Home Depot, Target results show retail gloom
(Reuters)
<p><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080520/2008_05_20t065444_450x314_us_homedepot_results.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=4un_MipLO8Ibc_WllOiRmw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="A truck pulls into the parking lot of a Home Depot store in a suburb of Denver, Colorado May 17, 2005. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)" border="0" /> (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080520/bs_nm/homedepot_results_dc)Reuters - Two of the largest U.S. retailers said
on Tuesday that the weak U.S. economy and battered housing
industry were discouraging cash-strapped consumers from making
anything more than basic purchases.</p><br clear="all"/>
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