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Time for our daily look at the world of commodity prices and key developments. We have cotton issues, oil spikes,…
When the going gets tough, the tough raise their dividends. At least that’s the way it seems with Wal-Mart Stores…
Retail may be getting another good month of numbers for February 2011 if Retail Metrics is correct. The research firm…
Many shareholders argue that share repurchase and stock buyback plans are generally a waste of shareholder capital aimed solely as…
Kohl’s Corp. (NYSE: KSS) has buckled to the pressure to pay a dividend. At the end of January, we highlighted…
Despite big companies holding unprecedented billions and billions of dollars on their balance sheets, it is shocking how many companies…
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms.…
Last year seemed like another of unrelenting layoffs, but ten large companies added, in total, more than 200,000 jobs, according…
Several experts estimate that as many as 130 million shoppers will visit stores or online retail sites on Black Friday.…
Retailers are reporting August same-store sales numbers today, and on the whole the reports are positive after a very cautious…
The earnings report from Kohl’s Corporation (NYSE: KSS) was partly like the Macy’s Inc. (NYSE: M) report yesterday, but the…
Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN) has raised its dividend, and the raise is substantial even if the yield is not. The…
Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN) may serve a different tier of the retail market than Kohl’s Corp. (NYSE: KSS), but it…
Investors are going to get to see some very pleasant surprises on the same store sales data for the month…
A look at the “hardest working” major brands for 2009 shows that a number of them belong to companies which…
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