LVMH owns luxury brands from Louis Vuitton to Moet champagne and it now plans to sell watches. It will acquire a major piece of Italian jeweler Bulgari for $5.2 billion. Stephen Beard explains.

Betting on American consumers and rebounding property prices, private equity investor Blackstone Group is to buy nearly 600 shopping centers.

Procter & Gamble announced higher prices as rising raw material costs roil household names in the household products market.

Kai Ryssdal talks to Kate Betts about the return of menswear-for-women and minimalism to today's catwalks.

Higher fuel and food costs pushed up wholesale prices last month. Steve Chiotakis speaks with analyst Peter Cohan this morning to get more information on these numbers.

Borders Group, the second largest bookseller in the country, has turned the page into Chapter 11 bankruptcy today. The company announced its plans to close almost 200 stores and drastically cut its staff. Eve Troeh reports.

Jeremy Hobson speaks to Richard DeKaser, economist at the Parthenon Group, about today's inflation numbers from the U.S. Labor Department.

The U.S. Labor Department announced today that the producer price index rose more the 3.5 percent over the past year. Consumers are already feeling the jump in energy prices at the pump, as David Wyss explains.