Retail stocks fall;
Retail stocks fell Friday, with decliners including retail heavyweight Wal-Mart Stores Inc., after Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. cut its same-store sales and profit estimates for the world's largest retailer.
Retail sales fell for the tenth month in a row, with a balance of 47% of retailers registering drops in the first two weeks of the year, according to the CBI business group's Distributive Trades Survey.