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Lands' End Gets Boost As Mutual Funds Scoop Up Shares
Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 10:19am | 493Read More...As investors, it's nearly impossible to avoid a fascination with initial public offerings. Just on a general business level, it's fun to see which companies are making shares available to the public. Companies that have gone public in the past 15 years or so are often some of the market...
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Sears Pushes Technology, Fails at Sales
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 11:16am | 540Read More...If, as is often said, catalogs were the precursor to online selling, Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), in the form of Sears, Roebuck and Co. set the standard in 1894 with the introduction of its “Book of Bargains.” So why, with all this history behind it, is the company struggling to connect with...
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eBay CEO Emails 40 Million Users in Massive Anti-Legislation Campaign
Monday, April 22, 2013 - 9:46am | 563Read More...If you ask eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) CEO John Donahoe, the proposed Marketplace Fairness Act legislation is anything but. To make his point, he began emailing at least 40 million eBay users Sunday, according to Reuters. Brian Bieron, senior director of global public policy at eBay, said, "It's the...
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Why Some Malls Thrive While Others Lag Behind
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 7:48am | 564Read More...It’s a tale of two types of malls. One, a neighborhood strip mall, typically anchored by a grocery or drugstore. The other, a large regional shopping center, anchored by several large retailers like Sears (NASDAQ: SHLD), J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP), and Macy’s (NYSE: M) with smaller specialty...
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Eddie Lampert Bought More of Sears, But Why?
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - 9:08am | 518Read More...One of those Wall Street proverbs goes like this: Insiders may sell for any number of reasons but they buy for only one. If that’s true, the fact that Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) CEO Eddie Lampert purchased 1.24 million shares using his personal funds is notable. At $44.36 per share, that...
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Five Stocks For Father's Day
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 2:31pm | 233Read More...Everyone knows that dads get a raw deal when it comes to Father's Day, which is swept under the rug when compared to Mother's Day. Moms love to milk their day, but dads are generally more relaxed about theirs. Well, we want to change that. Here are five stocks that will make the old man grin on his...
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Goldman Sachs is Positive About New President of Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. (LL),
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 9:56am | 74Read More...Goldman Sachs reports a positive outlook for Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: LL) upon Robert Lynch being named the new President and COO. Lynch is the former CEO of Orchard Supply Hardware, West Coast home improvement retailer and a member of Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD), and...
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Sears (SHLD) Income Beats Forecasts
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 8:32am | 99Read More...Sears Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq: SHLD) reported that improved sales at its Kmart stores have led to a rise of net income to $430 million, or $3.74 per share, up from $190 million, or $1.55 per share, a year earlier. Adjusted earnings per share were $3.69, up from $2.94 per share a year earlier....
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500,000 Cribs Sold At Walmart (WMT) And Other Retailers Recalled
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 4:29am | 282Read More...The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced a recall of all Generation 2 Worldwide and “ChildESIGNS” drop side cribs because of a "risk of serious injury or death due to strangulation and suffocation hazards presented by the cribs." The CPSC has received reports of three infants...
