Amazon.com agreed to add Grubhub to its suite of Prime services in the U.S., in a deal aimed at expanding the food-ordering company’s reach by tapping Amazon’s membership program. Grubhub’s parent, Ne...
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Fed Minutes Get Released Today. 4 Things to Watch.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell in June 2022. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Text size When the Federal Reserve releases minutes from its June 14-15 meeting today, investors will get a deeper look ...
Stock Market Today: The Dow Edged Higher, While Tech Stocks Rallied
Text size A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The stock market largely gained on Friday, closing out a volatile week of trading. Stability in the bon...
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...
Target raises dividend by 20%, to boost yield to nearly a percentage point above Walmart’s
Shares of Target Corp. TGT, -0.25% rallied 1.1% in premarket trading Thursday, after the discount retailer said it raised its quarterly dividend by 20%, to $1.08 a share from 90 cents a share. The new...
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...
Why Costco Won’t Raise the Price of Its Hot Dogs
Text size Costco’s membership renewal rate for the U.S. and Canada stood at 92.3% last quarter. David Pail Morris/Bloomberg Costco Wholesale takes care of its more than 64 million members. The s...
Costco’s Latest Earnings Show Why the Stock Is a Winner
Text size Costco’s membership renewal rate for the U.S. and Canada stood at 92.3% last quarter. David Pail Morris/Bloomberg Costco Wholesale takes care of its more than 64 million members. The s...
Move Over Target and Walmart, Costco Gets the Gold Star
Club retailer Costco ( COST) released the firm’s fiscal third-quarter earnings on Thursday evening. What a nail-biter! A week earlier, the stock had been smashed in sympathy with the earnings-re...
Can Costco Buck the Retail Train Wreck Trend? We’re About to Find Out
I can’t tell you to follow my lead on this one. It’s too risky. All I can do is tell you how I think and why I think what I think. Then you can decide for yourself. I took it on the chin i...
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...
Consumers Aren’t OK. Why April Retail Sales Are Misleading.
Walmart sales climbed in the first quarter from a year ago, but flat transaction numbers suggest inflation drove the gain. Here, a Walmart in San Leandro, Calif., last year. David Paul Morris/Bloomber...
Next big shoe to drop in financial markets: Inflation that fails to respond to Fed rate hikes
Traders, investors and strategists are adding one more factor to the list of reasons why financial markets may be in for more volatility through at least the next three to four months: the likelihood ...
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 (WMT) earnings Q1 2023
Walmart on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings that missed Wall Street’s expectations by a wide margin, as the nation’s largest retailer felt pressure from rising fuel costs and higher lev...
Walmart to pilot program aimed at putting new college grads on the path to a $210,000 salary
Walmart Inc. WMT, +0.11% said Monday that it is piloting the College2Career program this summer, which will focus on putting new college grads on a career path with the retail giant. College graduates...
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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PayPal Trims 2022 Outlook But Beats Revenue Forecast
PayPal lowered its forecast for adjusted profit for 2022 to a range of $3.81 to $3.93 a share. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size PayPal Holdings said its first quarter was a “solid start” but cut...
Plug Power Is a Strictly Speculative Name: Here’s My Trade Idea
Surely you saw the news this morning. Apparently, retail giant Walmart (WMT) has agreed to purchase “green” hydrogen from Plug Power (PLUG) to power the firm’s forklifts in operation...
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...