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Can a New CFO Save Sears?
Sears Holdings has promoted Senior Vice President Jason Hollar to chief financial officer, effective immediately. Not exactly fresh blood.
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Would Sears Bankruptcy Cost Tens of Thousands of Jobs?
The parent of Sears and Kmart has lost almost $4 billion over the past three years. Fitch Ratings recently tagged it as a likely retail bankruptcy.
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Retail
Labor Day Sales Off to an Early Start
This Labor Day holiday is an especially good time of year to shop for a bargain on dishwashers and microwave ovens, according to researchers. Other items that get heavy discounts are tablets…
Paul Ausick 7:22am ET
Special Report
Customer Service Hall of Shame
Every company in the United States likes to promise an exceptional customer experience. Yet some corporations do a truly abysmal job keeping that promise — these companies provide very poor customer service.…
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Investing
Top 10 Earnings to Watch This Week
24/7 Wall St. has put together a preview of HP, Best Buy and some of the other major companies reporting their quarterly results this coming week.
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Retail
6 Retailers That Need to Merge to Survive
The trouble is relentless across the brick-and-mortar retail world. Malls are closing or downsizing. At least six large retailers will have to merge, almost certainly in some combination with one another.
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Retail
How Amazon Destroys Hundreds of Thousand of Jobs
The list of layoffs by traditional retailers stretches ever longer. Almost every company blames e-commerce, which indirectly means Amazon.com.
9:10am ET
Retail
JC Penney Short Interest a Huge 87 Million
The number of shares sold short in J.C. Penney was more than 87 million on the most recent settlement date, nearly a third of the entire float.
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Retail
Will Back-to-School Season Put a Bullet in Sears?
Back-to-school season is a big deal for brick-and-mortar retailers. If Sears sales for the period are slow, it puts another bullet in a dying company.
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Retail
JC Penney Short Interest Slips to 81 Million Shares
Most recently, the short interest in J.C. Penney shares stood at nearly 82 million, which is 27% of its float.
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Investing
Big Buffett and Icahn Trades Highlight Insider Buying: Phillips 66, Hertz, Bank of New York Mellon, Advance Auto Parts and More
This past week started to resemble just what we have been expecting the rest of the summer to look like: volatile. Yet, big-time insiders were big-time buyers.
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Special Report
The Worst Companies to Work For
Keeping employees happy can only improve a company’s bottom line. Employee satisfaction can significantly impact the productivity, sales, and reputation of any company. Despite its importance, many companies struggle to keep their…
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Investing
Huge Warren Buffett and Starboard Value Trades Highlight Insider Buying: Phillips 66, Pandora, Sears, Advance Auto Parts and More
Insiders at some of the top companies made some of the biggest purchases this past week that we have seen in a while. And buying volume swamped selling volume.
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Investing
Top 9 Earnings to Look for Next Week
24/7 Wall St. has put together a preview of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Best Buy and some of the other major companies reporting their quarterly results this coming week.
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Special Report
Companies With the Best (and Worst) Reputations
Automaker Volkswagen now has the worst reputation of any major company in the United States. E-retailer Amazon.com has the best reputation, and Apple moved into second place, beating rival Samsung, which had…