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The Buckle Inc. said Thursday that its sales at stores open at least a year rose 7.4 percent in January on strong sales of jeans shoes and other casual apparel.

One of the key metrics that Warren Buffett likes to look at when evaluating a business is its return on equity.

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It was another record holiday season for online retailers, as measured by the 2011 Chase Paymentech Pulse Index.

But merchants relied on heavy discounting to get shoppers to buy in a challenging economy, raising concern about what it will take to get them to spend again in coming months.