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Best Buy and Atrium Health set in-home hospital care deal
Best Buy is best known for installing TVs and home theater systems. Now, its Geek Squad is helping to set up virtual hospital rooms. The consumer electronics retailer said Tuesday it has struck a thre...
CRM, BBY, M and more
A worker enters the SalesForce Tower in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, March 14, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines before the bel...
Best Buy (BBY) earnings Q4 2023
Customers shop at a Best Buy store on August 24, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Best Buy on Thursday reported holiday-quarter earnings and revenue that topped Wall Street’...
Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: BBY, SGEN, UNP
Customers shop at a Best Buy store on August 24, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Union Pacific — Shares rose 9.5% after ...
TV prices sink ahead of the Super Bowl — here are the best deals
Nearly 200 million people will watch the Philadelphia Eagles face off against the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl on Feb. 12, which is a good reason to buy a brand-new television. While you may n...
Why Amazon China fell behind Alibaba, JD.com and Taobao
China’s e-commerce market was valued at $2 trillion in 2022, according to GlobalData, and the country also has a rapidly growing middle class, making it an attractive market for American compani...
Walmart raises minimum wage as retail labor market remains tight
An employee arranges beauty product gift boxes displayed for sale at a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. location in Los Angeles, California. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Walmart said Tuesday it is...
World Wrestling Entertainment, Bed Bath & Beyond, Tesla, Costco
Chief Brand Officer and TV Personality of WWE, Stephanie McMahon delivers her keynote address at the opening of Sports Matters in conjunction with All That Matters 2016 in Singapore on September 14, 2...
Target under pressure, hopes value-hungry shoppers come to the rescue
Target is stressing value this holiday season, as consumers feel pinched by inflation. At its store in New Jersey, signs that advertise low-priced items are more prominent than in previous years. Meli...
SoFi Technologies, Charter Communications, Delta and more
Delta Airlines Embraer ERJ 170-200 flying above Los Angeles International Airport on Oct. 2, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. AaronP/Bauer-Griffin | Gc Images | Getty Images Check out the companies ma...
Delta, Tesla, Moderna and others
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Delta Air Lines (DAL) – Delta jumped 3.8% in the premarket after the airline raised its current quarter forecast and issued an upbeat 2023 out...
Dollar General chases suburban shoppers with Popshelf
HENDERSONVILLE, Tennessee — Dollar General‘s next big strategy for growth is tucked in a strip mall in suburban Nashville, and it is coming to other cities soon. It’s a new store called Po...
Horizon Therapeutics, Coupa Software, Rivian and more
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Horizon Therapeutics (HZNP) – The drugmaker’s shares surged 14.7% in the premarket after it agreed to be bought by Amgen (AMGN) for $1...
Rent the Runway (RENT) Q3 earnings 2022
Jennifer Hyman, Rent the Runway Scott Mlyn | CNBC As some shoppers think twice about purchases, Rent the Runway is getting a bump. The fashion rental and subscription company on Wednesday reported st...
Shopper turnout hit record over Black Friday weekend, trade group says
A record number of holiday shoppers – 196.7 million – flocked back to stores and hunted for deals from Thanksgiving Day to Cyber Monday, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation, which ...
Big discounts equals high pressure for retailers
Major retailers are under intense pressure to deliver on Black Friday after several of them reported a slowdown in sales heading into the do-or-die holiday shopping season. Macy’s, Target, Kohl&...
Dow ends nearly 400 points higher as investors await Fed minutes
U.S. stocks ended higher Tuesday as traders gauged the impact of fresh COVID-19 restrictions in China and awaited Wednesday’s minutes from the most recent Federal Reserve meeting. How are stocks are t...
Best Buy (BBY) earnings Q3 2023
A customer watches as Best Buy employees load his new television into his car during the state’s sales tax free weekend, beginning on Saturday. Erin Clark | Boston Globe | Getty Images Best Buy ...
Abercrombie & Fitch, Disney, Best Buy, Zoom and more
A pedestrian stands outside of the Abercrombie & Fitch store on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Craig Warga | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Ab...
Best Buy, Dick’s, Abercrombie & Fitch and others
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Best Buy (BBY) – Best Buy rallied 7% in the premarket after its third-quarter results beat analyst estimates. The electronics retailer also re...
The PC boom has gone bust, and we are about to see the results ahead of Black Friday
The pandemic-fueled personal-computer boom has ended, so how will that affect demand and pricing for PCs and the retailers that sell them this holiday season? A sense of the fallout will be provided i...
Retailers’ biggest holiday wish is to get rid of all that excess inventory
A clearance sale sign is seen at the Gap retail store on September 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Allison Dinner | Getty Images As some of the nation’s largest retailers report quarterly e...
Why hearing aids are so expensive
An estimated 48 million Americans have some form of hearing difficulty, according to the Hearing Loss Association of America. But only about 20% of people who would benefit from a hearing aid use one....
Inflation to dampen holiday spending, retail trade group forecasts
Shoppers ascend and descend an escalator at the Willow Grove Park Mall in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, November 14, 2020. Mark Makela | Reuters Getting shoppers to spend this holiday season won’t...
Inflation-weary shoppers to see more holiday sales, discounts in 2022
People walk stores offering sales at a shopping mall in Santa Anita, California on December 20, 2021. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Grocery and energy prices have spiked, and credit card inte...
Online holiday spending expected to be weak after months of early discounting
A contractor working for Amazon.com cleans a delivery truck in Richmond, California, on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images After months of sales and markdowns from re...
Bed Bath & Beyond merchandise problems could cripple turnaround plan
A person exits a Bed Bath & Beyond store in New York City, June 29, 2022. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Bed Bath & Beyond is betting on a drastic change in strategy and well-recognized brands to revi...
Walmart unveils virtual fitting room to push shoppers to buy more clothes
Walmart is rolling out its latest version of virtual try-on, which allows shoppers to upload an image of themselves and see how items would look. Walmart As some shoppers reduce their spending on clot...
Where Walmart, Amazon, Target are spending billions in slowing economy
A Walmart employee loads up a robotic warehouse tool with an empty cart to be filled with a customer’s online order at a Walmart micro-fulfillment center in Salem, Mass. on Jan. 8, 2020. Boston ...
Big Lots, Best Buy, Nikola and Lucid
A customer exits a Big Lots store in Clifton, New Jersey. Emile Wamsteker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Big Lots – Shares jumped 7.8% after the...
Stock market’s wild gyrations put earnings in focus as inflation crushes Fed ‘pivot’ hopes
Unrelenting inflation has dashed hopes for a quick pivot away from aggressive interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, which in turn is undermining the U.S. corporate earnings outlook for 2023 and ...