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Retailers are reporting July sales figures this morning, and so far there’s not a lot of excitement. July is the time when stores clear out summer merchandise to stock up on back-to-school gear....
Short sellers pushed back into banks and other financial firms during the period that ended on July 15. It may be that they sensed earnings would be weak. Or, that the recent financial reform...
There are several stocks on the move in after-hours trading tonight.  Some are on earnings and some are carry-over trades on the surface.  We have reviewed the moves and added color in on...
Retail sales reports for the month of June are arriving thick and fast this morning, but the news is lukewarm at best and the outlook for the back-to-school season is soft. Consumer worries over jobs...
Earnings season is already winding down, but don’t think it is over yet.  Next week we still have much in retail and we still have DJIA components and major tech companies reporting earnings. ...
These are this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) Raised to Buy at Citigroup. ARM Holdings (NASDAQ: ARMH) Cut...
Today’s Retail Business Daily has a roundup of names in the retail sector that are responding to changes and news in the Industry. The market continues to improve for many top retailers. A...
These are this Thursday’s top ten analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Aixtron Aktiengesellschaft (NASDAQ: AIXG) Started as Buy at UBS....
A look at the “hardest working” major brands for 2009 shows that a number of them belong to companies which have done poorly and, in at least one case, may file Chapter 11. This is due to the...
PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) is the latest of the big companies to hike their dividend payouts this morning.  We have not kept an exact tally, but this is getting close to 70 of the S&P 500...
Everyone, or at least most everyone, loves dividends.  While some investors love share buybacks, dividends seem to be the new way we are seeing for companies to reward shareholders.  The good news...
Companies seemed to prefer share buybacks in 2007 and 2008, and maybe part of 2009.  Why not, if the stock is cheap?  But then 2009 came and many companies were derailed by the recession and that...
Large consumer companies spend a great deal of marketing money on creating, preserving, and increasing the image of their brands. If a product has problems, the process does not always work. Toyota...
These are this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank. CIENA Corp. (NASDAQ:...
Customer satisfaction with the e-commerce operations at Neiman Marcus and Sears (NASDAQ:SHLD) was particularly bad this shopping season based on research covering the 40 largest US retailers based...