"You're never entirely sure how a wicket is going to play, but generally the bowlers who take the paceoff the ball do pretty well and they did here, " Strauss said.
Shopping centers, which play host to day-to-day necessities--drugstores, hair salons, laundries--are down 0.5%. (The big malls, owned by powerful players like real estate investment trusts, are finding meager advances in same-store sales at their department stores and boutiques.) Warehouses, their growth paceoff only half a point to 4%, are still much in demand.