Hayward police closed Southland Mall on Saturday afternoon after about 200 teenagers and young adults stormed the shopping center and began ransacking stores. The crowd poured out of bleachers, set up in the parking lot outside Macy's, when a...

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The Freaknomics blog has a fun little interview with Jim Cramer. ...

One of our sister publications, Direct, has an insightful report about how retailer Bath and Body Works built a file of 10 million email addresses in less than two years. ...

Real Estate Bloggers noted that funds run by Fidelity Investments, Franklin Resources and Kensington Investment Group all had rough second quarters. The combination of home builders taking a beating, subprime problems and the recent REIT stock...

KKR executives are raising at least $1 billion from investors for an existing KKR-managed hedge fund. The goal is to snap up bargains from some of the $300 billion in junk bonds and high-yield loans weighing on Wall Street banks that have promised...

Recent disclosures include one by RAIT Financial Trust, a commercially focused REIT, which calculated its exposure to American Home Mortgage Investment Corp., a troubled home-mortgage lender, at $95 million. That amount, if written off, is 7% of...

Simple RE recounts some difficulties in assuming a conduit loan...

The Federal Trade Commission inadvertently let slip documents regarding the proposed Whole Foods/Wild Oats merger. ...