Retailers are poised to add around 755,000 temporary workers this holiday season, in line with last year’s job additions, according to staffing experts Challenger Gray & Christmas. The only company that is…
Kohl's is scheduled to report its fiscal third-quarter financial results before the markets open on Thursday.
Is Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) ready to leave Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) in the dust? That is the question investors might be wondering on Monday.
Monday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Bankrate, FireEye, First Data, Pier 1, Regions Financial, Stratasys, Target, Wal-Mart and ZS Pharma.
Sears Holdings' shares have fallen 7% in the past month and are down 45% over the past year. Among the major concerns about the company is its competition.
Target management must believe that holiday season sales will not lift the prospects of all its stores equally. It will close 13 of them.
Target has almost no footprint overseas. Management has a plan that it believes can make that shortcoming disappear.
Wal-Mart's growth in both revenue and earnings has ended, and management can hold back the tide briefly, but only briefly.
GameStop will add 28,000 holiday workers for 2015, evidence that its business model is thriving.
It is too early to see if together all major retailers will add the 600,000 that would signal a season in which sales are flat.
Macy's said Monday that the company plans to hire about 85,000 seasonal employees this year.
Troubled Toys R Us continues to bleed. The company's management claims it has a brighter future, a position hard to defend, given its competition.
The strength of retail sales in the fourth quarter of each year is a benchmark for how well the U.S. consumer economy is doing.
Any troubled retailer has to have stores that do not make money. And at the top of that list are J.C. Penney and Sears.
With Wal-Mart's thin margins, some of its stores probably lose money. At the bottom end of the Wal-Mart network, financially, some locations are not worth keeping open.
