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Among troubled retailers, Avon Products (NYSE: AVP), Pacific Sunwear (NASDAQ: PSUN) and Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD) saw significant upswings in the number of their shares sold short during the first weeks of September. Below is a quick look at how these three have fared and what analysts expect from them...

Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF), which faced an uproar this spring arising from controversial comments the CEO made about plus-sized women, is scheduled to report its second-quarter fiscal 2013 results Thursday, August 22, before the markets open. Investors will be looking for the company to...

Overall, the short interest moves in troubled retail companies were mixed again during the first weeks of July. Pacific Sunwear (NASDAQ: PSUN), Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) and SUPERVALU (NYSE: SVU) saw significant percentage swings in the number of their shares sold short. Short sellers also...

Analysts at Jefferies are betting that, as the U.S. economy recovers, consumer discretionary spending will rise. They have recommended that investors buy Deckers Outdoor (NASDAQ: DECK), Fossil (NASDAQ: FOSL), Michael Kors Holdings (NYSE: KORS) and Tumi Holdings (NYSE: TUMI). Below we take a...

The start of the retail earnings season last week was a mixed bag. Quarterly results from Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) ranged from so-so to disappointing, while J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) posted a larger-than-expected net loss. Macy's (NYSE: M) was the standout,...

The earnings stage remains fairly quiet this week, though a scattering of retailers are scheduled to share their most recent results. The most prominent of those are S&P 500 components Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) and Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ: URBN). Analysts on average expect year-over-year...

Hot Topic (NASDAQ: HOTT) shares rose to a six-year high, Thursday, before closing at $13.87, up 29 percent. This on news from Reuters that private equity firm Sycamore Partners plans to take the teen apparel retailer private in a $600 million deal. Sycamore, founded by former retail specialist...

Now that Congress and the White House have failed to reach a deal to avoid the federal budget sequester, and with the jobs report coming out on Friday, the attention this week is likely to be elsewhere, rather than on earnings, which have slowed to dribble. A few lingering retail earnings reports...

Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF), which has been interested in opening a store in the former offices of The Beatles' Apple Records in London, is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2012 results Friday, February 22, before the markets open. Investors will be looking for...

While the holiday season is in full swing now, the earnings season is winding down. Perhaps the most prominent quarterly reports on this week's schedule those from Kroger, the country's largest grocery store chain, and Tiffany, the iconic purveyor of luxury goods. The consensus forecasts of...