Tuesday we’ll get to see earnings out of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT). The estimates from First Call are $1.02 EPS on $106.9 billion in revenues. Next quarter estimates are $0.74 EPS…
Sears (SHLD) has begun to hire some heavy hitters to run its online operations. Since the company does not do a very good job of selling merchandise in its stores, perhaps it…
Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) is managing to actually hold up well in an environment where almost all retail and consumer discretionary stocks are stinking up the stock exchanges. It seems that whether you…
Liz Clairborne Inc. (NYSE: LIZ) has made a key hire that might get some notice or kudos if it was a different environment. It appears that Liz has poached away Isaac Mizrahi…
When an industry says it is in a state of disarray, investors may want to head for the hills. As the National Retail Federation began its annual meeting, one of its consultants…
According to Reuters, Capital One has warned that it will have lower than expected earnings. Reuters reports that Goldman Sachs (GS) sees a recession this year. Reuters reports that Tata (TTM) has…
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) has announced some of its statistical results for the holiday shopping season. While it is labeled "it’s best ever holiday season," other stores around the country and around he web…
According to Reuters, Merrill Lynch (MER) raised enough money to increase its capital by $5.7 billion. Reuters writes that US shoppers came out in strength over the "Super Saturday" weekend. Sales on…
According to Reuters, retailers offering the sharpest discounts got the lion’s share of this year’s holiday customers. CostCo (COST) and Wal-Mart (WMT) made the list. The Wall Street Journal writes that a…
"Black Friday" was just a bad joke. Retail sales were good that day, but after a big pop, it has been downhill. Holiday spending dropped after that, and, in certain big specialty…
comScore today released data that shows households with incomes under $50,000 are not lifting their online spending much from the holiday season last year. Sales from this demographic group are up only…
The online e-commerce business is booming this year. The total value of goods bought online is up 19% for the period from November 1 through December 11 to $20.49 billion. This past…
December 6 was the biggest online sales day in history, at least according to comScore. Online buyers spent $803 million dollars that day. up 28% from the same day last year. It…
These aren’t the only analyst calls we are watching, but these are the top ten that 247wallst.com is reviewing: Activision (NASDAQ: ATVI) raised to Buy from Neutral at Piper Jaffray. Hansen Natural…
There is no crying in baseball or whining in big business. Sears CEO Aylwin Lewis said, regarding the company’s 99% drop in earnings in the last quarter: "We are very disappointed in…
