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Retail
Costco (COST): Retailing’s Elite Start To Fail
There is an upper tier of retail companies both in the US and abroad. It has been assumed that these firms would not dodge a recession, but that they might keep their…
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Investing
The Companies With Dividends That Won’t Be Cut (MSFT)(MCD)(JNJ)(PG)
S&P has reported that the dividends of companies in its S&P 500 index are being cut at the fastest rate in fifty years. A report by the Associated Press says that even…
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Media
Media Digest 1/8/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, Microsoft (MSFT) Windows 7 is "on schedule" and will begin testing with consumers.Reuters reports that Obama will lay out his case for stimulus package in a speech.Reuters reports that…
9:00am ET
Economy
Is Consumer Spending Stabalizing? More Grand News For Wal-Mart (WMT) Apple (AAPL) And Amazon (AMZN), Bad News For Sears (SHLD)
One piece of data does not a trend make.The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Poll shows a little uptick last week. But, coming in the holidays, people’s spirits many be brightening. Come…
6:43am ET
Retail
Costco (COST): Making The Poor Feel Rich
Wal-Mart (WMT) reported strong same-store numbers for its most recently reported period. New data from MasterCard (MA) indicates that almost every other retailer in the country was bloodied during the early part…
8:15am ET
Retail
The Wal-Mart (WMT) Miracle Lives On
After Costco (COST) posted poor numbers for last month and almost every other large retailer in the US said that the early parts of the fourth quarter were bad and the future…
5:59am ET
Retail
Costco (COST), One Of Retail’s Last Hopes, Falters
The retailers who were supposed to do OK during the recession were the ones with the really, really good goods which were being sold at the really, really low prices.Wal-Mart (WMT) falls…
3:54am ET
Media
Media Digest 12/4/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, falling interest rates will not offset unemployment and falling prices to save to housing market.Reuters reports that GM (GM) and Chrysler are considering bankruptcy to get US funding.Reuters reports…
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Investing
CEO Of The Year Nominees: 4) H. Lee Scott Of Wal-Mart (WMT)
24/7 Wall St. will name its annual CEO of the Year next week. The executive will be picked from a field of ten which we will profile this weekThe CEOs are chosen…
10:11am ET
Retail
Should You Chase BJ’s? (BJ, COST, WMT)
BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc. (NYSE: BJ) appears to be one of the few standouts in retail right now. How many companies are in retail are beating already-raised guidance and still raising forecasts…
5:30pm ET
Industrials
New Warren Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Stocks A-H (AXP, BUD, BAC, BNI, KMX, KO, CMCSA, COP, CDCO, COST, GCI, GE, GSK, HD)
These are some of the changes we have seen in the holdings of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A). We have consolidated these into groups and this group is alphabetical from…
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Retail
As Consumer Spending Worsens, Sears (SHLD) Moves In The Cross Hairs
Consumer sentiment and consumer spending may be bad today, but according to a major new survey, they are going to get much worse over the next three months. Among the largest victims…
9:16am ET
Retail
Consumers Not Even Window Shopping (WMT, COST, TGT, SKS, JWN, JCP, KSS, DDS, M)
The retail sales numbers on Main Street are truly going to hell in a hand basket. The only bright spot is Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT), and that is just indicative of a…
11:21am ET
Retail
Store Closings Aside: Circuit City (CC) Can’t Make It To 2009
Today’s financial news headlines and stories are about how Circuit City (CC) is closing 155 stores in the hope of staying in business.The real story is in the fine print. Based on…
7:34am ET
Companies and Brands
Despite Economy, Costco Manages Impressive Sales Gains (COST)
Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST) is trading down over 1% pre-market, yet the upper-end big box retailer posted some very strong numbers. The company reported earnings of $0.97 per share before $0.07…
Douglas A. McIntyre