Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) may have found a new friend. Standard & Poor’s has come out late in the day with a research note with “positive” credit implications for Jeff Bezos and friends. S&P…
The fun part of the holiday season that involves getting things on sale may be ending. Retailers have managed their inventories better than they did last year. Large stores will not be stuck with huge…
Short sellers could be on the run here in several retailers. Each day our software tracks stocks that have high short interest and are either short squeezes or potential short squeezes in a real…
McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) will offer free Wi-Fi at almost all of its U.S. restaurants starting early next year. Until now, the fast food chain has been charging $2.95 for two hours of service. McDonald’s U.S.A.…
Holiday sales seemed to be off to a promising start. Online research firms including comScore said that e-commerce sales were up 3% to 4% through the first week of December. The government said store-based shopping…
How can economists get a handle on holiday retail sales trends? Watch Christmas tree sales. The theory seems plausible. People who can afford to pay $20, $40, or $100 for a tree also probably are…
The McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) Dollar Meal has found a new home in the morning. A number of press reports quote the fast food chain management as saying that it will offer $1 breakfast meals beginning…
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) rose over 1.8% to a yearly high of $58.92 after it was announced that drinks made by the company will be sold again by Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ: COST)…
Tiger Woods has lost a lot of his friends, at least among the public. A new Rasmussen survey released today reports that a national telephone survey found that just 38% of Americans now have a favorable opinion…
Blockbuster (NYSE:BBI) has failed in the online DVD rental business and movie internet streaming business. The traffic to its thousands of stores is dropping rapidly and its cannot close locations fast enough. Long-term leases…
The hedge fund industry is back to having assets worth more than $2 trillion in November, according to Hedgefund.net. The gain of 3.39% came to $2.037 trillion for the hedge fund sector, making this…
McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) same-store sales have been one of the corporate bright spots during the recession. Now that the recovery in underway, the world’s largest fast food chain’s traffic has stagnated. In October, same-store sales…
It seems that the saga over the coffee buyout war is ending as it pertains to Diedrich Coffee, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDRX). Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEET) was set to respond by today…
Most data on holiday shopping activity show that e-commerce spending is up 4% to 5% compared to last year. Store-based sales are flat based on most industry information. America’s Research Group believes that the…
By Douglas A. McIntyre The days of $800 million e-commerce spending are back, presenting the possibility that online sales have made a significant rebound from last year. According to recent data from comScore, Cyber-Monday…