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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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Black Friday E-Commerce Sales Up 26%

Posted: November 27, 2011 at 3:53 pm

comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR)  reported U.S. retail e-commerce spending for the first 25 days of the November – December 2011 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $12.7 billion has been spent ...
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Holiday E-commerce Spending to Greatly Outpace Brick & Mortar (SCOR, AMZN, WMT, TGT)

Posted: November 23, 2011 at 1:29 pm

Many stores are planning to open early on Black Friday in an effort to get a jump on holiday shopping, but spending increases are not expected to rise more than ...
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Black Friday Shoppers to Surge, But Will They Buy?

Posted: November 23, 2011 at 6:10 am

A new study by the National Federation of Retailers makes a prediction that runs counter to almost every other forecast of holiday shopping activity. The data shows that the number of people ...
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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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Stock Market Votes for Walmart Over Amazon as Holidays Start

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 6:10 am

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is supposed to thrash Walmart (NYSE: WMT) in sales increases this holiday season. That should make Amazon the better investment. Wall St. believes otherwise, though. Over the past month, shares in Walmart ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (AAPL, DV, MS, QCOM, TGT, WDC, HAST, TECD, TSN, HPQ, TSL, CSIQ, JKS, JASO, LDK, STP, LNKD, VRUS, GILD, FMCN, GEDU, REGN, Z)

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 4:08 pm

Stock prices plunged this morning and spent most of the day trading way down. The DJIA hovered around -300 points for most of the day, while the NASDAQ was off ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AAPL, CI, DV, DDS, IFF, LNKD, MS, QCOM, RIMM, TGT, WAG, WMT, WDC, ZOLL)

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 8:13 am

These are some of Monday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated Outperform and $500 target at Credit Suisse. CIGNA ...
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No Turnaround Under New Sears (SHLD) CEO

Posted: November 17, 2011 at 12:49 pm

The turnaround efforts of new Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) CEO Lou D'Ambrosio have died almost before they started. Sears reported especially poor earnings for the quarter that ended October 31. The ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (DELL, DKS, RIMM, ATVI, TIBX, ZOOM, ANF, TGT, SPB, VLO, WNR, MPC, NG, PEIX, ASYS, UNIS)

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 4:08 pm

The markets opened lower this morning and not until mid-afternoon were equities able to put a mark above yesterday’s close. European stocks traded mixed all day, and that coupled with ...
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Retail Earnings Confusion (TGT, WMT, SPB, ANF)

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 11:28 am

Two earnings reports this morning offer a contrast in the fortunes of companies that are in different parts of the retail sales chain. Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) reported adjusted EPS ...
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Three Earnings Reports to Rule the Market This Week (HD, DELL, WMT, TGT, SHLD, LOW, HPQ, AAPL)

Posted: November 14, 2011 at 10:32 am

Earnings season may feel over, but this week is going to be riddled with key earnings reports that can move the market or move their sectors.  The key earnings are ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (11/14/2011) Boeing Record Order, Walmart Earnings

Posted: November 14, 2011 at 6:39 am

Big retailer earnings due this week. Earnings from Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), Target (NYSE: TGT) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) are due this week. The numbers from Target and Walmart, particularly their guidance for ...
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Target’s Website Crash: The Arrogance of Originality

Posted: November 14, 2011 at 6:28 am

Target (NYSE: TGT) announced in late 2009 that it would no longer use Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) tech platform to run Target.com. The country’s second largest retailer wanted to completely control ...
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Black Friday Creeping into Thursday at Walmart (WMT, TGT, BBY, M, KSS, AMZN)

Posted: November 10, 2011 at 10:14 am

The retail jamboree known as Black Friday seems to start earlier every year. The door-buster sales used to begin in the wee hours of Friday morning, but several retailers have ...
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