Sears Holdings

Benzinga has featured a look at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls featured giants in the coffee and electric vehicle arenas. Bearish calls included an old-school conglomerate and a specialty retailer. With the attention of many investors, traders and...

Sears Holdings Corp (NASDAQ: SHLD) announced after Thursday's market close a new plan with the objective of returning to profitability. Sears Holdings said that it will close 68 Kmart stores and 10 Sears stores throughout the summer. The company stated that the store closures should generate a...

A sprinkling of off-season earnings reports are on the schedule for this week. While there are no real market movers among them, some could move their own needles considerably if they offer up positive or negative surprises. Among the most prominent quarterly reports this week, Wall Street analysts...

On March 24, Deutsche Bank published a quarterly update of the retail sector, including a watch-list of retail tenants viewed as posing higher risks for bankruptcy and store closures for REIT landlords. Spoiler Alert: Top Malls - No Worries One key investor takeaway from the report, was that...

U.S. stocks started the week on a positive note as all three major indices ended the day in positive territory. Dow component IBM reported a disappointing third quarter along with a cautious outlook weighing down the entire Dow index. The Nasdaq benefited from high expectations over Apple's...

U.S. stocks reversed early morning declines and closed the day little changed ahead of Friday's job reports data, which will be released at 8:30 A.M. The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week by 8,000 according to data released today. Not...

U.S. stocks rose as the S&P 500 toppled to a new all-time high of 1,994.76 while the Dow rose above the 17,000 mark following positive economic reports. Speaking from Jackson Hole, San Francisco's Federal Reserve President John Williams stated that raising the benchmark interest rate...

Among the struggling U.S.-based retailers, Avon Products (NYSE: AVP), Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) saw significant upswings in short interest between the May 15 and May 30 settlement dates. The number of shares sold short in Best Buy and J.C. Penney swelled more...

U.S. stocks were higher on Friday, marking the third consecutive week of gains. Investors cheered May's job report which showed a slow and steady improvement in the labor market. Continuing the trend set in recent trading sessions, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 index...

U.S. stocks picked up right where they left off following Wednesday's rally. Investors were given a mixed bag of economic data covering U.S. manufacturing, initial purchasing managers' index in China, existing home sales, Fed activity among others. Investors are likely focusing more on...

U.S. stocks declined a day after the S&P 500 and Dow indices traded at record-high levels. Investors and traders were likely paying attention to the ten-year Treasury yield which hit 2.5258, the lowest level since late October. The bull market has paused, temporarily at least, until...