In four large population states, the number of Walmart stores is half or less the average. Unless Walmart can boost its market penetration there, it will have serious difficulty posting sales growth.
The Merrill Lynch growth picks list is crowded with solid names that have outstanding earnings projections for the coming years. Here are 10 growth stocks to buy for the rest of 2014.
An improving job market has not helped Walmart's sales. Has the jobs recovery has hidden a lack of consumer spending or is Walmart losing its place as the largest retailer in America?
ThinkstockWe might have a little trouble defining what we mean when we say that a brand is “patriotic,” but the fact is most Americans know it when they see it. Or at…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street firms for Thursday, June 26, 2014. They include Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Twitter and Disney.
Google will release a set-top box into a market that is already crowded, so Google's chance of taking market share from incumbents is low.
A new research report from Merrill Lynch documents some top stocks that have underperformed the overall market, some to the point where there could potentially be a snap-back rally
These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations for Thursday, June 19, 2014. They include Amazon.com, Celgene, Cisco Systems, FedEx and Starbucks.
Amazon.com Inc.At a press event Wednesday in Seattle, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the company’s “Fire” phone, a 4.7-inch smartphone that is entering a sector dominated by Samsung Electronics…
Smartphones are universally available in the United States for prices that are as low as free, so people who without smartphones almost certainly do not want one or cannot afford one.
Wednesday's expected announcement of a new smartphone from Amazon.com is also reported to reveal that the online retailer has signed a deal with AT&T as the exclusive carrier for the phone.
It is a little difficult to see the logic behind a decision by independent recording labels to refuse to sign a new licensing agreement with YouTube's yet-to-be launched music subscription service.
Just over a month ago FedEx announced that it was introducing "dimesional weight pricing" for packages, and United Parcel Service said Tuesday morning that it would shift to dimensional weight pricing beginning…
Amazon.com has released numbers showing that Kindle Fire HDX customers who used the Mayday button to get customer service enjoy a response time of an average of 9.75 seconds.
Wikimedia CommonsOnline retail giant Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has faced a number of labor issues in the U.S. and Europe over the past year or so. Most have been related to pay…
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