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Seasonal Retail Jobs Likely Softer (TGT, M, KSS, JCP, BBY, SHLD, TJX, XRT)

Posted: October 4, 2011 at 10:05 am

U.S. retailers hired more than 627,000 seasonal workers during the October-December 2010 holiday season, a welcome boost from the mere 231,000 seasonal workers put on in 2008. Prospects for 2011 ...
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Hard Times Live On… Layaway Makes a Comeback (WMT, SHLD, TGT, BBY, TJX, LOW, DG, DLTR, FDO)

Posted: October 4, 2011 at 8:43 am

Back in the day, a layaway plan made sense for many consumers who did not have the full purchase price of an item but could pay regular small installments until ...
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Sears Pins Hopes on Kardashians (SHLD, TGT, WMT)

Posted: August 18, 2011 at 8:16 am

Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) posted a 52-week low on the first trading day after the downgrade of US debt. That low point might not last too long given the ...
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Media Digest 1.5.2011 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 4:01 am

LinkedIn will go public this year (Reuters) China said the yuan was not the cause of trade problem with the US (Reuters) BP plc (NYSE: BP) and other firms involved ...
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Media Digest (12/29/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 29, 2010 at 4:09 am

A survey by CareerBuilder shows more firms plan to hire full-time people in 2011 compared to the two previous years (MarketWatch) The US may petition the WTO after China said ...
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Loss Leaders: How Seven American Companies Lose Money To Make Money

Posted: December 22, 2010 at 5:01 am

'Tis the season for loss leaders. Maybe retailers were scared by the ho-ho horrible recent holiday seasons or maybe they were concerned that consumers remained as worried as ever about ...
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America’s Biggest Companies, Then and Now (1955 to 2010)

Posted: September 21, 2010 at 6:46 am

Today's corporate America is dominated by service companies, tech firms, and huge retailers which have thousands of locations and hundreds of thousands of workers. At the end of the decade ...
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