Retail, First Quarter Earnings | featured news

Retail sales contracted in March for the second time in three months, a sign the American economy may have stumbled at the end of the first quarter.

Macy's reported higher fiscal-first-quarter earnings on solid sales gains and constraints on overhead costs.

Bed Bath & Beyond posted fiscal first-quarter earnings Wednesday of $180.6 million, or 72 cents per share, compared to $137.6 million, or 52 cents per share, last year.

Big Lots posts decline in quarterly profit, Tiffany shows gain.

Amazon.com Inc reported that first-quarter sales rose 38.2 percent, above analysts' forecasts.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says its first-quarter net income rose 10 percent as the world's largest retailer benefited from cost-cutting.