Universal, a tobacco leaf merchant, fell 1/4, to 26 7/16.
Generally, however, merchants fell short of estimates for October as well as November, Mr. Perkins said, "and that doesn't usually bode well for sales in the holiday period".
But on the Web, Mr. Noonan said, the return rate for women's clothing can approach 40percentt, as online merchants fall short of customers' expectations on color, fit and quality.
If merchant bankers fall behind with their debts, they get to stand under a gorgeous waterfall of public money.
Following the war, Boone worked as a surveyor and merchant, but fell deeply into debt through failed Kentucky land speculation.
Like the former merchant seaman who fell overboard on an Asian voyage and thought he was doomed.
Though the grand old merchant homes are falling apart, Islam's tours take visitors into the courtyards to meet the families now living there.
At the North African harbor, a 155-foot merchant trader rises and falls on the tide as fog and scattered rain blow through.
In news from Asia: While the PC OEM business is good in Taiwan, the merchant motherboard business has fallen off the cliff.
During the 1790s, American merchant vessels began to fall prey to Barbary Pirates in the Mediterranean, most notably from Algiers.
American merchant vessels began to fall prey to Barbary Pirates, most notably from Algiers, in the Mediterranean during the 1790s.
