holiday shopping

Layoffs soared as the holiday shopping season ended. Still, 2011 was a record year for retail sales, even though the year ended on a weak note for stores.

Last minute shoppers gave merchants a solid lift during the final week before Christmas, according to a report from a mall trade group Wednesday.

The holiday shopping season is wrapping up to be bigger than anyone expected. Now, retailers are holding their breath and hoping consumers will keep spending in the final days before Christmas.

Discover Financial Services says higher spending at the start of the holiday shopping season helped its fourth-quarter profit rise 46 percent.

U.S. stocks jumped as optimism grew that European leaders would come up with a new plan to resolve the region's debt crisis and following a strong start to the holiday shopping season.

After a record-breaking Black Friday, online retailers geared up for Cyber Monday, which has become an undeniably real thing — surprising even the people who invented it.

Wall Street soared at Monday’s opening bell, as investors cheered a strong start to the U.S. holiday shopping season.

On the eve of "Cyber Monday," online retailers reported an even stronger start to the holiday shopping season than brick-and-mortar stores.

Black Friday marks the official start to the holiday shopping season, a time when retailers brace for hordes of deal-seeking shoppers. But spending varies from city to city.

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