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Written By: Shaina Humphries on February 21, 2012 No Comment
Live Blogging: Macy’s Q4 Earnings Conference Call

Macy’s Inc., the nation’s largest department store chain, reported better-than-expected earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter and full-year 2011.

Written By: Nida Tahir on June 2, 2011 No Comment
Is Amazon’s stock overvalued?

Investors’ high growth expectations for Amazon have made it an attractive investment, with its shares having risen 57 percent over the past year. But a diminishing competitive advantage and possible headwinds in the future make Amazon’s profitability highly unpredictable and its stock overvalued.

Written By: Traci McMillan on August 26, 2010 No Comment
Invest in Mexico, Hispanic consumer

Mexico is becoming an increasingly attractive location for foreign companies to do business and on the flipside, Mexican companies are becoming more interested in investment in the states.

Written By: meganmollmann on August 13, 2009 No Comment
Summer Shoppers: Out to Sea?

Image via J.C. Penney

BY MEGAN MOLLMANN – MEDILL REPORTS

On the heels of the Fed’s news that the economy is “leveling out,” July retail sales dropped 0.1 percent from June, said the U.S. Department of Commerce Thursday.

Total retail sales for July were $342.3 billion, an 8.3 percent decline from July of [...]

Written By: meganmollmann on July 23, 2009 No Comment
Back-to-school spending down, parents urge kids to wear old clothes

BY MEGAN MOLLMANN – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

The annual shopping spree synonymous with the start of the school year will be a little less grand this year. Parents worried about their finances in the recession plan to spend less this fall when jaunting off to GapKids, Kohl’s or Walgreens to [...]

Written By: Deb Weinstein on May 28, 2009 No Comment
Target Shareholders Meet: Get Out Your Scorecards

(Deb Weinstein/MEDILL)

BY DEB WEINSTEIN -MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Shareholders and executives of Minneapolis-based Target Corp. (TGT: $39.60 +/-0%), are gathering in Waukesha, Wisc., for the annual shareholders’ meeting today. However, this is no ordinary shareholders’ meeting.

The past few weeks have been a ping-pong game of “Vote for my team” [...]

Written By: Deb Weinstein on May 20, 2009 No Comment
Bullseye? Target fares less poorly than expected

BY DEB WEINSTEIN-MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Target Corp. [[TGT]] announced its first quarter results: Profits fell 13 percent to $522 million for the quarter ended May 2, compared with $602 million for the same period last year.

Looking at Bloomberg.com, Target’s results are the best of a bad [...]

Written By: Deb Weinstein on May 1, 2009 One Comment
The business of being Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart (Smoothdude/FLICKR)

BY DEB WEINSTEIN- MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

A day after Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., [[MSO]] posted a wider loss of $16.8 million for the quarter ended March 31, compared with a $4.2 million loss in the year-earlier period, Martha Stewart, the [...]

Written By: Deb Weinstein on April 15, 2009 No Comment
Consumer spending pullback depresses prices

Consumer prices tumbled in March. (Therese Flanagan/FLICKR)

BY DEB WEINSTEIN- MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Penny-pinching has taken a toll on prices, according to the latest read on the Consumer Price Index by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Reduced demand for gas, natural gas and oil exerted the  most pressure on the index, forcing consumer prices to [...]

Written By: Deb Weinstein on April 14, 2009 No Comment
Pessimists win: March retail sales drop 1.1 percent

Retail sales went south in March. (bookgrl/FLICKR)

BY DEB WEINSTEIN – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

The latest news from the Department of Commerce is a mix of the bad and the good.

The bad: March threw a wrench in what some had hoped was a sign of a consumer upswing — [...]

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