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Retail
More Coal In The Stocking For Holidays
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…
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Investing
What’s Important Today (10/26/2011) Nokia’s New Phone, Berlusconi’s Trouble, Luxury Cars
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…
3:01pm ET
Retail
Expected Upside Gains for Leading Retailers (COST, WMT, TGT, M, JWN, KSS, BBY)
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…
3:34am ET
Retail
The Retailers Hiring the Most Workers This Holiday Season
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…
1:32pm ET
Investing
The Frontlines in a US-China Trade War (WMT, TGT, BTU, ACI, FCX, RIO, WY, PCL, ADM, BG, CAT, DE, GM, F, GE)
While the debate rages over whether or not the U.S. should enact legislation aimed to curb currency manipulation — and specifically the Chinese peg to the U.S. dollar — the impact of…
10:25am ET
Investing
Value Conundrum: Dollar Store M&A Creates High Premium in Sector (NDN, APO, KKR, BRK-A, WMT, DG, FDO, DLTR, BIG, TUES, M, TGT)
99 Cents Only Stores (NYSE: NDN) was supposed to be acquired for somewhere between $22.00 and $24.00 per share according to reports in mid-September. The company was supposed to have interest from Apollo…
9:14am ET
Retail
Holiday Retail Sales Growth Forecast — Half Last Year’s Total (TGT, M, JWN, JCP, DDS, LTD, GPS, SSI, ZUMZ, BKE, COST)
Retail sales for the coming holiday season are expected to be about 3% higher than 2010 sales. Not bad, considering that US GDP growth predictions are now below 2%; not good, either,…
8:56am ET
Investing
Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (JCP, ERIC, TGT, YHOO)
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of JC Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP), LM Ericsson Telephone Company (NASDAQ:…
8:53am ET
Companies and Brands
Do Costco’s Earnings Spell Trouble? (COST, WMT, TGT, BBY, DG)
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…
10:05am ET
Investing
Seasonal Retail Jobs Likely Softer (TGT, M, KSS, JCP, BBY, SHLD, TJX, XRT)
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…
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Companies and Brands
Hard Times Live On… Layaway Makes a Comeback (WMT, SHLD, TGT, BBY, TJX, LOW, DG, DLTR, FDO)
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…
6:18am ET
Media
Media Digest (10/4/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
World stock markets hit 15-month lows. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to launch the iPhone 5 as competition grows from Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android. (Reuters) China warns of a trade war if Congress…
12:31pm ET
Investing
America’s Most Dysfunctional Boards
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…
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Investing
Holiday Retail Outlook Debate: Shippers Versus Retailers (WMT, TGT, SSW, DAC)
The outlook for US holiday season retail sales is either good or not so good, depending on whom you ask. Cargo container shipping has been slow in July and August, leading to…
1:53pm ET
Media
Traffic Trends For Top 50 Web Sites (SCOR, GOOG, YHOO, MSFT, AOL, AMZN, EBAY, WMT, TGT, NYT, GCI, WPO, NFLX)
Web site visitors didn’t set any records last month, but they also didn’t lose any ground. Among the leading sites, some had small gains and others had small losses. Overall though, more…