New car prices rose again, everyone’s paying over sticker; when will the squeeze start to ease?

The average new car sold for $47,148 in May. That’s not quite the record high prices hit last December. But it’s close — May saw the second-highest prices on record. The average sale price increased b...

Earnings Are Under Threat, Another Blow to Sagging Stock Market

Stocks have tumbled this year in the face of rising interest rates. But with inflation showing little sign of cooling, many investors fear corporate earnings could be the market’s next support to fall...

Costco, Home Depot, and 3 Other Retail Stocks to Scoop Up Now—and 1 to Avoid

Home Depot is one of the retail stocks that are worth buying after the sector’s latest selloff. Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images Text size Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike. The same co...

Under Armour Stock Has Tanked. Director David Gibbs Scooped Up Shares.

Text size Under Armour stock plunged in early May after the company reported a first-quarter loss. Brandon Bell/Getty Images/Getty Images Under Armour stock has tumbled in 2022, but director David W. ...

Costco’s Cheap Gas Prices Are a Big Hit

Costco Wholesale is doing a booming business in gasoline by offering its members material savings that one Wall Street analyst has put at 37 cents a gallon. This comes at a time when prices have soare...

‘I respect every profession equally, but I feel like so many people look down on me for being a waitress’: Americans are tipping less. Should we step up to the plate?

I read your article about tipping. I’ve been serving and bartending for almost 16 years now, since I was 18. Waiting tables is so hard on your body, and a lot of people don’t appreciate all of the wor...

3 Beaten Down Stocks to Buy Now

People treat stocks differently than they do any other kind of purchase. Nobody walks into a Best Buy and sees the 65-inch television they always wanted on sale at 50% off and questions the intrinsic ...

These 19 large-cap stocks have now dropped at least 60% from their 52-week highs

The latest inflation figures on June 10 were worse than expected and the effect on stock prices was brutal. A list of stocks in the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100 Index that have fallen at least 60% f...

Why the Stock Markets Are Falling So Hard

Text size Wall Street Bull Dreamstime This past week was another brutal one for the markets. Investors had plenty to worry about from the Fed to inflation and retail sales. The Dow Jones Industrial Av...

Target, Caterpillar, and 3 More Stocks Getting Higher Dividends

Text size Target is raising its quarterly dividend by 20%. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Target and Caterpillar were among the U.S. companies that declared dividend increases this week. Target (ticker:...

How Rest And Wellness Brands Like Lunya And Ritual Are Redefining The Store Experience

Ritual’s new store on Abbot Kinney in Venice featuring the traceability map wall. Ritual In a 2021 report, McKinsey estimated global wellness to be a $1.5 trillion market, with a growth rate of ...

Consumers Love Sustainability, but Balk at Paying for It

Consumers Love Sustainability, but Balk at Paying for It getty One of the hot topics among retail execs these days is how frustrating it is to effectively leverage intense consumer interest in sustain...

In a shaky economy, cash is king — and these S&P 500 companies have it, says Barclays

Show investors the money, but make it cold hard cash. That’s the message from U.S. equity strategists at Barclays, who highlighted more than a dozen S&P 500 SPX, -2.48% companies with the best cas...

Yellen and Biden Wonder Why People Are Down on the Economy. Here’s the Reason.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said yesterday that “it’s amazing how pessimistic” Americans are about the economy, “given that we have the strongest labor market we’ve had in the entire postwar perio...

Carvana, ‘The Amazon of Car Dealers’, Fights its Biggest Battle

The way Ernie Garcia III sees it, the problem is not existential. Garcia, founder and CEO of Carvana  (CVNA) – Get Carvana Co. Class A Report, the online used car retailer, gave a run down of hi...

5 Retail Stocks Worth a Look, and 1 to Avoid

Home Depot is one of the retail stocks that are worth buying after the sector’s latest selloff. Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images Text size Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike. The same co...

Alibaba shares decline in Hong Kong, extending Wall Street’s selloff

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. fell in Hong Kong morning trading, extending a selloff overnight on Wall Street after its fintech arm Ant Group Co. denied reports about a revival of its initial public offe...

Tech Stocks Tumble; Which Ones are Buying Opportunities?

Technology stocks have stumbled in 2022, after years of strength, amid raging inflation and soaring interest rates. The S&P 500 information and technology sector lost 20% year to date through June...

Oil prices could go ‘parabolic,’ putting global economy in ‘critical situation,’ says Trafigura chief

“‘We have got a critical situation. I really think we have a problem for the next six months. … [O]nce it gets to these parabolic states, markets can move and they can spike quite a lot.’” — Jeremy We...

Walmart’s Sam’s Club Solves a Huge Problem (Costco Hasn’t)

The supply chain mess caused by the covid pandemic forced retailers to get much smarter about how they get items into their stores.  That’s actually something Walmart’s (WMT) – Get W...

A Guide for Retail Investors: How to Find Blue Chip NFTs?

Place/Date: – June 8th, 2022 at 4:10 pm UTC · 5 min read Source: MOJOR Nowadays, NFTs have become the most attractive emerging investment product. Despite the recent crypto market downturn, inve...

‘retail sector is a little harder to invest in’

Shares of Target Corp (NYSE: TGT) are up nearly 1.0% on Thursday after the retail behemoth announced a significant increase in its quarterly dividend. Target now has implied dividend yield of 2.78% Ta...

Novavax’s New Covid-19 Vaccine Might Be Late to the Party

It’s one thing to arrive fashionably late to a party, it’s another thing to waltz in when the last guests are stumbling out the door. For Novavax , which on Tuesday cleared a key step toward U.S. Food...

Kohl’s Suitor Wants to Buy the Chain by Selling Kohl’s Properties

Kohl’s beat back activists and is in talks to be sold for around $8 billion. But its suitor could bring a new set of challenges for the department-store chain. Franchise Group which owns the Vitamin S...

Alibaba Stock Headed for Highest Close Since February. Thank Videogames.

Text size Alibaba and other Chinese tech stocks have been beaten down amid regulatory pressures. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Alibaba and other Chinese tech stocks roared higher on Wednesday as a w...

Apple is offering ‘buy now, pay later.’ 4 reasons to think twice before signing up

After months of speculation, Apple AAPL, -0.45% finally unveiled its buy now, pay later offering this week, wading into an industry that’s experienced explosive growth. But consumers should be wary of...

Yellen Says Inflation Is Here to Stay While Target Is Cutting Prices. They’re Not at Odds.

At the same time, Target said on Tuesday it will have to cut prices to shift inventory, further hurting profitability this year. That seems like a contradiction. But it makes sense if we accept that f...

Costco discussing membership rate hikes after renewals hit 90%

Costco Wholesale Corp. is talking over membership fee hikes after reporting an all-time renewal rate high of 90%. The last time Costco raised its membership fee was in June 2017. Historically, fees ri...

Target’s latest warning is ‘a bad development for the retail industry,’ analyst explains

Target’s latest warning on Tuesday is apt to send shivers down the backs of its retail competitors in home and apparel. “While clearly a negative for Target, this is a bad development for ...

Short sellers raise bets against GameStop and AMC to highest level in a year as Wall Street sees more pain ahead

Investors are once again working up the fortitude to bet against GameStop and AMC roughly 18 months after last January’s infamous “meme stock” short squeeze sent GameStop shares surging more than 1,00...

Target Inventory Warning Portends Retail Bloodbath

Target ’s inventory problem is turning out even worse than it expected just a short time ago. Its latest warning could portend a promotional bloodbath among retailers this summer. The retailer on Tues...

Costco Raises Prices While Target Lowers Them

The pandemic has disrupted a variety of retail chains. Covid has created supply-chain problems, where ordered items take longer to arrive, but that’s not the only problem facing retailers, inclu...