The economic slowdown has begun to take its toll on shopping center REITs. Retailers are hurting as consumers cut back on spending. Firms are opening fewer stores and increasing store closings. As a result, vacancies adding up and helped drive...

Nearly a year after it began, the credit crunch gripping financial markets is no closer to resolution. The losses are too large for the market to right, says Sam Chandan, chief economist with New York City-based Reis Inc. Already, the credit...

In March on Long Island, N.Y., a man was arrested and removed from a mall when he wouldn't remove an anti-war shirt he was wearing. Now local protest groups have initiated a “Summer 2008 Stop the War Long Island Mall Tour.” So far the protests —...