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• Analysts Raise Amazon Price Targets as Margins Surprise

  

  Amazon.com's better-than-expected profit margins surprised Wall Street, prompting at least five brokerages to raise their price targets on the world's largest Internet retailer's stock on Wednesday.

• Barnes & Noble Plans to Reduce Outlets Over the Decade: Report

  

  Barnes & Noble expects to shut down as many as a third of its retail stores over the next decade, the chief executive of its retail group told The Wall Street Journal.

• Death of Gift Cards?

  

  Retailers should be buzzing right now with holiday gift card redemptions. But, there's early evidence retailers aren't getting much of a boost from gift cards this year, according to NBG Market Analyst Brian Sozzi.

• Retail Sales Winners & Losers

  

  The latest batch of retail sales reports shed light on who the retail winners are right now.

• There's a Secret Behind All Those Christmas Catalogs

  

  You may think catalogs are only for your grandma so she can complete her holiday shopping, but many retailers will disagree.

• Google Struggles to Unseat Amazon as the Web’s Most Popular Mall

  

  Google and Amazon are waging a war to become the pre-eminent online mall. And e-commerce sites large and small are caught in the cross-fire, the New York Times reports.