Before the turkey is even put into the oven, Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) has Black Friday doorbuster items available at its online store. Most brick-and-mortar stores open at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving…
GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) has joined in on the ranks of companies issuing massive discounts and door-busters for Black Friday. As a reminder, GameStop’s hours were expanded to open at 5:00 a.m. local time…
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) wins, again. Research firm comScore expects digital commerce to rise 14% to $70 billion. While the growth rate for e-commerce has pulled back from the days when it was well into…
No one can make the case that VW US sales will improve in November. However, the collapse may be more than modest. The diesel engine scandal will take a huge toll. VW’s already very…
November 25, 2015: Here are four stocks trading with heavy volume among 48 equities making new 52-week lows today. TerraForm Power Inc. (NASDAQ: TERP) dropped about 23.8% on Wednesday to post a new 52-week…
ThinkstockNovember 25, 2015: Markets opened higher on Wednesday on a trading day when light volume is expected ahead of tomorrow’s Thanksgiving Day holiday. WTI crude for January delivery added about 0.4% today to settle…
For most of the 20th century, many Americans moved from the rural South to the urban Northeast and Midwest. More recently, Americans have migrated heavily to states in the Sun Belt, such as Florida,…
The latest account from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reports that there has been a total of 690 data breaches recorded through November 24, 2015, and that more than 176 million records have…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that U.S. natural gas stocks increased for the week ending November 20
Online sales are up 21% year-over-year through Tuesday.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report Wednesday morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories increased by 1 million barrels last week, maintaining a total U.S. commercial crude inventory of 488.2…
It was just this week that 24/7 Wall St. pointed out that Consumer Confidence from the Conference Board did not match up with the preliminary report from the University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment report.…
U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that sales of new homes in October rose to 495,000, an increase of 10.7% from September.
If you read all the reports about weak retail spending, you might wonder how all those dollars saved on gasoline are ending up in the economy. Now add in continually strong jobs reports. The Bureau…
Something just feels odd about the jobs market these days. The concerns of a serious slowing in new jobs seemed to have abated, but the Consumer Confidence had a serious slowing expected in jobs…
