Better economies do not always help all players. The grocery business is already one which operates on razor-thin margins, so any hiccup can cause great pain for investors in the food segment…
Jon C. Ogg There has been just as much written about e-commerce as there is about bricks-and-mortar sales this holiday season, if a quick read of online business sites and financial publications is any indication…
Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) is getting clipped after its earnings report and guidance is not as rewarding to some of the highest bulls out there. An obvious secondary offering which should…
Analysis of Spending Growth Among Top 25 Online Retail Sites Nov. 1-29, 2010 vs. Corresponding Days in 2009 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore, Inc. Spending Growth Dollar Share 2009 2010…
What’s driving holiday sales at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT)? We took a look at some of the best sellers at Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) yesterday, and thought it would be interesting…
Movie studios hope for, plan for, and pray for that blockbuster film that will pay everyone’s bonuses for the year. For retailers, a blockbuster like, say, the Cabbage Patch dolls, are both…
Investors have tried for years to follow the strategy of Warren Buffett, considered by many to be the greatest investor in history. That’s ironic given how little he seems to care about…
Just two months ago Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) revealed that it had made a non-binding offer of $4.6 billion to acquire South Africa’s Massmart Holdings Ltd. Almost immediately resistance surfaced from…
Jon C. Ogg Reuters: ECB executives sought to calm capital markets and assure them that the Ireland bailout should stabilize the euro. Reuters: Online bargain hunting has spread beyond CyberMonday. Reuters: Members of the President’s…
Insider selling by millionaire and billionaire corporate insiders is already rising, but it is about to go through the roof. Forget the politics and forget the morale left behind as a result,…
Earlier this month, while everyone’s attention was focused on the midterm elections, the US Department of Education published proposed new rules governing access to federal direct and federally guaranteed student loans. The…
Several experts estimate that as many as 130 million shoppers will visit stores or online retail sites on Black Friday. The number is deceiving. The National Retail Federation expects the holiday sales…
via Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is hoping to take the guesswork out of making hit movies. According to the Wall Street Journal, the world’s largest Internet retailer is setting up a…
Updated throughout the day. India and Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) are closer to settling their Blackberry communications dispute (Reuters) Wal-mart (NYSE: WMT) is closer to the purchase of Indonesia retailer Matahari.…
Douglas A. McIntyre The GM IPO may be the largest in US history (Reuters) Fed officials defended their plan to lower rates (Reuters) Bonds issues by Ireland may have great value in the case of…