Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) is facing yet one more tough reception of a company action after news that the electronics manufacturer is buying out its British partner of its U.S. mobile…
Wall St. has voted on how strong holiday sales will be this year. Shares of Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) and Target (NYSE: TGT) are down year to date. Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and…
There is concern that the new Greek government will not be stable enough to run the nation. (Reuters) As finances in Italy deteriorate, concerns grow about the ability of the government to…
There will be more “Going Out Of Business” sales after the first of the year than was expected just weeks ago. Deloitte’s annual holiday survey data shows that: Consumers who plan to…
Nokia’s new Microsoft smartphone: Today will be remembered as the day that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) began an historic turnaround, or when it lost its bet on new smartphones that run the Microsoft…
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is set to report earnings after the close of trading on Tuesday. What makes Amazon so different from many peers in technology, internet and virtual companies is that…
FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) expects to handle more than 260 million packages during the coming holiday season. That’s a 12% increase from a year ago, and to cope with the flood the…
courtesy Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc.David Einhorn of Greenlight is well-known in investing, and not just for being long. This is called whale-watching. His comments today at the Value Investing Congress are…
The retail sales growth outlook for the coming holiday season has been cut to around 3%, only half the growth retailers saw in the 2010 holiday season. Of course, last year followed…
Each year, hundreds of thousands of temporary workers are hired by retailers to handle the demands of the holiday season. The number of seasonal workers added is considered a bellwether for the…
Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST) reported its fiscal fourth-quarter and full fiscal year earnings before markets opened this morning. The headline numbers look pretty good, but the fine print might be telling…
U.S. retailers hired more than 627,000 seasonal workers during the October-December 2010 holiday season, a welcome boost from the mere 231,000 seasonal workers put on in 2008. Prospects for 2011 seasonal hiring…
Back in the day, a layaway plan made sense for many consumers who did not have the full purchase price of an item but could pay regular small installments until the item…
Some boards of directors of America’s largest public companies have shown such poor judgment guiding their troubled corporations that they have long stopped being effective. Just recently, the misguided actions of the…
Last April Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) paid $320 million to acquire Blockbuster Inc. out of bankruptcy. Speculation at the time suggested that Dish would enter the streaming video and DVD-by-mail market…
