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GameStop, Salesforce, Netflix, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday for Memorial Day. A handful of major companies report later this week, with the economic-data highlight being jobs Friday. HP and...
Nvidia, Macy’s, Zoom, Costco, Snowflake, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season winds down this week, but with more than a dozen S&P 500 companies left to report. Economists will be watching the latest Federal Reserve meeting...
Nvidia, Macy’s, Zoom, Costco, Snowflake, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season winds down this week, but with more than a dozen S&P 500 companies left to report. Economists will be watching the latest Federal Reserve meeting...
After Big Pullback, It’s Time to Shop for Walmart Stock
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Dollar General and Dollar Tree Earnings Are the Next Big Test for Retailers
Text size Dollar General and Dollar Tree report earnings next Thursday. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Dollar General and Dollar Tree report earnings next week, but the stocks got crushed well in advanc...
Amazon Stock Plunges in Wake of Target, Walmart Debacles. This Is Why.
Text size Things may be worsening at a rapid pace for Amazon. Cindy Ord/Getty Images Amazon . com shareholders just got another reality check from Walmart and Target . The surprising inability of two ...
Walmart Anticipates a Store Manager Shortage Despite $200,000-a-Year Pay
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Walmart Can’t Find Enough Store Managers, Even at $200,000 a Year
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JCPenney owners offer $8.6 billion to acquire rival Kohl’s
The owners of JCPenney have made an offer to acquire archrival Kohl’s in a deal that could value the department-store chain at upwards of $8.6 billion, The Post has learned. Under the proposal, shoppi...
PayPal Stock Is Falling. It’s Not Because Its CFO Is Leaving for Walmart.
Text size PayPal’s has a new interim CFO. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Walmart said late Tuesday that it had named John Rainey as its chief financial officer. Rainey currently holds the same pos...
Costco Stock Is Challenging Amazon as the Most Richly Valued Retailer
Text size Costco Wholesale continues to grow its membership, to 61.7 million members in the latest fiscal year. Mario Tama/Getty Images Costco Wholesale is challenging Amazon . com as the most richly ...
Walmart Is Removing Cigarettes in Some Stores. Philip Morris and Altria Stock Fall.
Text size Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Shares of cigarette makers fell Monday as Walmart plans to end cigarette sales in some U.S. stores, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with t...
Dollar General, Williams-Sonoma, and 3 More Stocks Whose Dividends Are Going Up
Text size Dollar General raised its quarterly dividend by 31%. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Dollar General , Williams-Sonoma , and Equity Residential were among the U.S. companies that said this week ...
Costco stock falls as retailer’s sales pace slows
Costco Wholesale Corp. late Thursday reported quarterly results and sales that topped Wall Street expectations, but the stock headed lower as same-store sales growth slowed. Costco COST, +0.96% said i...
Zoom, Salesforce, Target, Costco, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
U.S. stock and bond markets will have plenty of action on the last day of February with earnings from HP Inc., Lucid Group, and stay-at-home play Zoom Video Communications expected on Monday. Earnings...
Coke, Walmart, and 8 More Companies That Boosted Their Stock Dividends
Text size Things go better with Coke, as the company’s long-ago jingle proclaimed. Things are also going better for the beverage company’s stockholders, thanks to the news that its dividend will be in...
If you thought Walmart and Target had disappointing results, these retailers did so much worse
Retail stocks fell hard this week as bellwether companies disappointed investors with sagging profits. And now, a review of retailers sheds light on companies that put up worse numbers than those repo...