Walmart’s “$10 Or Less” Item Black Friday Sale
courtesy Making Change at Walmart and UFCWIf discounts are the stuff of Black Friday’s allure, then Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has set enough products which sell for $10 or less to draw nearly every shopper.…
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Wikimedia CommonsWhile J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) have run ads in newspapers and online around the country to get shoppers through their doors in a desperate attempt to take market share from…
Retails Sales, Looking Beyond Thanksgiving And Black Friday
courtesy of Apple Inc.The deals are good enough and promotions aggressive enough that the millions of Americans who are supposed to shop on Thanksgiving and Black Friday will. However, retailers face the same puzzle they…
Five Big Upside Sector Winners for 2014
As the stock market is challenging all-time highs around a holiday week, investors have to be considering how to position their portfolios and assets for 2014 and beyond. 24/7 Wall St. has been issuing…
How BMW, Audi, And Mercedes Won The U.S. Car Wars
courtesy of The Car Spy, via Wikimedia CommonsWhen the November car sales figures come out, one certain result will be that BMW, Audi, and Mercedes will post another month of double-digit growth. Perhaps the…
An American, US Airways Merger For Christmas
AMRAn AMR (OTCBB: AAMRQ) merger with US Airways (NYSE: LCC) should be complete in time to for Americans to fly home for the year-end holidays–Christmas perhaps. With the launch of the new American Airlines Group, many experts…
Wednesday Closing Bell: Markets Close Higher as Shop-ageddon Nears
November 27, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher again Wednesday morning following a better-than-expected report on new claims for jobless benefits and a slightly worse-than-expected report on durable goods orders. Consumer sentiment rose more…
Ten Brands That Will Disappear in 2014
Each year, 24/7 Wall St. identifies 10 well-known brands sold in America that we predict will disappear before the end of 2014. This year’s list reflects the brutally competitive nature of certain industries and…
Stock Falls After 3D Printer Developer Camtek Clarifies Product Plans
ThinkstockShares of tech industry testing and inspection systems maker Camtek Ltd. (NASDAQ: CAMT) closed at $1.89 on November 7th, the day the company announced third-quarter earnings. It closed at $2.65 last Friday and skyrocketed…
In Advance of Black Friday, Two Stock Picks in Retail
ThinkstockIn the Thanksgiving holiday edition of its Weekend Warrior newsletter, Sterne Agee offers a couple of stock picks, one outstanding holiday pricing ad, and a weather forecast. That should about cover the bases. The…
FAA Warning: Boeing 747,787 Engine Icing Could Lead to Forced Landings
Courtesy of Boeing Co.As promised, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday issued a formal airworthiness directive on The Boeing Co.’s (NYSE: BA) 747-8, 747-8F, and 787-8 aircraft equipped with the GEnx engines…
Hewlett-Packard Earnings: Who Wins, Who Loses
courtesy of Hewlett-PackardTech giant Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) reported results after markets closed Tuesday night, and investors liked what they heard, pushing the stock price up more than 8% in mid-morning trading on Wednesday.…
Consumer Sentiment Shows Signs of Life in Time for Black Friday
ThinkstockFollowing the better news earlier Wednesday morning from the U.S. Labor Department on new claims for unemployment benefits, the latest reading on consumer sentiment from the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan survey adds a little…
Marathon Commits to Enbridge Crude Oil Pipeline Project
ThinkstockMarathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC) has committed to funding a portion of the Sandpiper Pipeline Project being proposed by Enbridge Energy Partners L.P. (NYSE: EEP) and Enbridge Inc. (NYSE: ENB). The 610-mile long, 24-inch…
New Jobless Claims, Durable Goods Orders Both Lower
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsA veritable blizzard of economic data is set for release Wednesday, just in time to give everyone something to chew over before the Thanksgiving holiday. First out are the advance…