August 18, 2016: Markets opened higher Thursday after the Labor Department reported that weekly claims for jobless benefits came in lower than expected. The energy sector was the day’s leading gainer and…
Are hedge funds really warming up to equities again or are they just playing the only game in town? The top 50 hedge funds added less than 1% to their equities exposure…
The trouble is relentless across the brick-and-mortar retail world. Malls are closing or downsizing. At least six large retailers will have to merge, almost certainly in some combination with one another.
Wal-Mart reported better-than-expected second-fiscal quarter 2017 results before markets opened Thursday morning.
Paul Ausick Wal-Mart Stores is scheduled to release its most recent earnings report before the markets open on Thursday.
Chris Lange Here is how the new list of Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway's public share holding looks as of June 30, 2016.
Wall St. has put together a preview of Wal-Mart, Cisco and some of the other most anticipated quarterly reports scheduled for this week.
The list of layoffs by traditional retailers stretches ever longer. Almost every company blames e-commerce, which indirectly means Amazon.com.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit yet another all-time high on Thursday, August 11, 2016. What is amazing is that the rising tide did not actually lift all ships. There were over…
The number of shares sold short in J.C. Penney was more than 87 million on the most recent settlement date, nearly a third of the entire float.
To compete against the huge and powerful marketing machine of Amazon Prime, Wal-Mart needs a large branded streaming video service.
Amazon is so far ahead of Wal-Mart in the e-commerce business that the Jet.com deal will not affect it at all.
How does Wal-Mart's acquisition of Jet.com help it put a bigger dent in Amazon.com's hegemony in e-commerce?
Wal-Mart has the capacity to transform its online business. With its balance sheet and cash flow, Wal-Mart can do radical things.
Sometimes stocks reach valuations that are hard to justify, even if they are very well-known stocks that happen to be the market darlings of that time.
