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As a shorter holiday-shopping home stretch this year kicks into gear, more retailers — including Foot Locker Inc. and Victoria’s Secret & Co. — report this week, likely offering more detail about consumer spending appetites as analysts narrow their focus on individual successes and failures from chain to chain.

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Oil futures fell Friday, booking weekly and monthly losses after a cease-fire this week between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah helped soothe remaining worries over a wider conflict that could threaten crude supplies.

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If retail stocks decline over the two trading days after Thanksgiving, it could be time to buy them.

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President-elect Donald Trump has already begun to captivate financial markets with his unorthodox negotiating style, as evidenced by the reaction to his Monday night threat to impose 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada and a surcharge tariff of 10% on China.

When Kohl’s Corp. on Monday announced it was getting a new chief executive next year, investors got suspicious. On Tuesday, the department-store chain confirmed those suspicions, reporting results that missed expectations and sending shares sharply lower.

Trump’s threatened tariffs on Canada and Mexico may boost inflation in the U.S., but there’s still “huge uncertainty” around macroeconomic forecasts, according to Deutsche Bank Research.

Chinese companies had been avoiding stateside IPOs due to geopolitical tensions, but now they have fresh reason to consider U.S. markets.

President-elect Donald Trump has assembled what might be called a team of rivals on economic policy. But investors should look no further than Trump himself when it comes to a key part of his agenda: tariffs.

U.S. and global benchmark crude prices settled mixed after a cease-fire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah eliminated much of the remaining risk premium around a wider Middle Eastern conflict.

Kohl’s Corp. on Monday said Tom Kingsbury would step down as its chief executive in January and that it would bring aboard a digitally-focused veteran of Walmart Inc. and Michaels to lead the department-store chain, as it deals with enduring consumer wariness over higher prices.