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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — May 17, 2012

Posted: May 17, 2012 at 4:04 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened essentially flat this morning as investors were faced with a flat report on new claims for jobless benefits (our coverage here). Manufacturing data ...
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Sears, Walmart Turnarounds?

Posted: May 17, 2012 at 8:21 am

Neither Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) nor Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) was expected to post big numbers for the quarter just ended. And they didn’t -- but the numbers ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — May 16, 2012

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 4:05 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning as investors appeared to be reacting to a temporarily stronger euro, which indicated some confidence in the Eurozone generally. But ...
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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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Sears, Overstock, And Gilt Hammered In New E-Commerce Study

Posted: May 9, 2012 at 11:12 am

Sears (NASDAQ: SHLD), Overstock (NASDAQ: OSTK), and  Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) are not particularly well-regarded as brands or particularly well-liked by Wall St. Perhaps coincidentally, each shows up near ...
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Enthusiasm About a JCPenney Turnaround Ends

Posted: May 8, 2012 at 6:31 am

JCPenney (NYSE: JCP) was set to be the next Sears or Kmart. But then Ron Johnson came on as CEO after a run as the head of Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) retail ...
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The Least Powerful CEOs in America

Posted: May 2, 2012 at 6:50 am

It is not unusual for large American public companies to be controlled by a founder, a founding family or a corporation that bought out the large majority of shareholders at ...
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Sears: When Good News Looks Bad (SHLD)

Posted: May 1, 2012 at 8:37 am

In advance of its annual meeting tomorrow, Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) this morning announced that its first quarter same-store sales fell -1.3% compared with the same period a year ...
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Cheering Sears, A Rare Eddie Lampert Media Outing (SHLD)

Posted: April 3, 2012 at 10:24 am

Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) was trading lower on the day, but shares have now spiked up 2% to $68.05 on the day.  The reason is rather unusual and it ...
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Apple Overly Dominates S&P 500 Performance, Still Lags Some Index Titans (SPY, AAPL, MSFT, XOM, SHLD, BAC, NFLX)

Posted: March 30, 2012 at 9:06 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has one more bit of evidence that it is acting as if it was its own stock index.  Its exceptional share performance is worth a substantial ...
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Sears Seeks Sale of Lands’ End — NY Post (SHLD)

Posted: March 29, 2012 at 7:33 am

In an exclusive report, the New York Post says that Eddie Lampert, chairman of Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) has been seeking a buyer for the company’s Lands’ End mail-order ...
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Sears Loses Marketing Chief (SHLD)

Posted: March 27, 2012 at 2:43 pm

After just five months on the job, Sears Holding Co. (NASDAQ: SHLD) marketing head Monica Woo has left the company. She is moving to privately held Mozido, a provider of ...
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Sears Pushes Further Into Real Estate

Posted: March 20, 2012 at 2:12 pm

Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) has done a remarkably poor job as a retailer since Sears and KMart merged. The company has suffered such poor results that it has begun to close ...
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Costco Prospers: Are Consumers Optimistic or Frugal?

Posted: February 29, 2012 at 6:33 am

Costco (NASDAQ: COST) issued extraordinarily strong February sales numbers along with its earnings for the period that ended February 12. Revenue for the quarter rose from $20.9 billion last year ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (SHLD, IPG, DNKN, AEP, URI, AES, BCPC, CHTR, CTB, EP, LOW, KWK, RIG, VRX, ATPG, CQP, DNDN, IMI, MVIS)

Posted: February 27, 2012 at 4:07 pm

Stocks opened down this morning following on weakness in Europe following the G20’s refusal to provide additional funding to the IMF. But at the end of the first hour of ...
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