Walgreen Company (NYSE:WAG) shares soared Tuesday as the company announced higher-than-expected quarterly profits and a new partnership with pharmaceutical distributor AmerisourceBergen...
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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
When most people see products labeled as “Made in the U.S.A.,” they tend to think of factories located within our borders, with workers earning at least minimum wage producing...
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March 24 - News
Stocks are back on the upswing following yesterday's dip, and investors have to be happy with the gains the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI) is hauling...
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March 22 - News
Stores across the country are ditching the old-fashioned, clunky machines and having salespeople -- and even shoppers themselves -- ring up sales on smartphones and tablet computers...
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March 22 - News
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) is the 800 pound gorilla of the retail industry.
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March 22 - News
Wholesale retail clubs PriceSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ:PSMT), Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST), and Sam’s Club parent Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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March 22 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up as QE3 continues and we wait to see whether Cyprus' parliament takes action to secure a bailout from the European Central Bank.
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March 22 - News
Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST) continued to report excellent growth in the second quarter of fiscal 2013.
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March 22 - News
“I think I’ve been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I’ve underestimated it.
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March 22 - News
Warehouse retailer Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST) reported its second-quarter earnings with growth in both top line and bottom line.
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March 22 - News
To say that America suffers from a trust deficit these days is an understatement. Many of the largest American institutions don't seem to be on the side of regular citizens.
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March 22 - News
Europe's horse meat problem got more coverage in China than China's fake mutton problem got in China, according to Adam Minter, Bloomberg's Shanghai-based correspondent.
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March 21 - News
Tesco Corporation (USA) (NASDAQ:TESO), the UK retailer, is a core holding of Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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March 21 - Hedge Funds
When the first Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) store opened its doors on July 2, 1962, nobody thought it would become the largest retail chain in the world, but it did.
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March 21 - News
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), the well-known online retailer, has befuddled value investors for a while.
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March 19 - News
Some investors believe that you should add share repurchases to dividends to get the “yield” a company is returning to its shareholders.
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March 19 - News
In spite of various problems, such as weak demand and an uncertain environment, there were some surprises last quarter. There were some companies that did exceptionally well.
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March 19 - News
I've talked before about the McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD) and the company's plan to keep customers coming back for more with limited-time offerings like the McRib and Spicy...
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March 19 - News
When a company says they are looking at a “strategic committee to evaluate the sale of the retail business,” you know things aren't going well. Barnes & Noble, Inc.
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March 19 - News
Good news investors, the American consumer is back, or at least in a better condition than many had anticipated.
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March 19 - News
There is no doubt that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) is one of the the world's juggernaut companies, with more than 10,00 stores in 25 countries and $469 billion in sales.
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March 19 - News
Dividend investing is one of the most popular investing strategies, and for good reasons: academic studies have proven that dividend stocks tend to outperform the markets in the...
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March 18 - Dividend Stocks
The company had historically been a grocery chain and a wholesaler to independent grocers.
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March 18 - News
There have been a lot of mixed messages coming from the mass market US consumer recently.
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March 18 - News
At the end of February, I featured a retail store chain Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.
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March 18 - News
The International Women’s Day marked this March 8 led me to think what stocks would women be more inclined to invest in these days.
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March 18 - News
In the video below, Ken Stern, former CEO of National Public Radio, discusses the current state of the charitable sector, and gives his take on the reasons that companies give...
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March 18 - News
Sometimes companies need to admit mistakes and just move on. Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ:SHLD) has been moving in this direction by closing underperforming stores and ...
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March 17 - News
Although the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI)'s 10-day winning streak came to an end on Friday, the index still managed to gain more than 0.81% ...
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March 17 - News
March has been good to blue-chip stocks. Since the beginning of the month, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has closed higher in every trading session.
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March 16 - News
If there is one lesson to take away from Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD)'s recent earnings, it's never underestimate a category leader.
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March 15 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average's 10-day winning streak and nine-day run of record-setting highs may come to an end today.
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March 15 - News
Retail is an extremely difficult business.
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March 15 - News
Pension funds have a hurdle rate, a minimum rate of return. When the U.S.
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March 15 - News
Who is the largest commercial owner of solar? If Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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March 15 - News
The mighty Amazon.com, Inc.
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March 14 - News
After reporting on the "hot water" that Ron Johnson is in over at J.C.
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March 14 - Hedge Funds
In the video below, Ken Stern, former CEO of National Public Radio, discusses his new book, "With Charity For All." In the book, Stern takes on the charitable sector, which he...
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March 14 - News
Once again, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is pushing higher today. As of 12:55 p.m. EDT, the index has added 64 points, or 0.44%.
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March 14 - News
Over the years, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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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
If the market finishes the day where it is now, it will mark the eighth straight session in which blue-chip stocks have climbed.
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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
