Carrefour is not as large as Walmart but it is large enough to be a proxy for retail sales in its home market of Europe. And, Europe is done badly Carrefour appointed a new CEO.…
Douglas A. McIntyre A thirty-year tradition at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is about to be scrapped as the company eliminates its door greeters from the overnight shift. The company is trying to shore up…
Paul Ausick Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) has been a disaster of a stock over the long-term, but it is off to one incredibly strong recovery in share prices in 2012. The trough to…
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is making a series of management changes today. While this is not the CEO level of the whole company, CEO Mike Duke noted, “Current Sam’s Club President…
Jon C. Ogg For the people who invent gadgets the big problem is not usually having enough ideas, it’s not being able to get your latest gadget onto store shelves. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT)…
Paul Ausick After diving by -8.5% in one day in late December, Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) has reversed that loss on speculation that the venerable retailer will be taken private. Sears has steadily…
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) added a new CEO to oversee its e-commerce operations. The general perception is that this business should be more competitive with Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN). That will be hard to accomplish in…
China’s economy expands at a better-than-expected 8.9% in Q4 and area markets soared. (Reuters) Walmart (NYSE: WMT) appoints a former CBS (NYSE: CBS) digital executive as head of its digital operations. (Reuters) Disapproval…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) wanted to buy South Africa’s Massmart chain for about $4.6 billion in 2010. The chain countered with an offer for Walmart to buy 51% for about $2…
When a group including movie studios and streaming video companies released a new streaming format called UltraViolet last October hardly anyone noticed. That’s likely to change now that Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has…
99 Cents Only Stores (NYSE: NDN) is set to report earnings on Wednesday. We still want to know if the trap of Family Dollar Stores Inc. (NYSE: FDO) will come into play…
Each January, 24/7 Wall St. forecasts the publicly traded U.S. companies that will have the highest profits in the year ahead. This year, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is likely to pass Exxon Mobil…
It takes a recession to slow what has normally been runaway U.S. health care costs. The trend may be part of a road map to keep costs down. These costs have risen at close…
Douglas A. McIntyre It seems that most investors have started adding income or dividend reinvestment plans to their portfolios by using dividend stocks. With the yields of the 10-Year Treasury close to 2% and the…
Big box retailer Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) posted a same-store sales gain of 1.6% for December, well short of the consensus estimate of 3.1%. This compares with a 7% same-store sales gain…