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The US unemployment rate in September was 6.1%. The consensus estimates are that the numbers will rise, but there are…
Sears (SHLD) is already one of the weakest retailers in the US. Firms such as Wal-Mart (WMT) and Best Buy…
Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) has confirmed that activist Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square has shared various ideas for an alternative ownership structure…
Analysts assume third quarter earnings for the companies in the S&P 500 will be bad. But, looking at the number…
According to Reuters, the US is looking at guaranteeing billions of dollars of bank debt and temporarily insuring all bank…
Santa will be thinner this year, a sign that he cannot afford all that rich food. It is a good…
"Everyday low prices" are getting out of hand. Wal-Mart (WMT) already is cutting what it charges for toys and the…
Circuit City (CC) sacked the CEO who ran the company for the past four years. Philip Schoonover held every important…
Hope is a fine human emotion until it moves to lunacy. A psychosis of optimism has seized the retail industry.…
The evidence that sales at many companies are struggling and that employment will suffer are almost everywhere. Recently, a division…
With the trading year almost half over and results from the first quarter out, 24/7 Wall St. has created the…
Today’s 52-week low list was full of some of the usual suspects, and you can count airlines as the top…
According to Reuters, merger talks between United (UAUA) and US Air (LCC) has been halted. Reuters reports that a US…
Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) posted a loss this morning, and it is being reflected in the shares. The retail…
The hallmark of some of the most successful companies over the last fifty years is that the CEOs spent a…
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