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Retail
Retail Sales Shine, Even If Winter Weather Does Not
The National Retail Federation (NRF) has now released the holiday numbers, and the naysayers were proven wrong despite some of the worst December weather in years.
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Retail
The Bullish and Bearish Case for Best Buy in 2014
Best Buy remains in a state of turnaround, although you do not hear the reports of its future death any longer. 24/7 Wall St. wanted to run the bullish and bearish cases…
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Consumer Electronics
Best Buy Stock Falls on Report from hhgregg
courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) has a market cap of more than $13.5 billion. hhgregg Inc. (NYSE: HGG) has a market cap of just about $390 million.…
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Retail
Wall Street Picks Retailers That Were Winners and Losers During Holidays
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.Investors in retailer stocks already know two things about holiday results. The first is that, over the past month of 2013, the rising tide of the stock market…
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Investing
J.P. Morgan Sees Nine Value Stocks Outperforming Growth Stocks in 2014
In a new research report, the equity strategy team at J.P. Morgan has come up with outside-the-box ideas for investors that we have not seen from other big Wall Street houses. They…
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Media
America’s 50 Largest Websites
courtesy of AOL, IncThe battle between Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) for the lead in U.S. unique visitors continued into November. Once again, the portal edged out the search firm–based…
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Apps & Software
U.S. Spending for Gaming Shrinks, But Number of Payers Grows
MicrosoftU.S. spending on digital games is declining. In 2012, the total spend was about $21.9 billion compared with an expected total of $20.5 billion in 2013. But the news isn’t all bad.…
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Retail
Big Retail Pushes “Free Shipping” as Holiday Shopping Ends
As retailers face having only days to improve their sales results, they have turned to a part of their playbook that did not even exist a few years ago -- free shipping.
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Investing
Piper Jaffray Top Stocks to Buy for 2014
courtesy of Apple Inc.Like most firms that we cover on Wall Street, Piper Jaffray has updated its top names to buy for 2014, and the firm has an extensive market commentary to…
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Retail
Is The Best Buy Stock Run Over?
courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.The shares of Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) are up almost 250% this year. The company’s management has staged a turnaround, at least partially. But the progress is…
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Retail
10 Shopping Days Until Christmas–Retailers Sprint
courtesy Wal-Mart Stores Inc.The spread of estimates of how holiday sales did over the period from Black Friday through Cyber Monday is wide. NRF reported that Thanksgiving Holiday spending reached $57.4 billion, which was…
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Retail
What Amazon Wants You to Buy for the Holidays
Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) admitted that the discounts it gave on gifts during its Black Friday Deals Week and Cyber Monday Deals Week are over. Like every other retailer, it has…
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Consumer Electronics
Xbox One, PlayStation 4 Availability Challenges Holiday Sales
MicrosoftIn an announcement Wednesday morning touting its sale of more than 2 million of its new Xbox One game consoles, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) said, “Demand is exceeding supply in our 13…
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Media
As NFL Season Draws to an End, Sponsors Fill League’s Pockets Online
thinkstockThe NFL is supposed to make money on TV rights and from major sponsors. Most of these sponsors are among the largest branded companies in the United States. And virtually all of them already…
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Investing
Top Stocks to Buy in 2014 for Rising Interest Rates
Wikimedia CommonsThe conventional wisdom on Wall Street at almost every major firm we cover is that interest rates are going higher in 2014. The bond market is a very anticipatory vehicle. From…
