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Walmart Inc

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Retail

Amazon.com: Where Market Share Trumps Profits

http://www.amazon.com/amazon-coinsAnalysts and pundits (ahem!) are spending a good part of Friday morning extolling the virtues of the earnings report from Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) that was released after markets closed the previous…

Paul Ausick
6:50am ET
Retail

FedEx Forecasts Early Peak in Holiday Shipping

By Tkgd2007 at en.wikipedia , from Wikimedia CommonsFedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) expects December 2 to be its peak shipping day this holiday season. Most analysts believe this means e-commerce will rob bricks-and-mortar companies of sales.…

Douglas A. McIntyre
8:20am ET
Consumer Electronics

Poor Apple iPhone 5c Sales May Spell Trouble

courtesy of Apple Inc.Display Search, which is a worldwide leader in global market research and consulting, says that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has cut back iPhone 5c orders by 35%. Many on…

Lee Jackson
6:43am ET
Retail

How Badly Do Christmas Retail Sales Get Hit?

ThinkstockThe CEO of the National Retail Federation, Matthew Shay, penned a letter that stated the organization’s position on how badly its members could be harmed by the government shutdown and lack of a long-term resolution.…

Douglas A. McIntyre
4:44pm ET
Retail

Reality Sets In For Wal-Mart Growth Expectations

courtesy Making Change at Walmart and UFCWWhen you are running Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) it must be frustrating about how hard it is to grow this company much further. There are…

WMT
Jon C. Ogg
12:10pm ET
Retail

More Stores Opening on Thanksgiving

ThinkstockThanksgiving has been one of those holidays in America that has long been considered sacred as a day off of work for just about everyone short of skeleton hospital crews and traffic…

Jon C. Ogg
6:45am ET
Investing

The Only Seven Earnings Reports That Really Matter

Wikimedia CommonsThe general investing public will spend much of its energy waiting for earnings from famous companies such as Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) and J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP). These are…

Douglas A. McIntyre
2:02pm ET
Energy

IKEA to Sell Solar Panels

ThinkstockSwedish do-it-yourself furniture store IKEA will begin selling home solar panel kits in the U.K. over the next 10 months. The kit will cost about $9,200 and generate 3,360 watts of electricity.…

WMT
Paul Ausick
6:16am ET
Media

Why Huge Corporations Fail Miserably on Twitter

TwitterIn among the major and minor celebrities, news media outlets, the Pope and President Obama, there are no huge corporations with substantial followings on Twitter. As a matter of fact, among the…

Douglas A. McIntyre