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After a wild third quarter, the market seems to have stabilized a bit this week, in spite of a late Friday drop. With little macro-data news, investors turned their focus to Europe's debt crisis and third-quarter earnings season. Company-specific news drove stocks; here's a closer look at some of the S&P 500's most notable movers.

Sofia Vergara is hot, but is she too hot for Kmart? The 38-year-old bombshell and break-out star of ABC's "Modern Family" is launching a line of apparel at the discount chain, targeted to young, contemporary women. Young has a broad definition at Kmart. According to John Goodman, executive vice...

Sears Holdings has become the latest retailer to launch an online movie-download service. The owner of Sears and Kmart is using the same delivery platform as Best Buy, Sonic Solutions's RoxioNow. Will Sears's new service deliver anything more than a "me too"?

Sears (SLHD) will open toy shops in 85 stores in key markets in a bid to attract shoppers in time for the holiday season. "We have a very aggressive plan for growing our toy business," Julia Fitzgerald, chief marketing officer for Sears' toy business told Reuters. Sponsored Links The company...

It's sad to watch the demise of Sears and Kmart. The stores near me have empty parking lots, nothing to sell and no customers. Last week, Sears Holdings Corp. opened its own commercial real estate business under the name SHCRealty.com to sell or lease its thousands of both vacant and operating...

Sears may be allowing brands like Craftsman to be sold in rival stores, but there's at least one product category being re-emphasized. And it has nothing to do with a softer side. Sears is aggressively building its electronics business, an area that people haven't traditionally associated with...

Sears is unveiling a new payment option for customers: an enhanced Sears credit card. Giving their branded store card a facelift, Sears says it added more retail value to carrying a Sears card. One of the most noteworthy features: access to your credit score. Sears is the first major retailer to...

Retailers may be seeing some improvement in their businesses, but they have one big challenge ahead: A lot of their customers are still out of work. So Kmart has come up with a novel way to hang on to those customers until they're back at work and spending freely by giving them discounts now. The...

Five years ago, Eddie Lampert was seen as the next Warren Buffett. Having gained control of bankrupt retailer Kmart Corp. in 2003, the businessman snapped up Sears. Roebuck & Co. for $11 billion. Wall Street hailed the combination, expecting big things from Lampert. "Sears has its own $2.7...