Investors still love dividends and stock buybacks. On top of these corporate governance and return of capital strategies in general, investors really love when they are holding a stock where the payouts are…
RadioShack sits in a class by itself, insofar as it appears to be the next huge retailer that could fall into pieces, much as Blockbuster and Circuit City did.
Radio Shack will partner with PCH International to launch RadioShack Labs, which will provide innovative startups a pathway to consumers through a direct-to-store channel featuring both marketing promotion and a strong retail…
247sarah ThinkstockWhile some say valuations are stretched, and the bull market is tired, the bottom line is the market has basically gone sideways for almost a half a year. In a new research…
As retailers post poor earnings, the possibility that major retailers will eliminate thousands of locations in total has increased. Some announcements about "downsizing" have already been made.
Retailer Best Buy reported mixed first-quarter fiscal 2015 results before markets opened Thursday morning. Shares were down about 3.5% in premarket trading.
Paul Ausick Best Buy is set to report earnings this Thursday. It is a safe bet that its investors and market observers will be watching closely for how this painful turnaround story is progressing.
Jon C. Ogg ThinkstockThe stock market hit a new high on Friday morning, just in time for two days of serious stock selling. It turns out that the high-beta momentum stocks that led the bull…
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has started to offer a series of large discounts on consumer electronics. The move gives it a chance to steal market share from Amazon.com…
courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) started a turnaround under CEOÂ Hubert Joly who joined the huge consumer electronics company in August 2012. The company had been damaged by…
MicrosoftIt didn’t take very long for Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) to erase the $100 price premium it charged for the new Xbox One compared with Sony Corp.’s (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 4. All…
Speculation is that Amazon.com is preparing to launch a game console/TV set top type device that will resemble the so-called Chromecast dongle. That is, the device will be less like a set…
ThinkstockThis past week marked the fifth anniversary of the bottom of the market from March 2009. To celebrate those massive gains since then, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has now fallen five…
SolarCity and Best Buy have teamed up to help customers go solar. The aim for the solar panel installer is to get face time with shoppers to explain how much money they…
Best Buy reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2014 earnings before markets opened Thursday morning, but revenues fell short of estimates and same-stores sales declined.
Paul Ausick 
