Economy

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Retail sales were down this holiday season. After a background report, Ray Suarez talks with the vice president of the National Retail Federation; and a retail historian and professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School.

Several major Wall Street firms announced a settlement to end the investigations into corporate scandal. They agreed to pay $1 billion in fines and change the way they do business. Terence Smith discusses the settlement and what it means for…