Williams-Sonoma

U.S. stocks rose to start off the holiday-filled shortened trading week on a positive note as investors found plenty of reason to be optimistic on retail sales which jumped the most since 2012. Investors were also encouraged by Citigroup's better than expected earnings which eased investor...

U.S. stocks ended the week on a sour note as investors continue to sell many momentum names. Not helping the bull case was the much anticipated Jobs report number which failed to "wow" the market, coming in relatively in-line with expectations. The Dow suffered a triple digit point loss and...

Kristin Bentz is the Executive Director of PMG Venture Group, a private equity firm with expertise in professional sports, media and luxury. Bentz is also President of Talented Blonde LLC, an advisory firm focusing on the consumer and retail industry and the author of the upcoming book It's...

As the earnings season winds down, some the most anticipated quarterly reports this week. Most notably, reports will come from alternative energy companies FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ: FCEL) and Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG), retailers American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO) and Dollar General (NYSE: DG),...

Williams-Sonoma (NYSE: WSM) is up more than three percent in after hours trading after announcing the firm's third quarter results. The retailer reported a Q3 EPS of $0.58 versus the Street estimate of $0.55. Earnings per share were up 18 percent from the year-ago period. Revenue arrived at $1....

The focus is on retail as the as the crucial holiday shopping season is set to get underway. Last week, Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) offered weak third-quarter results, while Macy's (NYSE: M) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) turned in earnings beats. Plenty more retailers are on deck this...

There are no ads on Instagram. The app doesn’t cost anything. In other words, it does not create revenue for its owner, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB). If Instagram director of business operations, Emily White, is to be believed, all that will change within the next year, according to The Wall Street...

Quarterly reports from Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) and Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB) will highlight an otherwise pretty quiet week on the earnings front as the quarter winds down. Here is a quick look at expectations from those two reports, as well as those from Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), Brown-...

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,...

Here is a quick look at what analysts expect to see from FedEx (NYSE: FDX), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), Nike (NYSE: NKE) and some of the other most prominent quarterly reports scheduled for this week. FedEx Third-quarter fiscal 2013 earnings from this ostensible economic bellwether are expected to...

Last week, big-box retailers Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Home Depot (NYSE: HD) said their earnings and sales rose in the most recent quarter, and they both boosted their full-year earnings per share (EPS) guidance. More earnings reports are due from retailers this week, highlighted by second-quarter...