Tag: holiday sales

[unhappy Christmas shopper]

Sears and Kmart Get Lump of Coal for Christmas

Sears Holdings Corp (SHLD) reported that comparable store sales during the holiday season at its Kmart and Sears...

Make a List of Successful Retailers by Checking the Malls

Investing requires triangulating multiple streams of data to make decisions; that’s why each Christmas season I walk the...

Disappointing Christmas Present

Forty Million Credit Cards Stolen from Target

If you have shopped at Target since Black Friday, your credit card number may have been stolen by...

Long-Term Unemployment Benefits to Expire Under New Budget Deal

1 million people receive their last unemployment check on Dec. 28, and 850,000 people now will receive nothing...

December Consumer Sentiment Exceeds Expectations

The University of Michigan released its preliminary Consumer Sentiment Index for December: 82.5, well above the final November...

Disappointing Christmas Present

Target’s Stocking Gets a Lump of Coal

With the holiday season upon us, retailers typically drink in revenues and watch their share prices soar. While...

Black Friday Is No Blockbuster

Holiday shopping kicked off this past weekend with Americans spending more than $54.7 billion during the Thanksgiving holiday...

[family Christmas shopping]

Retailers Will Benefit from Pre-Thanksgiving Storms

Heavy storms are expected to cover the Eastern third of the United States Tuesday and Wednesday, but retailers...

[Woman in Santa hat with bag of gifts]

Holiday Spending Plans Track Unemployment

Manilla.com, a personal budgeting website, surveyed its users about their holiday spending plans.

Best Buy Warns Holiday Discounts Will Squeeze Margins

Best Buy warned that its healthy Q3 profits (net income $54 million) will not be repeated because of...