Retail may be getting another good month of numbers for February 2011 if Retail Metrics is correct. The research firm noted, “Expectations for discounters, department stores, drug chains and specialty apparel all…
Many shareholders argue that share repurchase and stock buyback plans are generally a waste of shareholder capital aimed solely as a short-term share price targeting mechanism. Many would prefer to see dividends. …
Customer satisfaction in the retail and online e-commerce industries is getting worse. There is no single reason for this, but it is likely that the recent economic downturn is one of the…
ASML Holding (NASDAQ: ASML) cut from “buy” to “neutral” by Goldman Sachs. BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP), in the midst of a takeover bid for Potash (NYSE: POT) was downgraded by HSBC to…
The great majority of the largest companies in America are easily identified by name by most consumers. That is because their names match one or more of their most important brands. McDonald’s…
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…
Earnings are in today from a number of retailers, not all of which are blazing, but all are better than a year ago. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT), Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:…
We often cover companies raising dividends and announcing new stock buyback plans. We did see some dividend hikes this week, but there are also many unique dividend stories from this week which…
It’s been a while since we covered Jim Cramer on CNBC’s MAD MONEY, probably for multiple reasons other than many of his shows seemed to be taped educational pieces. But tonight after…
These are this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from early Wall Street research calls. There were several banking and broker-on-broker cuts: Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:…
These are the ten top analyst calls in upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this Friday from Wall Street research calls: AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) Started as Outperform at Bernstein.…
These are this Tuesday morning’s top pre-market analyst upgrades, initiations, or relatively positive research calls from Wall Street: AFLAC (NYSE: AFL) Raised to Neutral from Sell at UBS. America Movil (NYSE: AMX)…
These are some of the top pre-market analyst comments and analyst upgrades from Wall Street early this Tuesday morning: Cardinal Health (CAH) Started as Buy at Jefferies. Central Garden (CENT) Raised to…
Twelve of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women. Just twelve. Over the next year, that number is likely to go up considerably because of a confluence of economic and financial factors that…
We are still seeing overall weak trends in the retail sector. This is no shock based upon the overall drop in the economy and the growing army of unemployed workers out there. …
