J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP) is a company which many investors and outsiders expect to be in a transformation.  The first such addition under new management is a stake and investment in...
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has put six department store companies on CreditWatch with negative implications and has changed the outlook on three department store companies to...
Bill Ackman and his Pershing Square could soon become a much more formidable activist when it comes to dealing with companies.  Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) might have not been one of...
Source: courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.There has always been a Wall St. trend for the spotlight to shine on the smartest guy in the room at any given time. Whether they be one hit wonders or masters of...
The world’s largest restaurant chain, McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) has confirmed that it is testing mobile payments at 30 of its stores in France. McDonald’s has about 30,000 stores all around...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning: BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE: BHP) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank. Dean...
Source: Jon OggThese are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls.Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) started as Outperform at...
A number of retailers reported earnings this morning, and the results might be summarized as “mixed” at best. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD), Saks Inc. (NYSE: SKS),...
Source: courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.All industries in American business change and evolve over time. In some cases it is due to technological change, internal change within the specific industry,...
These are this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Canadian National Railway Company (NYSE: CNI) Cut to Sector Peform at CIBC. Celgene...
Source: Jon OggOne of the biggest complaints for years about Wall St. research was that no firm ever said when to sell. Back in the halcyon days of the late 1980s, and through the 1990s, many stock...
Retail may be getting another good month of numbers for February 2011 if Retail Metrics is correct.  The research firm noted, “Expectations for discounters, department stores, drug chains and...
Source: ThinkstockEvery firm on Wall St. has a list of stocks that need to be bought for one reason or another. We keep our readers abreast of those lists, because many of the large firms we have...
Investors are going to get to see some very pleasant surprises on the same store sales data for the month of March 2010 from major retailers.  The media will likely tout this as further evidence of...