ThinkstockIf anyone wants to understand the advantage Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has over rivals who sell merchandise online, he only has to look at traffic data. Amazon has more than twice the number of…
ThinkstockThe DJIA has finally closed above 16,000 for the first time ever. With a light holiday week coming up and with year-end just around the corner, investors have to consider research ideas…
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) decided to hammer its competition by matching some Black Friday prices one week before Black Friday. The move could drive down Walmart’s margins on…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThis week will be a busy one as far as earnings, but this is also marks the beginning of the end for corporate earnings. We also still have…
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.This summer, thousands of fast-food workers in the United States went on strike in cities across the country, demanding their wages be increased to $15 an hour and…
ThinkstockThe Piper Jaffray consumer research team was given some help from the technology research team and has laid out an initial holiday road map for investors in a new research report. They…
MicrosoftThe Xbox One is scheduled to launch on Nov. 22, but apparently a few lucky buyers have received their preordered consoles early. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) blamed it on a shipping error…
courtesy Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Holiday shoppers are expected to spend about 3.9% more this year than they did last year, according to a National Retail Federation estimate. And in order to facilitate the…
ThinkstockNo matter what customers are in the market for on Thanksgiving Day, a store where they can buy that special or not-so-special something will be open at least part of the day. From…
courtesy of TargetTarget Corp. (NYSE: TGT) said Monday morning that it plans to open its stores at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, an hour earlier than it has opened in the past.…
ThinkstockThe conventional wisdom about Thanksgiving and Black Friday winners and losers is easy to agree with to some extent. Shoppers will flock to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) in greater numbers year after year…
courtesy Deere & Co.UBS has a list of stocks that investors may want to consider selling. They could even be a list of short sale candidates. The UBS team is bashing Apache…
ThinkstockKmart and Sears, the two major divisions of Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) will join the group of large retailers that hope to move the start of the holiday season closer and…
ThinkstockWhy wait for Black Friday or Cyber Monday to start holiday shopping? That is the question Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) would like shoppers to consider. Walmart has decided to kick things…
Electronic Arts Inc.The excitement around the staggering dollars that hot new video releases bring in is soon to be joined by hot new video gaming platforms. Rumors have circulated around the devices,…
