Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Trading Hours for Christmas.

This holiday season hasn’t exactly been filled with cheer for investors: Companies have been battling inflation and market volatility—and a recession seems to be looming ahead. On Thursday, the market...

Retailers Are Cutting Jobs Instead of Hiring Help Ahead of the Holidays

The holiday season is usually a reason for stores to staff up to handle the surge of shoppers. But Friday’s jobs report showed a concerning trend: Retailers are shedding workers. According to the Bure...

Why investors may want to add retail ETFs to their cart

‘Tis the season for shopping — and maybe for some investors: ETFs. Despite consumer headwinds tied to the economic slowdown, Amplify ETFs’ Brian Giere sees opportunities in retail. “...

Gas Prices May Fall Further, Latest Data Show

Drivers are likely to get a gift heading into the holidays—quickly falling gasoline prices. The latest stats released on Wednesday by the Energy Information Administration show that gasoline is buildi...

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 ...

Retail Stocks Got an Earnings Boost. Why There’s No Comfort in That.

Text size Many retailers are still struggling with the high inventories, with profits dragged down by pricier supply-chain and transport costs. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Investors breathed a sigh of ...

Walmart Wreaked Havoc on Retail. Grab These Unfairly Punished Stocks Now.

Text size Shoppers are spending more on necessities and less on frivolous items. Getty Images You know retail is in trouble when even Walmart can’t manage its way through inflation pressures. Still, s...

Kohl’s Stock Tumbled. The Buyout Offer Might Be Lowered.

Text size A Kohl’s department store. Photograph by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Kohl’s shares took a late-day nosedive on reports that suitor Franchise Group may lower its bid for the department store...

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...

American Eagle pitches internal supply chain platform to retail rivals

Shekar Natarajan is chief supply chain officer of American Eagle Outfitters. He joined the retailer in 2018. Source: Julie Stapen Photography American Eagle wants to be more like Amazon. Not to get in...

Walmart (WMT) earnings Q4 2022

A worker delivers groceries to a customer’s vehicle outside a Walmart Inc. store in Amsterdam, New York, on Friday, May 15, 2020. Angus Mordant | Bloomberg via Getty Images Walmart topped quarte...

Walmart’s earnings may signal if shoppers getting spooked by inflation

When Walmart reports quarterly earnings Thursday, investors will scour sales numbers and executives’ comments for clues about whether rising prices are making shoppers skittish. The retail giant...

Starboard-Backed Acacia Research Makes $9 Billion Bid for Kohl’s. What to Know.

Text size Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Activist hedge fund Starboard Value is behind a group that made a $9 billion bid for department-store operator Kohl’s , according to a report. The bidding...

Stitch Fix Stock Has Cratered. One Investor’s $100 Million Bet on a Comeback.

Text size Courtesy of Stitch Fix Stitch Fix stock has tumbled in 2021, but one of the largest investors in the online apparel retailer has been racking up big stock buys. Stitch Fix (ticker: SFIX) sto...