Will Hurricane Frances Clip Retailers?
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Chico's may be a hot retailer, but its Labor Day weekend looks threatened.
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Hurricane Frances cost Federated Department Stores Inc. about &#36;20 million in lost sales at Florida stores, the retailer said Tuesday.
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Hurricane Frances has lost some of its bluster, but not enough to bring solution providers back to work. Calls were not answered at about a dozen Miami-area solution providers Friday, who no doubt were home bracing for the storm.
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MIAMI - A menacing Hurricane Frances, packing 140 mph wind, crept closer Wednesday to the southeastern United States, and forecasters said Florida - still cleaning up after Charley - was at risk for another hurricane strike as soon as Friday.    As Frances closed on the Bahamas, it was expected to fluctuate in intensity and could become a Category 5 storm with winds of 156 mph or higher, said Jamie Rhome, a meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center in Miami...
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Hurricane Frances is expected to be  less costly for insurers than feared, though high winds and  flooding generated billions of dollars in damage in Florida and  brought the state to a virtual standstill during a three-day  holiday weekend.
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Though high winds and flooding generated billions of dollars in damage in Florida, Hurricane Frances is expected to be less costly for insurers than feared, analysts and industry officials said on Monday.
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Estimates range from $3B to $10B following second major storm to hit Florida within a month. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Losses from Hurricane Frances are now forecast to make it the fifth-costliest storm in US
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From discounters to upmarket department stores, many US retailers have reported lacklustre sales for September. Although the hurricanes which battered much of the east coast of the US during the month were
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Charley, Frances and Ivan. Three major hurricanes. Two assaults on Florida already and possibly a third by next week. Get used to it.
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Initial estimates of damage caused by hurricane Frances to Florida&#39;s $9.1-billion (US) citrus industry were only starting to trickle in yesterday, but market concerns about heavy
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A 24-hour curfew was in force Sunday in this oceanside town in the wake of Hurricane Frances, its 105-mph winds and torrential rain. So why were so many people lined up at the Super Shop grocery to buy sodas and cigarettes and snacks?
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Hurricane Frances could cause $3-6bn in insured losses in the US, less than experts first predicted.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the No. 1  retailer, on Monday said September sales at U.S. stores open at  least a year were tracking in line with its forecast for a 2  percent to 4 percent increase, though it expects Hurricane  Frances will briefly hurt sales in areas hit by the storm.
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Hurricane Frances is now over Florida&#39;s eastern coast. The National Hurricane Centre says conditions are expected to get worse as the dangerous Category 3 storm moves to shore, possibly late Saturday.
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Hurricane Frances weakened and slowed yesterday as it approached Florida. The latest developments prolonged the anxiety among the millions evacuated and raised fears of a long and ruinous drenching over the Labour Day weekend.
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Hurricane Frances weakened as it moved slowly across Florida, causing massive power outages and flooding across the state. The storm is expected to move into the Gulf of Mexico and then cross back into northern
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Hurricane Frances could cause between $2bn and $10bn in insured losses in the US, experts predict as the storm pummels Florida.