Over 50% of holiday shoppers are wandering through malls baiting retailers. They are saying "We are here, but we ain’t buying yet." Reuters writes that consumer-behavior marketing firm America’s Research Group found…
There is a ton of value that ETF’s bring to the table. They trade like stocks, they have lower fees, they are usually more transparent, and more when you compare these to…
Douglas A. McIntyre 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…
Mr. Schultz: 24/7 Wall St. has been going to Starbucks (SBUX) stores and doing evaluations for some time. Obviously, the current model at US stores is not working very well. The stock…
According to comScore, "online retail spending was strong on both Thanksgiving Day (up 29 percent to $272 million) and “Black Friday” (up 22 percent to $531 million), outpacing the season-to-date growth rate."…
It is always interesting seeing which groups and which stocks saw the biggest changes in short interest. This list doesn’t show financials because we’ve already shown that individually. Here are some of…
Short interest for stocks traded on the NYSE was up about 3% for the period ending November 15 compared to the October 31 numbers. Bets against big financials sky-rocketed, and positions in…
Sears Holdings (SHLD) appears to be making a play to buy specialty retailer Restoration Hardware. (RSTO). Catterton Partners has already agreed to pay $6.70 for the company. But, when work got out…
Shares of discount retailer Big Lots (NYSE:BIG) are seeing shares get hit pretty hard in a crummy discretionary spending environment. The 2.1% drop to $19.98 is under the $20.21 52-week low, and…
Perhaps Americans thought they would never hear it, but the Chinese have admitted that US consumption is one of the critical engines of the Asian country’s 10% annual GDP growth rate. And,…
Wal-Mart (WMT) reported its sales and earnings for the quarter ended Oct. 31, 2007. Net sales for the third quarter of fiscal year 2008 were approximately $90.9 billion, an increase of 8.8…
Douglas A. McIntyre Wal-Mart (WMT) is giving its workers better healthcare benefits. According to The New York Times "Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, provides insurance to 100,000 more workers than it did just three…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, News Corp (NWS) CEO Rupert Murcoch says the company is having a strong quarter. Reuters writes that Yahoo! (YHOO) has entered partnerships to expand its mobile business across Asia.…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) is set to report earnings before the open on Tuesday morning. There is a discrepancy on earnings consensus, because the WSJ shows a FactSet consensus at $0.66 EPS…
Douglas A. McIntyre Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) just posted same-store-sales figures for October. On an ex-fuel basis the total sales came in +0.4%, which is broken down as 0.0% at Wal-Mart Stores and +2.7% at…
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