Last fall, two major U.S.
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March 6 - News
J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP)'s recent quarter may have been one for the record books, and not in a good way.
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March 6 - News
Speculation is rising around how Barnes & Noble is going to shake up its retail operations.
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March 6 - News
Today looked like it was going to start off decisively negative, with China's cabinet voting to make it more difficult for investors in the country to purchase a second home.
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March 4 - News
Today started off bleak, with the sequester threatening to put a monkey wrench in the markets' four-year long rebound.
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March 1 - News
The market has reacted to the imminent sequestration deadline with a lackadaisical shrug.
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March 1 - News
Over the past five years, electronics retailer Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) has unwillingly become the poster boy of dying big box retailers.
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March 1 - News
In the January/February issue of the Harvard Business Review, three scholars from INSEAD in France compiled a ranking of the 100 best CEOs in the world who took office between...
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February 26 - News
Monday morning, Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS)’s Chairman Leonard Riggio announced that he will finance a bid to take the company’s retail operations private.
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February 26 - News
RadioShack is eyeing its fourth consecutive quarterly deficit when it reports tomorrow, and the market doesn't know if the strip mall chain will ever turn a profit again.
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February 25 - News
Earnings season is now starting to wind down, with most companies already having reported their quarterly results.
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February 25 - News
It is easy to forget, considering the rapid pace of technology these days, that online retailing is still a relatively recent development.
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February 24 - News
Don't get me wrong. I'm a big fan of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) .
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February 23 - News
On a tear for much of the year, the S&P 500 Index continued its climb today, adding 13.2 points, or 0.9%, to end at 1,515.6.
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February 22 - News
Fourth-quarter revenue of eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) climbed 18% year-over-year to $3.99 billion, helped by record holiday sales.
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February 22 - News
Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL)'s management and business have established the company as one of the top marketers in the world. Their popularity is unmatched in today's market.
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February 22 - News
IMAX's fourth-quarter revenue rose 17% to $77.8 million, fueled by a 56% spike in gross box office revenue for films screening at its theaters.
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February 22 - News
Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY)'s been sneaking its way back into the pack of market darlings.
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February 21 - News
As Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) fights for market share in light of Samsung's success, the Street is wondering whether or not Apple will make compromises for the sake of revenue.
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February 21 - News
Due to high associated costs, it doesn't make sense for the majority of individual retailers to develop a scalable same-day delivery network.
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February 21 - News
Better late than never. At least, that's what Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)'s probably thinking if the rumors about a move into retail are true.
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February 21 - News
In early February, Dell Inc.
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February 21 - News
Apple-centric blog 9to5Mac reports that Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) will open retail stores to compete with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL).
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February 20 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average struggled to stay above water most of the day on Friday, but it gave up the ghost when it came out that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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February 20 - News
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on.
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February 19 - News
The big-box store chain is a common victim of so-called "showrooming," where consumers stop by their local retail store to see what a particular gadget can do -- and then order...
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February 19 - News
The inclusion of speculation within your portfolio is one of the necessities of a diversified portfolio in a new age market.
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February 19 - News
Already we've seen Texas join California and Pennsylvania on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)'s growing list of states where it collects sales taxes.
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February 19 - News
Well folks, we can't go up every day! The broad-based S&P 500 took it on the chin today, weighed down by a weak industrial production report, and purportedly weak retail sales...
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February 18 - News
At a time where overall U.S. consumer spending has crept along at an average annual growth rate of under 2%, e-commerce has been growing by leaps and bounds.
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February 17 - News
If you follow Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), you know this was a big weekend for CEO Steve Ballmer and team.
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February 13 - News
No, this isn't a cattle auction, antique auction, or even a estate auction, but there are investments that need to be sold and bought.
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February 13 - News
Back in 2010, a group of private equity firms offered to take Seagate Technology PLC (NASDAQ:STX) private, but the company's management thought the price was too low.
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February 11 - News
News surrounding the success, or lack thereof, of IT retail stores really ramped up during the recent holiday season.
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February 11 - News
The research firm Canalys released a report this week on fourth-quarter 2012 tablet shipments, and so far things don't look too good for Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s ...
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February 11 - News
Investors have been a little trigger-happy lately, hitting the sell button on any hint of changing trends at their companies. While your broker certainly enjoys the business...
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February 4 - News
Today, there are a few companies making me rethink everything I thought I knew about business.
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February 4 - News
Years from now, when fiscal forensics experts begin analyzing the chalked outline of Best Buy Co., Inc.
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February 4 - News
February may be the shortest month of the year, but that doesn't mean that there won't be a lot of things for investors to watch.
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February 2 - News
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has not grown in percentages, but in multiples in the last few years.
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February 1 - News
In July, Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) founder Richard Schulze floated a proposal to take the struggling Minneapolis-based company private.
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January 22 - News
It was one of the top-performing sectors in 2012, with many companies from the group hitting new 52-week highs.
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December 27 - Stock Analysis
This week celebrates two big events: Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
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November 19 - Stock Analysis
There is a perception that Black Friday can provide insight into the retailer sales for the entire holiday season.
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November 19 - Stock Analysis
The day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, has become the opening day of the holiday shopping season.
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November 19 - Stock Analysis
It's only mid-October, and though the holidays still are over two months away, it's not too early to begin thinking about the holiday shopping season.
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October 22 - Stock Analysis
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has had a lot of success turning the retail universe on its head with offering goods and services online at very affordable prices.
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October 12 - News