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Consumer Sentiment Rises on Jobs Outlook, Lower Gasoline Prices

Posted: May 25, 2012 at 12:07 pm

The Reuters/University of Michigan consumer survey for May is out and the index of consumer sentiment rose to 79.3, up from 76.4 in April and 74.3 in May 2011. Economists ...
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Retailer Earnings Up Most in Two Years (WMT, DKS, HIBB, BBBY, WSM, BWS, FL, BBY, GME, WTSLA, GPS, ANF)

Posted: May 23, 2012 at 7:36 am

With 80% of the 120 companies it tracks having reported first quarter 2012 results, research firm Retail Metrics says that retailers who beat earnings estimates are up 5% year-over-year for ...
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Retail Sales Mostly Holding Up So Far In May

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 9:09 am

Redbook Research reports each week on the status of retail sales.  Usually these weekly reports do not really matter but this week may be an exception even if these are ...
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World’s Top Brands Led By Apple, IBM, Google

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 8:04 am

You may or may not have heard of Millward Brown, but you might not be surprised who they ranked as the world's top brand: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) took the ...
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Banking on Dirty Harry

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 4:00 pm

We have a tale of two gun stories today.  Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: SWHC) is surging on news from the company that gun sales are running even stronger ...
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Winnebago Shuns Takeover Bid

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 12:13 pm

Recreational vehicle maker Winnebago Industries Inc. (NYSE: WGO) said this morning that the company received an offer from private equity firm North Street Capital L.P. to acquire all of Winnebago’s ...
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Shoe Stores Jump on Profits, Forecasts (BWS, FL)

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 11:51 am

Two major US shoe retailers reported results this morning, and both blew through estimates. Brown Shoe Co. (NYSE: BWS), which owns the Famous Footwear stores among other brands, and Footlocker ...
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Shared Data Plans on Tap from Wireless Vendors

Posted: May 17, 2012 at 10:41 am

We noted earlier this morning that Verizon Wireless, the joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone Group plc (NASDAQ: VOD), will not offer unlimited data plans to ...
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Philly Fed & Leading Indicators Show More Risk Of Slowdown

Posted: May 17, 2012 at 10:18 am

The woes of Europe and the slowing of growth in the BRIC nations is starting to show up more and more in the economic numbers being reported and this will ...
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Wal-Mart Earnings Preview Against Sears, Target, Home Depot

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 3:36 pm

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is set to report earnings early on Thursday morning.  This earnings report is likely to be very different from any prior earnings report due to ...
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Avon Tanking After Coty Pulls Bid

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 11:35 am

Shares of Avon Products Inc. (NYSE: AVP) are down more than -10% shortly before noon today after suitor Coty Inc. withdrew its $24.75/share offer for the door-to-door cosmetics empire. Avon ...
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Retail Sales Show Small Increase in April

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 9:06 am

US retail sales rose 0.1% month-over-month in April following a jump of 6.6% in March. The difference is likely attributed to the warmer weather and the early Easter holiday pulling ...
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April CPI: Inflation Fears Fade

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 8:55 am

The Labor Department is out with its reading on inflation for the month of April.  The Consumer Price Index was effectively flat and in-line with the Dow Jones target of ...
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Groupon Manages Adult-Level Earnings

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 4:23 pm

Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) is out with its quarterly earnings report and frankly it looks and feels like an earnings report from adults rather than from what has looked and felt ...
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PPI Shows No Evidence of Inflation

Posted: May 11, 2012 at 8:38 am

The Labor Department is out with the wholesale inflation data or the Producer Price Index for April.  Inflation was at bay with a reading of -0.2% on the headline data ...
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