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U.S. retailers have begun announcing expected seasonal hiring totals for the coming holiday season.
Of the 40 worst performers in the S&P 500 so far in 2019, 11 are tied to oil and gas, 10 tied mostly to retailing of apparel and accessories, and six are tied to pharmaceuticals and biotech.
24/7 Wall St. has tracked the action and reaction seen in many luxury brands on Monday. The drop has been unilateral, and that has been confirmed by luxury stocks selling off in Europe as well.
Shares of the so-called gun stocks have reacted to the news of two mass shootings over the weekend, even if they look muted compared with prior reactions to mass shootings.
Amazon Prime Days are upon us, and shoppers should remember that a lot of fake goods are sold by the company's Marketplace sellers and that can be both costly and dangerous.
Etsy aims to compete with Amazon, eBay and other merchants with more free shipping initiatives, and it just might help its gross merchandise sales numbers.
Analysts are chasing Shopify price targets higher and higher. This mega-growth stock is now trading at close to 600 times expected earnings and almost 25 times sales, but Wall Street is willing to...
Grocery Outlet shares entered the market with a bang. The firm priced its shares at $22 apiece, which was above the expected price range of $17 to $19, although shares actually entered the market at...
May's reading on retail sales did manage to post a 0.5% seasonally adjusted gain. That's the good news.
Retail sales are often volatile on a monthly reporting basis, and the markets are getting to deal with a fresh round of negative news when it comes to the consumer spending habits of Americans.
Used-car seller CarMax reported better than expected earnings Friday morning, but revenues were a bit light. Investors didn't seem to mind.
The largest U.S. seller of cars and other light vehicles is not a car dealership, but a membership club that sells everything from soup to nuts.
McDonald's just bought a tech company that can change store menus based on what customers might add to menu items they have already selected or what people are more likely to order in the morning or...
The latest survey of auto dealers indicates that they have cheered up a bit about their prospects since the fourth quarter of last year, but their overall outlook remains slightly negative and...
How Amazon might be broken up is easy to imagine and it already operates in three discrete enterprises that do not need to be together to prosper.