There are many issues on deck for The Unusual Suspects that are carryover issues from Friday or which have events on the schedule. This week’s Unusual Suspects for the week ahead covers…
Retailers are reporting July sales figures this morning, and so far there’s not a lot of excitement. July is the time when stores clear out summer merchandise to stock up on back-to-school…
Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) and Best Buy Co (NYSE: BBY) tried to suck up to State Rep. Ron Emmer, a conservative Republican who has a good chance of becoming the next governor…
One of three respondents in a recent survey said they would spend less on consumer goods over the next 90 days than they said they would in June. The drop was 6…
The June audience of ESPN.com soared to 30.6 million unique visitors as people checked out the World Cup online, according to research firm comScore. That moved it ahead of well-known sites including…
Short sellers pushed back into banks and other financial firms during the period that ended on July 15. It may be that they sensed earnings would be weak. Or, that the recent…
Retail sales reports for the month of June are arriving thick and fast this morning, but the news is lukewarm at best and the outlook for the back-to-school season is soft. Consumer…
For a while there, during the economic downturn that started in the second half of 2008, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) looked like it had found a large number of new customers for…
Reuters: The White House budget director will leave. Reuters: China’s state-owned banks are buying dollars. Reuters: Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and the FTC are in talks to settle a market abuse case. Reuters: …
So much for a double-dip recession, or at least that is what the waves of new share buybacks and dividend hikes from big key companies are saying. In recent days we have…
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) plans to help 1.4 million of its US workers to get a higher education. The company announced that “Walmart’s Lifelong Learning Program will make it more convenient and more…
These are some of this morning’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning: Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) Raised to Buy at UBS. Blue…
Earnings season is already winding down, but don’t think it is over yet. Next week we still have much in retail and we still have DJIA components and major tech companies reporting…
There are many movers today, but a lack of the double-digit gainers and losers we have seen. The movers on news this Thursday for day traders and active traders are ADC Telecommunications…
Amazon (NASAQ: AMZN) announced that it would begin to sell its Kindle digital book reader in some Target (NYSE: TGT) stores. The news was viewed as a big “win” for Amazon, which has…
