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The cabinet in India has set new rules that would allow large outside retailers like Walmart (NYSE: WMT) to own 51% of local multiproduct retail establishments. But it appears that parliament will...
Smartphone pioneer Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) has lowered its third-quarter guidance and said that it will take a “predominantly” non-cash charge of $485 million on its existing...
Most of America’s largest companies are also among its oldest companies. In fact, many of the Fortune 100 firms are more than a century old. Almost none were founded in the past 25 years, and not a...
Dividends are still rising and equity and income investors should expect more of the same for 2012. The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) joined in on the dividend hike brigade with another dividend...
The Monday following this year’s Thanksgiving, also known as Cyber Monday, was the highest-grossing online shopping day in U.S. history. According to research firm comScore, spending reached $1.25...
Europe may only have a week to rescue itself from financial disaster. The borrowing costs of Italy and Spain have been unsustainably high for too long. The stability fund established to back the debt...
It is clear that e-commerce sales growth has begun to race ahead of bricks-and-mortar revenue growth this holiday season. Comscore reports that Cyber Monday was “The Heaviest Online Spending Day In...
comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR)  reported U.S. retail e-commerce spending for the first 25 days of the November – December 2011 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $12.7 billion has been...
The sovereign debt forest fire moved to Hungary, the debt of which was downgraded to junk status by Moody’s . Other factors were even more important as the fate of the EU becomes more difficult....
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has waited for years to gain the ability to have 100% ownership in a large retail company in India. It should be careful what it wishes for. It has failed in its efforts to gain...
Many stores are planning to open early on Black Friday in an effort to get a jump on holiday shopping, but spending increases are not expected to rise more than 3% or so. In contrast, on-line,...
The purchasing managers indices of China, German and France all signaled slow growth or contraction in November. It is a sign that demand for exports and consumer expenditures are in free fall....
A new study by the National Federation of Retailers makes a prediction that runs counter to almost every other forecast of holiday shopping activity. The data shows that the number of people who...