ThinkstockSpecialty apparel retailer Express Inc. (NYSE: EXPR) saw its shares get crushed in premarket trading Wednesday morning. The company reported third-quarter results before markets opened, missing the earnings per share estimate by…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockWith the huge performance and sales on Cyber Monday of almost $2.3 billion, topping Black Friday’s $2 billion, more and more advertisers are moving their budgets to target Internet sales. This is…
courtesy of Google Inc.If you are going to fill the world with the next generation of robots, as the New York Times suggests Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is preparing to do, who…
courtesy of TargetMany retail stocks are higher over the past month. Investors have either received hard news, or have seen forecasts, that the largest companies in the sector, which include Wal-Mart Stores…
ThinkstockCyber Monday online holiday sales reached $1.735 billion, which is an increase of 18% from 2012 and a record. J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) said its same-store sales rose 10% in…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockE-commerce has come of age, and is no longer the little brother of bricks and mortar retail. What proponents of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) have known all along, research released today supported–online holiday…
ThinkstockOnline shopping on Cyber Monday lived up to its billing, topping Black Friday’s online sales of around $2 billion with a new record of $2.29 billion. That is very close to an…
ThinkstockA survey for the National Retail Federation (NRF) estimated that more than 141 million different shoppers hit the stores over the four-day Thanksgiving holiday. That is slightly more than the 139 million…
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) has to have a spectacular record for the 2013 holiday shopping season. So do the Sears and Kmart divisions of Sears Holdings…
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Thanksgiving online sales may have gone above $1 billion for the first time. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) may have had record-breaking Black Friday sales. But the big…
ThinkstockResults for the shopping extravaganza known as Black Friday have begun to come in and by all accounts, Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday shoppers held up their end of the bargain. Retailers’…
Amazon.com Inc.If the fourth quarter matters as much to tablet sales as it does to other consumer electronics devices, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) will almost certainly have a huge lead. New research shows…
ThinkstockWhat would a huge holiday quarter look like for Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)? Revenue of $25 billion. At that level Amazon would prove that its sales can continue to grow at an unexpectedly…
ThinkstockWhat has become the largest day for online sales in any given year is nearly upon us again. Cyber Monday, the first Monday after the long Thanksgiving weekend, is right around the…
ThinkstockRetailers are well into their Black Friday shopping day by now and we thought we’d take a look at how the stocks at ten leading retailers are reacting to early news of…
