Investing in higher - yielding, lower - rated, floating - rate loans and debt securities involves greater risk of default, which could result in loss of principal — a risk that may be
heightened in a slowing economy.
Washington, D.C. — According to the Triversity Top 100 Retailers, a ranking based on an annual survey and published
in the July issue of locally based National Retail Federation's STORES magazine, the nation's top retailers strived
in 2000 to reinvent themselves
in the face of
heightened competition and a
slowing economy.