RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) is seeing shares higher today on news that it will be selling the iPad2 from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) at about 500 stores throughout the country. The initial…
Lennar (NYSE: LEN) received a large amount of bad press after it was disclosed that an outsider had been accused of insider trading in the company’s shares Alcatel Lucent’s (NYSE: ALU) image…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Douglas A. McIntyre The market does not expect much from Best Buy (NYSE: BBY). The company is about to release quarterly figures. Analysts think that results will be hurt by low TV sales. Best Buy…
The head of Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) said that an ex-director leaked confidential information. (Reuters) The prime minister of Portugal stepped down as his austerity plan was rejected by Parliament. (Reuters)…
Earnings season is supposed to be over, but we have a packed week full of earnings due from off-calendar quarterly earnings reports. We have compiled Thomson Reuters estimates and added color where…
“If gasoline tops $4.00 per gallon in the coming weeks, consumers may be forced to make significant changes to their spending habits. At this stage of the recovery, that could be an…
When the going gets tough, the tough raise their dividends. At least that’s the way it seems with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), which is having trouble meeting its revenue goals in…
Shareholders of Frontier Oil are displeased about its merger with Holly Corp. It would be more accurate to say that Holly is making an acquisition for $2.9 billion. Shareholder class actions suits…
Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) just issued another piece of nasty news. It will close its nine branded stores in China. It is another in a series of signs that the electronics retailer…
The company which received the most negative press today is Borders Group which has not only declared Chapter 11 but is in the process of closing 200 stores. Google (NASDAQ GOOG) ranks…
Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) recently joined the waves and waves of public companies which filed their 10-K annual reports with the SEC. We often dig through these and other reports to find…
Several industry groups and weather and securities analysts say that the cold and snowy first month of the year will hurt retail sales and airline traffic. That is almost certainly true. But,…
Companies locked in a struggle to remain viable and maintain their profits and sales sometimes begin to run out of customers. This happened to GM (NYSE: GM), which had a 50% share…
There was nothing wrong with Amazon.com’s (NYSE: AMZN) quarterly results when they are viewed through the lens of the e-commerce company’s battle with the bricks-and-mortar sector. America’s largest retailers have begun to…
