General Growth Properties Inc. has paired with Brookfield Office Properties Inc. to bid for an expensive New York building in what could mark the No. 2 U.S. mall owner's entry into a new segment of the retail real estate market, according to two sources familiar with the deal.

Luxury spending bellwether Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF), which recently announced its 12th dividend increase in the past 11 years, is scheduled to report its first-quarter fiscal 2013 results Tuesday, May 28, before the markets open. Growth has slowed in recent quarters for luxury retail stocks such as Tiffany.

The main development in the foreign change market over the past week has been the short squeeze of the yen, and to a lesser extent, the Swiss franc. The move coincided with a backing up in JGB yields, with the 10-year approaching the 1.0% threshold, a nearly three-fold increase since the BOJ announced its more aggressive monetary stance in early ...

Here's the beef: Enjoy the Memorial Day grilling, because retail beef prices are widely expected to set new records in coming weeks.

Visa and MasterCard, facing opposition from retail groups to a settlement over transaction fees, asked a judge to rule that their practices for setting the fees aren't anticompetitive.