It has since added less costly models, and its retail share has bounced back to 16 percent.

Poor Retail Earnings Slow Markets Stocks declined on weakness in retail shares.

The stock was halted from trading, but the news send many other retail shares down; they had gained on Thursday after posting October sales.

From the end of June through Thanksgiving Day, an index of 12 retail shares rose 18.1 percent, while the Standard & Poor's 500 was up just 6.3 percent.

One class may be sold through a Stockbroker or financial adviser with an initial commission (front-end load) and might be called retail shares.

The data are for the fund's institutional shares; retail shares became available in February 1997.

CSI Equity, which started in October 1997, began offering two classes of retail shares in January 2002.

Yesterday's stampede out of retail shares seemed at first to be part of a general exodus from growth stocks.

Stampede at Selfridges sales - retail shares gained after figures showed the numbers of shoppers visiting sales was up around 21pc on last year.

The fall in financial stocks offset a rise in retail shares on hopes of bumper High Street sales.