NEW YORK (AP) - J.C. Penney Co. reported a 36 percent drop in second-quarter profits Friday and issued a downbeat outlook for the current quarter as shoppers cut back on clothing spending in a tough economy.
Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- J Sainsbury Plc , the U.K.'s third biggest supermarket chain, was cut to ``neutral'' from ``overweight'' by analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co. on concern that sales will worsen as consumers switch to cheaper retailers.
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - Two little girls from New Jersey were reunited with their father yesterday and could be returning home within a few days after being trapped by violence in the Republic of Georgia for two weeks.
Daytona Beach's J.C. Horne and Windermere's Sam Saunders made the cut at the U.S. Amateur after stoke-play rounds Monday and Tuesday in Pinehurst, N.C. At 3-over, Horne finished stroke play tied for 33rd. Saunders, at 4-over, was tied for 47th.
Baton Rouge firefighter J.W. Stewart covers a hole cut in the roof of a home that was the scene of a fatal fire Thursday afternoon on Jackson Avenue. An 84-year-old woman was killed in the fire when she was unable to escape the house.
NEW DELHI: The Centre's appeal to the Jammu agitationists to suspend their stir and agree to talks has failed to cut much ice with the Shri Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti which is unprepared to call off the protest without a clear-cut response over restoration of land for Amarnath pilgrims.
Two little girls from New Jersey have been reunited with their father after being trapped by violence in the Republic of Georgia for two weeks. They expect to be back home in a few days.
Shares of Nordson Corp., a manufacturer of precision dispensing and testing equipment, plummeted Friday after a disappointing fiscal third quarter and below-consensus earnings guidance, and after a Wall Street analyst cut his rating on the stock.
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