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Market lost ground Wednesday and will likely open lower again Thursday. The Dow lost about 89 points to close at 16,040.56. The S&P was down 0.6 percent, or about 12 points to close at 1,828.75, and the NASDAQ fell 0.8 percent to 4,237.95. This morning, U.S. markets are indicated to open...

The earnings season is winding down, but on the docket this week are Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), MGM Resorts (NYSE: MGM), Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) and others. Later in the week, the parade of quarterly reports from big retailers kicks off with...

Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFM), which was a top stock pick on Jim Cramer's Mad Money last week, is scheduled to report its fiscal first-quarter results Wednesday, February 12, after the markets close. Investors will be looking to see if the company managed to keep up its revenue numbers despite...

Ohio-based Kroger (NYSE: KR), which has announced some management changes since the next chief executive officer was named in September, is scheduled to report its third-quarter fiscal 2013 results Thursday, December 5, before the opening bell. Investors will be looking for news on the progress...

Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM), J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) will kick off the new earnings season this week. Analysts are looking for revenue declines from these three, and only Wells Fargo to post year-over-year earnings growth. Since it has dropped out of the Dow Jones...

Overall, the short interest moves in troubled retail companies were mixed again during the initial weeks of August. GameStop (NYSE: GME), J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) and Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) saw significant percentage swings in the number of their shares sold short. The short interest in...

Overall, the short interest moves in troubled retail companies were mixed again during the final weeks of July. J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP), Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD) and SUPERVALU (NYSE: SVU) saw significant percentage swings in the number of their shares sold short. Short sellers shied away from Barnes...

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...

The earnings season ramps up this week, providing plenty of perspective on how the financial and technology sectors fared in the second quarter. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Citigroup (NYSE: C), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Intel (NYSE: INTC), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and many...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is planning to expand AmazonFresh as it fights to gain market share in the grocery business. You know that you can find almost anything on Amazon but some customers can purchase perishable food items and have them delivered to their the door the same or next day. Amazon...

The earnings crunch is in full swing this week. Some of the highlights include anticipated quarterly reports from the likes of Apple, Amazon.com and Ford, which analysts expect to report lower per-share earnings for the most recent quarter than a year ago. On the other hand, year-over year...

The short interest moves in troubled retail companies were mixed during the latter two weeks of March. The number of shares sold short in Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE), GameStop (NYSE: GME), Office Depot (NYSE: ODP) and Pacific Sunwear (NASDAQ: PSUN) increased somewhat between the March 15 and March...

A research report from UBS (NYSE: UBS) released this week included a list of the analyst's “least preferred” stocks. The stocks on the list had an average potential downside of 20 percent. The list also offers candidates for investors to sell or to short. Three struggling retail stocks made the...

The short interest in troubled retail companies was mixed but overall quiet during the first two weeks of March. The number of shares sold short in Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE), Bon-Ton Stores (NASDAQ: BONT), OfficeMax (NYSE: OMX) and RadioShack (NYSE: RSH) increased somewhat between the February...

The results are in. Here are the top 10 shorted stocks for the month of February. Short interest is represented as a percentage of float. If you thought a market that doesn’t want to fall would cause the shorts to pile in as they wait for the pullback, there is no evidence of that just yet....