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Lord & Taylor Considers Stores Outside U.S.

The quintessentially American department store is weighing opening stores outside the United States, possibly in Mexico and Canada, its chairman said.
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your money: For Many, Thrift Shops Are a Wardrobe Essential

As the prices of gasoline and groceries edge higher and debt weighs more heavily, saving money on clothes, shoes and household goods has become increasingly essential for many people.
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More Steps Urged on Interest Rates in China

The government said price controls had limited the cost of many essential items and exports to the United States had weakened.
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Loss of liquidity, not insolvency, caused credit crunch

Did last week mark the beginning of the end of the credit crunch, or merely the end of the beginning? The answer depends on another question, which was much in the news over the weekend: will the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve start lending against mortgages, essentially without penalty and without limit, as the European Central Bank has done since last year? This may seem an esoteric technical question, but it will determine whether the credit crunch can be resolved merely by tweaking the traditional techniques of central banking, or whether vast sums of public money will be required. And the answer to this, in turn, depends on another even more obscure-sounding debate: has the “liquidity crisis” that started last August in the US mortgage market degenerated into a “solvency crisis” for the global banking system as a whole?
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An essential guide to what the housing market surveys really mean

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