The bottom line is volatility at higher levels may be here to stay for some time. Owning low-multiple, dividend-paying blue chip leaders makes good sense for long-term growth portfolios.
The holiday season will be modest this year for most of the retail industry. For J.C. Penney and Sears, will modest be enough?
Credit Suisse is adding some top conservative dividend-paying stocks to its Top Picks list, and that is right in line with what other top Wall Street firms are doing.
Wal-Mart has announced that 450 home office staff will lose their jobs in order to make the retailer "more nimble organization,"
Paul Ausick American Express announced Thursday morning that it has reached an agreement under which Sam’s Club stores will begin accepting Amex cards.
GameStop will add 28,000 holiday workers for 2015, evidence that its business model is thriving.
It is too early to see if together all major retailers will add the 600,000 that would signal a season in which sales are flat.
Macy's said Monday that the company plans to hire about 85,000 seasonal employees this year.
Demands for a wage of $15 an hour and full-time work will again be the focus of job actions by a worker group organized to push for the changes at Wal-Mart.
Paul Ausick Wal-Mart will add 60,000 new "seasonal" workers, which is the start of holiday additions by big-box retailers and department stores.
Douglas A. McIntyre Troubled Toys R Us continues to bleed. The company's management claims it has a brighter future, a position hard to defend, given its competition.
The strength of retail sales in the fourth quarter of each year is a benchmark for how well the U.S. consumer economy is doing.
Here we take a look at a few club or club-type memberships, how much they cost and how much members might expect to save.
Yahoo’s lesson should be to dig for more loopholes so it can breathe. It is not Wal-Mart. It can shelter its income overseas it wants to.
Any troubled retailer has to have stores that do not make money. And at the top of that list are J.C. Penney and Sears.
