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What Walmart and Amazon Stock Prices Tell About the Holidays

Posted: December 24, 2012 at 7:04 am

What happened to bricks-and-mortar and e-commerce sales this holiday season? If Wall St.'s opinion has validity, online operations did well and old-school stores did not. The price of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s (NYSE: ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — November 29, 2012: Markets Hold onto Modest Gains (NTAP, LNCO, IACI, KMX, CREE, ARO, GES, TIVO, WDAY, BKS, KR, RY, TIF, AVGO, OVTI, YOKU, ZUMZ, SOL, WWAV, RIMM, BLOX, KSS)

Posted: November 29, 2012 at 4:05 pm

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning after the weekly report on new claims for U.S. unemployment benefits came in lower than expected (more coverage here) and the second estimate ...
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Today’s Market Winners and Losers

Posted: November 29, 2012 at 11:23 am

The stock market is up Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.30%, the Nasdaq up 0.62% and the S&P 500 up 0.37%. Today's winner include a infrastructure and software company ...
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Retailers Turning Black Friday Into Black Thursday in 2012 (WMT, TGT, M, KSS, BBY, SHLD, GPS)

Posted: November 12, 2012 at 12:44 pm

If you have ever heard of retailers getting more and more desperate to capture your Christmas and holiday spending dollars, 2012 is going to take the cake. Two holidays have generally ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — November 8, 2012: Market Opens Up, Tracks Down All Day (EXC, KGC, CLWR, BAC, JNPR, ATVI, CTL, MNST, PAAS, WFM, CG, DF, KSS, WEN, MCD, CECO, GRPN, KYAK, LGF, MCP, NVDA, DIS, FWLT, JCP, SD, QCOM, INTC, WPRT)

Posted: November 8, 2012 at 4:03 pm

U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning, but by the end of the first hour stocks had turned south and remained in negative territory throughout the rest of the ...
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Massive Amounts of Insider Selling Right Before Presidential Election (AMG, AFL, CBRL, CCI, ETN, EXPE, GOOG, KSS, KKD, N, PNR, RJF, RHT, RVBD, STX, SIRI, V, YUM)

Posted: November 8, 2012 at 11:16 am

Apparently many executives decided to sell shares right before the presidential election. This is not an assumption that anything is wrong in the companies because insiders can sell shares for ...
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Kohl’s Narrows, Lowers Guidance after Q3 Earnings

Posted: November 8, 2012 at 8:00 am

Kohl’s Corp. (NYSE: KSS) reported third-quarter 2012 earnings this morning. For the quarter, the department store chain posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.91 on revenues of $4.5 billion. ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — November 7, 2012: Markets Dive After U.S. Elections (AOL, HCA, HUM, WPRT, TWC, NWSA, RAX, TWO, AES, AGU, HFC, LEAP, M, THC, TWX, WLP, ATVI, CTL, KGC, MNST, PAAS, WFM, CG, DF, KSS, WEN, JRCC, PLXS)

Posted: November 7, 2012 at 4:03 pm

U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning as traders and investors tried to sort out their reactions to the re-election of President Obama. The initial reaction is that the U.S. ...
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Projected Retail Q3 Earnings Up Sharply, Q4 Looks Even Better

Posted: November 7, 2012 at 12:28 pm

As third quarter earnings results continue to pour in, overall earnings have been decidedly weaker. According to research firm Retail Metrics, the blended S&P 500 earnings growth rate for the ...
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UPS, FedEx Search for an Edge (UPS, FDX, TGT, KSS, WMT, AMZN, EBAY, GOOG)

Posted: October 30, 2012 at 11:50 am

Package delivery giant United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) said yesterday that it plans to hire 55,000 seasonal workers to sort, load, and help deliver packages during the coming holiday ...
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Amazon Adds 50,000 Seasonal Jobs

Posted: October 16, 2012 at 9:36 am

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) will hire more than 50,000 seasonal workers to staff up its 40 U.S. fulfillment centers for the coming holiday shopping season. Amazon joins the ranks of ...
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Six Companies Hiring Big for the Holidays

Posted: October 3, 2012 at 6:22 am

Despite the many economic headwinds still facing the U.S., much of the retail industry is anticipating a sharply improved holiday season compared to last year and is planning accordingly. Six ...
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Macy’s to Hire 80,000 Holiday Workers

Posted: October 1, 2012 at 9:56 am

Macy's Inc. (NYSE: M) has announced that it plans to hire approximately 80,000 seasonal associates for its Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores for the 2012 holiday season. That would be an ...
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Toys”R”Us Hiring — a Little Holiday Cheer?

Posted: September 25, 2012 at 6:39 am

Toys"R"Us will add 45,000 temporary jobs for the holidays. As retailers usually announce, some of these people may get full-time jobs. Of course, most will not. If consumers continue to ...
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No Big Increase in Retail Seasonal Hiring Expected (KSS, TGT, WMT, AMZN, UPS, FDX)

Posted: September 24, 2012 at 11:58 am

From October through December last year, U.S. retail payrolls added 660,200 workers according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. That was barely more than the 647,600 seasonal workers added ...
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