Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN) has raised its dividend, and the raise is substantial even if the yield is not. The higher-end and luxury apparel retail department store hiked its dividend from $0.16…
Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN) may serve a different tier of the retail market than Kohl’s Corp. (NYSE: KSS), but it is sharing the same trend: selling off after earnings as valuations caught…
It may have felt like earnings are over and maybe that now earnings don’t matter but if you look through the winners in a down market it is often those which are…
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) climbed another rung on the ladder of its recovery. The run of ever-spectacular results at Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) continues.The results of the two companies met at the crossroads of the new…
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…
These are the top ten analyst calls we have seen in upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning: Allergan Inc. (NYSE: AGN) Raised to Buy at Lazard.…
Costco (COST) has built its revenue over the years by selling quality goods for low prices. That is in contrast to Target (TGT) and Walmart (WMT) which have reputations for selling cheap products at a…
Reuters:  The $15 billion jobs bill advanced in the Senate. Reuters:  Toyota (NYSE:TM) faces a US criminal probe. Reuters:  KKR and TPC are close to a deal to buy Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE:MS) share…
Reuters:  The Fed will try to calm the markets after it raised the discount rate to .75%. Reuters:  The head of Toyota (TM) will go to Congress to testify. Reuters:  The Fed’s…
It is likely that there were very few winners among retailers this holiday season. Mid-market chains such as Macy’s (NYSE:M) and Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) probably had bad results. Perennially weak retailers which include Abercrombie & Fitch…
Reuters:  US business investment is rising. Reuters:  Another outage shut down RIM’s (NYSE:RIMM) BlackBerry network. Reuters:  Geithner said tight lending could hurt US economy. Reuters:  Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) lost an appeal over IP…
Short sellers sharply increased their gamble that financial stocks would fall based on short selling data from NYSE and Nasdaq on the last day of November. Shorts pushed into Citigroup (NYSE:C), increasing…
Measurements from online research site Experian Hitwise show that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has been the most visited e-commerce site during the holiday shopping season since 2006. It is in the process of extending that lead…
There are bits of research that say holiday e-commerce sales rose in the double digits over the Thanksgiving weekend and did even better on Monday. E-commerce sales have risen as a total percentage…
Black Friday is under 48 hours away. We have seen much data and much analysis out there on the topic, but there are two fairly easy conclusions here…. well, make it three. …
