The retailers' performance will give fresh perspectives into the health of brick-and-mortar retail and the strength of buyer sentiment in the United States.
Services prices excluding energy rose 2.9 percent in the year through April, but if you also remove rents they were up 2.3 percent, according to consumer price index data published Thursday by the Labor Department.
Rents in Queens dropped 12 percent from a year earlier, to a median of $2,646 a month after landlord giveaways were subtracted, according to a new report.