Two of Britain's biggest clothing retailers reported lower annual profits and weaker recent trading on Tuesday as turbulence in financial markets adds to the pressure on shoppers from high food and fuel costs.

Amman, July 20, 2008: The Arab social Web shopping portal, SouqElArab.com has partnered with eJilbab.com, which offers a wide variety of Islamic and Middle Eastern Apparel, to launch the new category of Islamic Clothing on SouqElArab.com.

SHE, a new upscale clothing boutique in Bloomfield Township, certainly looks the part, with women's clothing in various shades of black and gray hanging not on those messy rounders you see in department stores, but in recessed cubbies along the walls, ki

Indians thronged stores for last-minute shopping on Tuesday for the Hindu festival of lights, largely ignoring the global financial crisis that has slowed down the economy.

The holiday shopping season is still months away, but already economists are predicting that it could even be worse than last year -- which is to say, disastrous. Soaring gas and food prices, a slumping housing market and a falling stock market have depre