Inside This Issue - Opinion

Carrefour alters urban retailing

At a time when retailers are increasingly focusing attention on the urban dweller and city worker, no company has been more aggressive than Carrefour, the $103 billion retailer that is the world’s second-largest, behind only Walmart.

Execs call for action to avert fiscal cliff

Business leaders have come forward at a crucial moment in an effort to help shape a national consensus on what to do about the looming fiscal cliff, a combination of hundreds of billions of dollars in tax hikes and spending cuts that will automatically take effect on January 1 if President Obama and Congress fail to ­intervene.