This morning brought earnings from two key DJIA components.  The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) are seeing similar trends and the two are seeing similar reactions...
Home Depot (HD) and Lowe’s (LOW) were big losers when ForeSee Results polled 20,000 people to ask about their satisfaction with online retail sites. On a scale where 100 is the highest rank,...
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. (NYSE: MSO) has a new exclusive product lineup partner. We still want to know where Martha will end up after the K-Mart deal she has with Sears Holdings (NASDAQ:...
Dow component Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) and Lowe’s Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) probably would have been soft today with or without an analyst downgrade.  The housing data is not compelling enough...
It seems impossible that a handful of companies could put nearly 80,000 people out of work in a day. Caterpillar (CAT), Pfizer (PFE), Texas Instruments (TXN), Sprint (S), and Home Depot (HD) did most...
Source: Jon OggMost investors are likely glad that 2012 is here to have 2011 behind them.  This is an election year and many investors are wondering whether the U.S. and its large companies can...
The collapse of the US housing market has been among the most stubborn problems facing the US economy for the past four years. Construction jobs have vanished, home values have plummeted, and buyers...
Lowe’s Companies (NYSE:LOW) reports earnings on Monday and First Call estimates put earnings at $0.61 EPS on revenues of $14.1 Billion.  Estimates for the following quarter are $0.47 EPS...
The housing data keeps coming in with a mixed fan-fare.  The new home sales in America for the month of February fell 1.6% to 313,000 versus a Dow Jones consensus target of 325,000.  January was...
Amazon.com announced an all-new version of its Fire HD tablet Thursday morning that may be as impressive the new iPhone 7.
This week will be an important earnings week for building supply and home improvement companies.  We’ll get to see earnings out of Lowe’s Co. (NYSE: LOW) and out of Home Depot (NYSE:...
If you look at the GE and Home Depot charts since Jack Welch left, HD has actually outperformed GE by a bit. That is not taking into account dividends and GE’s Genworth spin-off, but the chart...
The US Census Bureau reported this morning that retail sales in May fell by -0.2% month-over-month. Compared with May 2011, however, retail sales rose by 5.3%. For the three-month period of March...