Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is having another big up-day on what appears to be no news. That implies short covering as the short sellers occasionally have to run for cover. While…
Jon C. Ogg A new survey by Consumer Reports rated both in-store and online shopping. The poll covered responses from over 26,000 people Costco (NASDAQ: COST) ranked first, not surprising because of the reputation of…
Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) has been a disaster of a stock over the long-term, but it is off to one incredibly strong recovery in share prices in 2012. The trough to…
The press has been invited to an event at which new JP Penney (NYSE: JCP) CEO Ron Johnson will talk about what the company says is his exciting new strategy. What the invitation does…
Shares of Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) rose 13% on Friday to $49. There may have been several causes. The first is that all or part of troubled retailer will be sold. The…
Douglas A. McIntyre Equity markets opened mixed this morning, with the DJIA up slightly and the NASDAQ Composite and S&P 500 down slightly. That pattern held throughout the day as last night’s report from Google…
Shares of Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) are jumping this morning on increased speculation that majority shareholder Eddie Lampert will take the company private. The speculation first surfaced earlier this week when…
Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is continuing to trade higher, despite a poor job of management and despite the notion that reality may get in the way of rumors. There remains an ongoing…
After diving by -8.5% in one day in late December, Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) has reversed that loss on speculation that the venerable retailer will be taken private. Sears has steadily…
Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is running higher this Tuesday after additional rumors that the floundering retailer is a going-private candidate. Shareholders of Sears have almost no real power in the company,…
Jon C. Ogg Customers, employees, shareholders and taxpayers hate large corporations for many reasons. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a lengthy list of corporations for which there is substantial research data to choose the 10 most…
The public and the press usually measure unemployment one month at a time as data from ADP and the federal government are issued. The jobs market can also be tracked in another…
Layoffs have surged recently. There is no telling why they happened all at about the same time. Drug giant Novartis (NYSE: NVS) said it will cut nearly 2,000 jobs. Food Lion will shut…
TPG may invest $1 billion in troubled Olympus. (Reuters) President Obama to ask for a $1.2 trillion increase in the national debt ceiling. (Reuters) China’s foreign currency reserves drop to $3.18 trillion,…
Olympus may partner with Samsung. (Reuters) RBS cuts 3,500 investment bank jobs. (Reuters) RealtyTrac reports that foreclosures reached a four-year low in 2011. (Reuters) International Monetary Fund senior executive Lipton sees no…
