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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (COST, XOM, AKAM, P, SCCO, MRK, AYI, CBST, AA, INHX, PSOF, IDIX, NFLX, THRX, LTRX)

Posted: January 9, 2012 at 4:07 pm

US markets opened up slightly this morning and have maintained a slight positive tone for most of the day. Today marks the unofficial beginning of another earnings season, with Alcoa ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AKAM, GAS, AAPL, ARMH, B, COST, XOM, FR, HTH, IART, IGT, MRK, P, PENN, PVH, RBS, SCCO, THOR)

Posted: January 9, 2012 at 8:09 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Monday morning. Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) Cut to Sell ...
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Retail Sales Roundup (COST, TGT, JCP, KSS, DDS, JWN, SKS, SSI, M, GPS, TJX, LTD, ROST, SMRT, WTSLA, BKE, ZUMZ, WAG)

Posted: January 5, 2012 at 12:24 pm

US retailers are reporting December same-store sales today, and here’s a wrap-up of the results as of about 10 a.m. this morning. Reports were in from Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: ...
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Could Sears Be Broken Up?

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 6:28 am

What Eddie Lampert put together in 2005 could be broken into pieces again, and that might be the only realistic way to “fix” Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD). Lampert engineered a ...
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Bain, Other Consultants, Top Best Places To Work List

Posted: December 14, 2011 at 3:24 am

Bain & Company topped the 2012 version of the "Glassdoor Top 50 Places To Work." McKinsey, MITRE, and Shalom Consulting were all among the top 10. Tech leaders were also ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (CSCO, DO, LVS, LULU, PM, SLB, CIEN, COST, SFD, LAYN, KFY, DMAN, AFFY, DANG, IVC, PNCL, TSLA)

Posted: December 8, 2011 at 4:08 pm

Stocks opened lower this morning and trailed mostly lower throughout the day. Today’s wholesale inventory reported showed a gain of 1.6% and the initial jobless claims were substantially lower than ...
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The Newest Fortune 100 Companies

Posted: December 2, 2011 at 6:42 am

Most of America’s largest companies are also among its oldest companies. In fact, many of the Fortune 100 firms are more than a century old. Almost none were founded in ...
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November Same-Store Sales Mixed, Winners and Losers (LTD, TLB, COST, TGT, M, DDS, JWN, KSS, GPS, ROST, JCP, TJX, LULU, SSI, PIR)

Posted: December 1, 2011 at 10:17 am

Retailers are reporting November sales this morning and the results are decidely mixed. The best report we’ve seen so far this morning is from Limited Brands, Inc. (NYSE: LTD) and ...
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Online Retailers Stealing Bricks And Mortar Business

Posted: December 1, 2011 at 5:18 am

The Monday following this year’s Thanksgiving, also known as Cyber Monday, was the highest-grossing online shopping day in U.S. history. According to research firm comScore, spending reached $1.25 billion, an ...
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Expected Sales Growth Drives Upside in Retail Stocks (COST, WMT, TGT, M, JWN, KSS, BBY)

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 2:27 pm

An unexpected gain in October retail sales has boosted prospects for a better-than-forecast holiday retail sales season. Some of the sales gains will come from lower pricing, which can’t always ...
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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings, A to K (BRK-B, BRK-A, AXP, BK, KO, CVS, CDCO, COP, COST, DG, XOM, GCI, GE, GSK, INTC, IR, IBM, JNJ, KFT)

Posted: November 14, 2011 at 4:44 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of September 30, 2011. These public stock holdings have been broken down ...
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Media Digest (11/10/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes

Posted: November 10, 2011 at 6:20 am

Financial concerns about Italy have raised the issue of a breakup of the eurozone. (Reuters) China’s October imports rise but exports are weak. (Reuters) A deal to name a new ...
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A Retail Bankruptcy and October Same-Store Sales (SYMS, COST, TGT, M, JWN, JCP, KSS, LTD, AEO, ZUMZ, BKE, WTSLA)

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 9:22 am

October is not usually a strong month for retailers because shoppers take a break between the back-to-school buying and the coming holiday season. In October 2010, same-store retail sales rose ...
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Expected Upside Gains for Leading Retailers (COST, WMT, TGT, M, JWN, KSS, BBY)

Posted: October 14, 2011 at 3:01 pm

The retail sales growth outlook for the coming holiday season has been cut to around 3%, only half the growth retailers saw in the 2010 holiday season. Of course, last ...
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Holiday Retail Sales Growth Forecast — Half Last Year’s Total (TGT, M, JWN, JCP, DDS, LTD, GPS, SSI, ZUMZ, BKE, COST)

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 9:14 am

Retail sales for the coming holiday season are expected to be about 3% higher than 2010 sales. Not bad, considering that US GDP growth predictions are now below 2%; not ...
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