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Retail Industry Outlook - Sept. 2010 - Zacks Analyst Interviews
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 7:11pm | 1882The economic recovery post-downturn still remains fragile and requires a boost from a sustained and significant improvement in jobs creation and income growth. A turnaround in the jobs and income scenario will finally outweigh other drags such as tighter credit. On September 15, 2009, the Federal...
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Retail Industry Outlook - Sept. 2010 - Industry Outlook
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 7:11pm | 1882The economic recovery post-downturn still remains fragile and requires a boost from a sustained and significant improvement in jobs creation and income growth. A turnaround in the jobs and income scenario will finally outweigh other drags such as tighter credit. On September 15, 2009, the Federal...
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Retail Industry Outlook - Sept. 2010 - Industry Outlook
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 4:33pm | 1888The economic recovery post-downturn still remains fragile and requires a boost from a sustained and significant improvement in jobs creation and income growth. A turnaround in the jobs and income scenario will finally outweigh other drags such as tighter credit. On September 15, 2009, the Federal...
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J.C. Penney Gives Retail Update
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 10:40am | 148J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) is introducing exclusive brands by Liz Claiborne (LIZ: NYSE), ALDO, and Sephora as well as improvement in home to help drive traffic in 2H2010 says Citigroup analysts. The store has seen over YoY increase in mall traffic, transactions, and units per transaction in 2Q2010...
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Will Investors Return to BP (NYSE:BP)?
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 9:26am | 1747The hope when setting low expectations, of course, is that the eventual result will be better than everyone feared. We see this with earnings guidance figures, sales numbers, and all measures of financial forecasts. BP is currently seeing a version of this phenomenon take shape. The oil giant now...
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Buying (and more buying) in Chubb (NYSE:CB) options
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 9:11am | 1609Chubb (NYSE: CB) is a U.S.-based insurance company offering both commercial and personal services. News has been sparse on the firm since its July 22 positive earnings surprise. The stock itself, however, has been quietly strolling higher, up more than 16% since early July to hit a new 52-week...
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Piper Jaffray Has Thoughts On Apparel (JCP)
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 8:30am | 133Piper Jaffray has some thoughts on the apparel sector, including J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP). In the research note, Piper Jaffray says, "Our proprietary pricing analysis points to a -0.7% decline during the first three weeks of September, marking the eighth consecutive month of declines. July CPI data...
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Top Domain Names are Owned by Publicly Traded Companies
Monday, September 13, 2010 - 3:50pm | 402Owning a strong domain name can be a valuable asset, due the the fact that a good name can receive a lot of direct 'type-in' Internet traffic, bypassing search engines. Here is a list of leading domain names and the publicly trade stocks that own them them. Asthma.com Glaxosmithkline plc (GSK)Book...
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Nordstrom's Flying Today (JWN)
Monday, September 13, 2010 - 11:51am | 80Shares of luxury department store Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN) just started surging a few minutes ago, as traders might be looking for strong earnings from the company. Shares of Nordstrom are now up $1.10 to $34.37 on almost 900,000 shares this morning. Nordstrom, Inc., a fashion specialty retailer...
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Closing out of a General Mills (GIS) call trade?
Monday, September 13, 2010 - 10:00am | 1323Every trading day, the OptionsHouse Hotlist scans for unusual activity across the options-trading universe. The Hotlist is available for all OptionsHouse customers, including those with virtual trading accounts. Hitting the Hotlist on Friday was cereal giant General Mills (NYSE:GIS). The stock saw...
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Hedging Broad-Market Moves With Ratio Spreads in the Spiders (SPY)
Friday, September 10, 2010 - 11:23am | 2096Most investors have a long bias to their trading. They likely research fundamentals of a company, read analysts’ opinions, check on the technicals, and attempt to find quality companies in which to invest. Unfortunately for these bulls, a weak market will often punish this diligence in stock...
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Volume is the cause, price is the effect
Friday, September 10, 2010 - 11:07am | 2004There has been a lot of chatter recently about trading volume (or lack thereof). Specifically, the popular topic of discussion has been how particularly abysmal volume was during the month of August. While seasonal volume trends are important and can have an effect on prices as well as price...
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Retail Ventures, Inc. Reports Q2 Operating Results
Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 4:21pm | 117Retail Ventures, Inc. (NYSE: RVI) today announced its consolidated financial results for the second quarter ended July 31, 2010. The income from continuing operations for the quarter ended July 31, 2010 was $35.6 million on net sales of $415.1 million, compared to loss from continuing operations of...
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Back-to-School Drives Macy's Sales - Analyst Blog
Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 10:33am | 425Macy's Inc. (M) posted better-than-expected sales results for the four-week period ended August 28, 2010, on the heels of strong back-to-school business, driven by robust performances across Material Girl, Madonna's new apparel line, and American Rag, the private brand. The company's comparable-...
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Bearish Hedges Purchased in Kohl's (KSS)
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 12:49pm | 237Shares of Kohl’s Corp. (NYSE: KSS) are lower on the session by 0.47%, currently trading at $48.83. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past six months, off from recent highs near $59.00. The stock saw a ‘V’ shaped bottom on higher than normal volume August 12th-13th; a break below $47....