inditex SA , which competes with Gap, said its first quarter same-sales fell 14 percent, blaming poor weather and a tough economy, and reported a loss as it resorted to deep discounts to ... (more)

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Related Topix: Apparel, Aeropostale

CBS News

Gap's first-quarter profits rise 43 percent

Gap Inc. , which owns the Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic clothing chains, reported on Thursday a 43 percent increase in its fiscal first-quarter net income as the company continues to reap benefits from the turnaround plan that it began early last year.

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Related Topix: Apparel, GAP, Old Navy

The Beaumont Enterprise

Sears reports bigger-than-expected 1Q loss

Sears Holdings Corp. reported a steeper-than-expected loss for its first quarter with the beleaguered retailer blaming a cooler spring for falling sales.

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Related Topix: Sears Holdings Corporation, Sears, Hoffman Estates, IL, Wal Mart Stores

CBS News

Big stores nix credit card settlement, file suit

Some of the country's largest retailers, including Target Corp. and Macy's Inc. , on Thursday filed a lawsuit against MasterCard and Visa, rejecting a settlement reached last year over alleged fee fixing.

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Related Topix: Target, MasterCard, Financial Services

Seattle Times

Pepper your wardrobe with 'Gatsby' glitz for less

Baz Luhrmann's big screen adaption of "The Great Gatsby" is shining a spotlight on Roaring Twenties glam fashions, from drop-waist dresses and head scarves to crisp bow ties and spectator shoes.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, The Great Gatsby, Apparel, Brooks Brothers, Watches

KESQ-TV Palm Desert

Abercrombie's plus-size controversy

Baker, who blogs under the name "The Militant Baker" and wears a size 22, changed the brand's A&F logo to "Attractive & Fat" in a mock, black-and-white Abercrombie ad to challenge the line's branding efforts.

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Related Topix: Apparel, Abercrombie and Fitch, Entertainment

Asbury Park Press

Children's Place 1Q net income falls 22 percent

Amanda Manganiello and her mother, Ann Marie, look at T-shirts at The Children's Place store in White Plains, N.Y., in this 2006 file photo.

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Related Topix: Apparel, Childrens Place Retail Stores Inc The, White Plains, NY, Weather

Brandon Sun

Discount retailer Dollar Tree's 1st-quarter net income up 15 per cent on higher sales, margins

Discount retailer Dollar Tree Inc. said Thursday that its net income increased 15 per cent in the first quarter as consumers spent more at its stores, which sell goods for $1 or less.

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Related Topix: Dollar Tree Stores, Chesapeake, VA

Business Journal

Urban Outfitters under fire for products mimicking prescription drug bottles

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has joined 22 other attorneys general in blasting Urban Outfitters for selling products that look like prescription drug bottles.

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Related Topix: Apparel, Urban Outfitters

MarketWatch

Movers & Shakers: Wednesday's movers: Saks rallies for third day

Saks Inc. rallied for a third day Wednesday on reports that it may be window shopping for a new owner, with most analysts generally upbeat about a potential deal.

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Related Topix: Saks, Banking, Financial Services, CitiMortgage, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Investment Services, Cohen Group, Consulting, Saks Fifth Avenue

The Brainerd Daily Dispatch

Birth control coverage up for federal appeal

In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.

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Related Topix: Hobby Lobby Stores, Healthcare Law, Law, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, US News, Abortion, US Supreme Court

WRIC-TV Richmond

Birth control coverage up for federal appeal

Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court for an exemption from part of the federal health care law.

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Related Topix: Hobby Lobby Stores, Healthcare Law, Law

KGWN

Youngest Okla. tornado victims remembered by kin

In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage... Two hundred American former prisoners of war who were taken captive during the Vietnam War are arriving in Southern ... (more)

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Related Topix: Moore, OK, Hobby Lobby Stores, Healthcare Law, Law, US Military, US Navy

Wed May 22, 2013

Bloomberg

U.S. Stocks Fall on Concern Fed Will Scale Back Stimulus

U.S. stocks fell, with benchmark indexes retreating from record highs, as concern grew that the Federal Reserve will scale back its stimulus efforts if the labor market continues to improve.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Saks, Goldman Sachs, Financial Services, Investment Services, HP, Computers, Ben Bernanke, Wyomissing, PA

The Moultrie News

Country comes to town at Roper Rehab

It isn't unusual to hear country music during patient sessions at Roper Rehabilitation Hospital.

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Related Topix: Nashville, TN, Finish Line Inc The, Apparel, Medical University of South Carolina

Seattle Times

Penney secures $2.25B loan as it seeks turnaround

J.C. Penney Co. said Wednesday it has secured a $2.25 billion loan, $500 million more than it had expected, as it tries to stop a collapse in its sales.

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Related Topix: JC Penney, Plano, TX, Canada,

KTKZ-AM Sacramento

Wal-Mart hires Hill & Knowlton executive

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. named Dan Bartlett, most recently president and CEO of the U.S. arm of global business advisory firm Hill & Knowlton Strategies, as its new executive vice president of corporate affairs.

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Related Topix: Wal Mart Stores, Public Relations, Hill and Knowlton, Advertising, George Bush, W., Bentonville, AR

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