Free Wi-Fi has been a marketing tool at restaurant and beverage establishments including McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) and Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX). Now Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has decided the service will help it attract…
Retailers are reporting July sales figures this morning, and so far there’s not a lot of excitement. July is the time when stores clear out summer merchandise to stock up on back-to-school…
One of three respondents in a recent survey said they would spend less on consumer goods over the next 90 days than they said they would in June. The drop was 6…
Analysts are moving stocks. These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN) Cut to Hold at…
These are some of the top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street firms: AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) Cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs Best Buy Co. (NYSE:…
Retail sales reports for the month of June are arriving thick and fast this morning, but the news is lukewarm at best and the outlook for the back-to-school season is soft. Consumer…
For a while there, during the economic downturn that started in the second half of 2008, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) looked like it had found a large number of new customers for…
Costco (NASDAQ: COST) announced very impressive earnings for the quarter ending May 9. Revenue rose from $15.5 billion to $17.4 billion. Net income jumped from $210 million to $306 million. Same-store sales…
This coming week has what seems like a tame or simple cast of characters in The Unusual Suspects. While there are earnings on deck, most of these are not considered earnings reports. …
Some of the top earnings next week are Campbell Soup Co. (NYSE: CPB), Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), Trina Solar Ltd. (NYSE: TSL), TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (NYSE: AEO),…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has now shown its latest holdings as of the close on March December 31, 2010. These are Warren Buffett’s most recent holdings, even though some may…
What happens when you have a huge rally and you still see many popular stocks not performing at all or hardly up at all on the broad market? Traders either chase the…
Reuters: Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) password operation was hit by cyberattacks. Reuters: A leading political party in Germany is urging that the nation not deal with Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS). Reuters: …
The top five officers at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc (NYSE: WMT) made $65 million in aggregate in the company’s fiscal year ending January 31. Shareholders did not do quite as well. Wal-Mart shares rose only…
Investors are going to get to see some very pleasant surprises on the same store sales data for the month of March 2010 from major retailers. The media will likely tout this…
