The rally since the stock market bottomed out four years ago has been nothing short of ferocious and phenomenal.
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March 25 - News
Credit Suisse on last Wednesday reinstated coverage on big box electronics retailer Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) with an "outperform" rating and a $30 price target (NYSE:TGT...
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March 25 - News
E-commerce. It launched Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and killed Borders.
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March 25 - News
Many income-seeking investors look for stocks that will maximize their current income from dividends.
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March 24 - News
So far this year, the stock market has raced higher without nearly any interruption.
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March 24 - News
Today, let's look at Caxton Associates, founded in 1983 by Bruce Kovner.
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March 22 - Hedge Funds
Discount retailer Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) has made a name for itself by collaborating with some of fashion's most admired designers. However, it hasn't been easy.
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March 22 - News
Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY), Gamestop (NYSE:GME), Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS), Coinstar, Inc.
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March 21 - News
There are certain stores that I really like going to and buying stuff. Just because I will burn my cash at their altar does not mean that I want to own the retailer itself.
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March 20 - News
Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI) stumbled on a sleeper hit in Skylanders last year.
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March 19 - News
If you put a group of economists in a room together about three months ago and asked them which country might cause the next global calamity, I'm nearly 100% certain that not ...
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March 18 - News
People are buying things again, and they have been for a while. After all this time it is finally starting to make sense.
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March 16 - News
Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY), a company which many had written off just a few months ago, has seen its stock rise from a low of $11.20 near the end of 2012 to about $20 in just...
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March 15 - News
One thing's for sure: You'll never discover truly great investments unless you actively look for them.
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March 14 - News
New competitors to the electronics business, both online and at bricks-and-mortar locations, are taking sales that Best Buy could once count on.
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March 14 - News
At The Motley Fool, we poke plenty of fun at Wall Street analysts and their endless cycle of upgrades, downgrades, and "initiating coverage at neutral." Today, we'll show you ...
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March 13 - News
Shares of book retailer Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) traded higher after Barron’s argued that shares of the company might be worth as much as $38.
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March 12 - News
Many established, large firms want to be young and agile. Like Warren Buffett preaches, they desire sustainable, competitive advantages.
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March 12 - News
Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) has seen an interesting rebound in its stock price over the past few months, this despite the retailer's founder, Richard Schulze, announcing that...
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March 12 - News
There has never been a technology that took over our lives like smartphones. After International Business Machines Corp.
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March 11 - News
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the day that the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit bottom during the financial crisis and ensuing market meltdown.
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March 11 - News
Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) rose as much as 6% during Wednesday's trading after analysts at Jefferies upgraded the stock to "Buy," and raised the firm's price target from $...
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March 10 - News
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s Windows 8 may be a better product than all of the other Windows offerings before it, but the company needs consumers to believe that -- ...
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March 8 - News
When “showrooming” became the buzz word that would describe the broken business model for Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY), it felt as if the end was near. Amazon.com, Inc.
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March 8 - News
Marissa Mayer's appointment as Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO)'s new CEO looked promising given her past stint at rival powerhouse Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG).
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March 7 - News
The earnings season for specialty hardline retailers will kick off on Feb. 25.
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March 7 - News
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
Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE:COF) aggressively pursued store credit-card portfolios, and two years ago secured the portfolio of Best Buy Co. Inc.
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February 20 - News