Federated reported a loss of $69 million for the four weeks that ended on Feb. 2.

The discount retailer reported income of $126.1 million, or 63 cents a share, for the 13 weeks ended Oct. 28, up from $110.1 million, or 54 cents a share, in the corresponding period in 1987.

Barnes & Noble reported revenues of $671 million for the 26 weeks ending July 30.

He made it sound like I was to report to him on all my activities for the past two weeks.

The nation's largest retailer, Sears, Roebuck & Company, which had said its sales before Christmas were reasonably good, reported an increase of 4.8 percent for the five weeks ending Jan. 3.

K Mart, based in Troy, Mich., reported sales of $3.90 billion for the five weeks ending Dec. 31.

But industry trade publications have reported the offer in considerable detail for the past two weeks.

The growth was much stronger than analysts had been projecting, and all but erased the sizable declines that had been reported for the last two weeks.

The Cincinnati-based retailer reported sales of $935.9 million for the five weeks ended July 4, up from $870.5 million.

On Feb. 21, it reported a decline in deposits of $1.41 billion for the first six weeks of the new year.