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Advance retail sales grew 0.3% for the month, slightly below the 0.4% Dow Jones estimate.

Research finds the more financially constrained you feel, the less happy you’ll likely be with what you buy.

Harlem Candle Co. sells in Bloomingdale’s and gift shops across the country. When Covid closed stores, founder Teri Johnson decided on a new strategy.

A rise in returns is filling Liquidity Services warehouses with unwanted goods from Amazon and Target and growing liquidation to a $644 billion market

Retail sales for the month rose 3.8% in January, much better than the 2.1% Dow Jones estimate.

In 2011, Tori Gerbig started a side hustle selling clothes on eBay. As the business grew, she quit her job and turned it into a full-time online clothing business, called Pink Lily. Last year, it generated $141 million in gross sales. She shares her best advice to aspiring entrepreneurs.

Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson, the market’s biggest bear, suggests investors are dangerously downplaying a collision between a tightening Fed and slowing growth.

Holiday sales rose at the fastest pace in 17 years, even as shoppers grappled with higher prices, product shortages and a raging new COVID-19 variant in the last few weeks of the season, according to one spending measure.

Those discounts and special sales that once were plentiful at auto dealerships around Black Friday have largely evaporated amid low inventory.

Many independent small businesses are still struggling to recover from the pandemic. Here’s how shoppers can support them this holiday season.

Don’t discount Dollar Tree now that it has passed a price increase on to customers, New Street Advisors Group’s Delano Saporu said.

Bryn Mawr Trust CIO Jeff Mills, a CNBC contributor, recommends a thematic approach to investing.

The Economic Cycle Research Institute’s Lakshman Achuthan warns consumer spending is in a cyclical slowdown, and it will weigh on holiday sales.

Retail sales rose 1.7% in October, both for all items and excluding autos. They both topped than estimates.

Wilmington Trust’s Meghan Shue explains why her firm has been piling into stocks and what she would buy on weakness.

Singles Day in China has a new feel — one where Alibaba and JD are looking to align themselves with Xi Jinping’s goals of “common prosperity” and sustainability.

Supply chain issues are driving early holiday deals as retailers chase anxious consumers. But some experts say gift buying isn’t yet the focus of shoppers.

Consumers spent at a much faster pace than expected in September, defying expectations for a pullback amid pervasive supply chain problems.

Costco is particularly well positioned to withstand supply chain issues, says Nancy Tengler of Laffer Tengler Investments.

Ally Invest’s Lindsey Bell gives her market forecast ahead of a typically strong reporting season.