Consumer companies rose amid mixed signals on the outlook for holiday sales.

Online megastore Amazon.com rallied, testing all-time highs, amid optimism about digital sales on Black Friday.

Kohl's cut its sales projection for the year, citing lower traffic as its incoming chief executive seeks to revamp the department-store chain.

Best Buy's chief executive warned that customers would largely bear the brunt of higher costs from Donald Trump's new tariff pledges.

Sales of newly built homes in the U.S. plunged 17% to an annual rate of 610,000 in October from a revised 738,000 in the prior month, reflecting a slowdown in activity in the southern states, following major hurricanes.

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city house-price index rose 0.2% in September from the previous month, as the pace of home-price increase in the 20 largest U.S. cities levels off due to elevated mortgage rates and scant supply.

Discounter Burlington Stores said a tariff war with China could initially hurt the company because a substantial portion of its clothes are made in China.

Write to Rob Curran at rob.curran@dowjones.com

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