The Utah Jazz needed overtime while the San Antonio Spurs rolled to a rout Sunday as they squared both Western Conference series in the National Basketball Association playoffs.
Deron Williams scored 29 points with 14 assists for the Jazz, who blew a sizeable fourth-quarter lead but eked out the 123-115 overtime triumph over the Los Angeles [...]
Greater Sacramento’s home values have declined 30 percent since the peak of the housing market in fourth-quarter 2005, according to a real estate Web site.
And almost 70 percent of families in the four-county region who bought their homes in 2006 have negative equity, one of the highest rates in the nation but far from the [...]
Heading a home improvement chain during the worst housing slump in decades is no picnic. Just ask Frank Blake, who’s just marked his first year as chief executive of Home Depot. The Atlanta company’s earnings and share price have suffered amid the drumbeat of bad news about housing and mortgages.
But Blake also has had some [...]
Wal-Mart and Home Depot sneezed yesterday. Will the economy catch a cold?
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Home Depot said its earnings for the year would fall because of the weak housing market, a forecast that alarmed Wall Street.
The Home Depot Inc. (HD, NYSE, 12-month range $33.80-$42.01) is a home improvement retailer that operates approximately 1,800 stores in 49 states, including Hawaii. It also has stores in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Mexico and Canada.
The recent turmoil in the credit markets and the weakness in the housing market are affecting Home Depot’s [...]
The weak U.S. housing market continued to hammer at The Home Depot Inc.s bottom line in the second quarter.
The Atlanta-based home improvement retailer (NYSE: HD) recorded net income of $1.6 billion on $22.2 billion in sales, compared with net income of $1.9 billion on $22.6 billion in sales in the second quarter [...]
The Lowe Companies reported a higher-than-expected second-quarter profit and a gain in market share on Monday, saying that sales trends were improving in some regions despite the soft housing market.
Lowes sees pockets of strength, and I think that’s a bullish signal because lots of investors feared that nobody could pinpoint the bottom of this housing [...]
CHILDRENS health was on business minds amid toy recalls and changes to nutritional advertising standards, while retail sales, hedge funds and a big stock issue by a high-tech company got Wall Streets attention.
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Soon, Nickelodeon characters like SpongeBob SquarePants and others will not be allowed to appear on junk food products.
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