What does this year’s Black Friday mean for the owners and managers of retail properties?

With housing prices reportedly reaching roughly same levels they were just before the mid-2000s bubble popped, are we in store for another residential bubble?

Forty-three states and the District of Columbia enjoyed unemployment rate decreases from a year ago, while only three states suffered increases, and four states had no change, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

If a report released by the University of Michigan on Thursday is correct, then the U.S. economy will have reasons to be cheerful in 2016.

The Federal Open Market Committee released the minutes of its Oct. 27-28 meeting which indicated economic strength on the horizon.

Retail sales disappointed in October, with overall sales compared with September up a meager 0.1 percent, according to the Census Bureau.

Now that interest rates might rise next month, prognosticators are gearing up to predict what will happen next.

Despite the recent healthy jobs report and the fact that wages are finally going up, Macy’s believes sales would be lower than last year.

The industry is clearly on track to have its best year in living memory.

According to Bloomberg, the consensus among economists is for an increase of 190,000 jobs in October. If the consensus is right, that would be better growth than in September but not as good as earlier this year or late last year, when job creation was regularly over 200,000.