ThinkstockIn a terse press statement Friday morning, Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) said that it has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to spin off its Land’s End stores in a…
courtesy of Starbucks Corp.Got a coffee lover on your holiday gift list? Then Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) has you covered. For Cyber Week 2013, that is through December 6, Starbucks has a buy one…
ThinkstockBig Lots Inc. (NYSE: BIG) reported third-quarter fiscal 2013 results after markets closed Thursday evening. The discount retailer posted an adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) loss of $0.16 and $1.15 billion in revenues.…
ThinkstockMany holiday season analysts point to the skies to determine how well retail sales may do. Their logic is that very bad weather will keep people out of malls and shopping centers. Many of…
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.News comes out of J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) every day, making it one of the longest running dramas in American businesses — one that is now more than…
Dollar General Corp. (NYSE: DG) keeps continuing to amaze investors and skeptics alike. The company’s post-earnings report reaction was very different from Dollar Tree Inc. (NASDAQ: DLTR). What is happening is that some value…
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.On Wednesday the head of hedge fund Hayman Capital Management, Kyle Bass, pointed to General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) as a stock with nearly 40% upside to its current price.…
ThinkstockRetailers are announcing November same-store sales Thursday and, once again, J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP), which reported a strong gain of 10.1% on Monday, is getting lashed. We’ve noted before that Penney’s gain…
ThinkstockProtests and strikes by fast-food workers are expected to spread to 100 U.S. cities Thursday. This comes a little more than a year after a strike in New York, when 200 workers walked off…
courtesy Wal-Mart Stores Inc.The holiday season seems as good a time as any to question whether Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) can afford to pay its workforce, some of whom make as little as…
Wikimedia CommonsWithout mentioning a single fact, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) said Wednesday morning that the past weekend’s shopping was the best ever for its Kindle family of products. Fact-free announcements are standard procedure for…
ThinkstockSpecialty apparel retailer Express Inc. (NYSE: EXPR) saw its shares get crushed in premarket trading Wednesday morning. The company reported third-quarter results before markets opened, missing the earnings per share estimate by $0.02 but…
ThinkstockProtests demanding a minimum wage of $15 an hour from fast-food restaurants will begin Wednesday with demonstrations at McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) restaurants in five U.S. cities — Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Los…
courtesy of TargetMany retail stocks are higher over the past month. Investors have either received hard news, or have seen forecasts, that the largest companies in the sector, which include Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:…
ThinkstockCyber Monday online holiday sales reached $1.735 billion, which is an increase of 18% from 2012 and a record. J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) said its same-store sales rose 10% in November, which…