Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) has announced some of its statistical results for the holiday shopping season.  While it is labeled "it’s best ever holiday season," other stores around...
The long slow death march at Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is turning into a case study of what not do.  Putting a hedge fund manager in charge of a huge retailer, and then letting the...
Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) posted a 52-week low on the first trading day after the downgrade of US debt. That low point might not last too long given the company’s second quarter earnings...
Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) reported second-quarter earnings per share (EPS) of $1.12 and $16.78 billion in revenues before markets opened this morning. In the same period a year ago, the big-box...
No one is likely to be happy with all of the same-store sales coming from the big retailers. Wal-mart (WMT) said its sales in February would be up 1% to 2%. After a decent January, the market was...
Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) has just come out with earnings at $0.82 EPS on $15.47 Billion in revenues versus First Call estimates of $0.76 EPS and $15.46 Billion in revenues.  The company’s retail...
Target Corp. (NYSE:TGT) reports earnings on Tuesday, and it traded up with the broader market today.  Shares closed up 2.3% at $61.18.  First Call is expecting EPS to be $0.80 on revenues...
Target Corp. (NYSE:TGT) reported in-line earnings and gave guidance that was basically in-line with prior targets.  The retail giant posted $0.80 EPS against $0.80 estimates, and revenues were...
Yahoo!’s (YHOO-NASDAQ) Head of Technology and Chief Technology Officer, Farzad Nazem, is leaving the company effective June 8, 2007.  The filing says he will "continue to provide...
ITT Educational Services was absolutely clobbered on Monday. Things have been bad for years in the for-profit secondary education market, and now we have a whole set of fresh concerns to worry about.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging that ITT Educational Services, the for-profit college chain, engages in "predatory student lending." On Thursday the...
Plus, embattled COP28 chief hires PR gloss to offset oil controversy.
Heat waves swung through Phoenix the week and pushed temperatures as high as 110 degrees Fahrenheit. In New Delhi, India, the temperature rose close to 120 but was pushed down fairly quickly by...
Branding counts. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) could probably do well selling tea pots. Sharper Image is still around, but its brand is so tarnished that it could not give away many of the ultra-modern home...