Black Friday sales are up 8.3 percent over last year's numbers, as retailers took in $10.3 billion the day after Thanksgiving, compared with $9.5 billion in 2006.
Retailers and consumers are turning into real early birds when it comes to post-Thanksgiving shopping. Just hours after most people have put down their Thanksgiving forks, many consumers are shopping online or waiting outside the doors of retailers who are opening long before Friday's dawn.
BERLIN (AP) - The dollar plumbs new depths in thin tradingFriday with record lows against the euro and a 12-year low againstthe yen on speculation that the American credit crisis will lead toanother U.S. interest rate cut.
ASPEN, Colo. (Nov. 22) - A Saudi prince who put a $135 million price tag on his Aspen-area estate has now taken the property off the market because he got no suitable offers, his attorney and agent said.
