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- McDonald's Cuts Prices...In China
- Kirk Shinkle submits: McDonald's MCD shares have managed to buck the rest of the market's woes of late, but as the global economic slowdown continues even fast-food giants are being forced to make some tough and instructive choices. Dow Jones reports: by Kirk Shinkle
- External links 2009-02-06
- Avon Stock Jumps on Pretty Earnings
- Kirk Shinkle submits: Avon Products AVP shares jumped nearly 9 percent in late trading yesterday after the beauty company announced an 80 percent gain in first-quarter earnings. Lower costs helped offset slumping revenue, which fell 9 percent from a year ago. That doesn't mean Avon will buck the terrible retail...
- External links 2009-02-04
- Best Buy Bounces on Circuit City Closure
- Kirk Shinkle submits: Shares of Best Buy BBY are up almost 9 percent this afternoon after its closest rival, Circuit City, said it would liquidate all of its 567 U.S. stores. There's not much good news in the story, especially for Circuit City's more than 30,000 employees, but once some...
- External links 2009-01-16
- McDonald's Stays Ahead in China with Price Cuts
- Kirk Shinkle submits: McDonald's MCD shares have managed to buck the rest of the market's woes of late, but as the global economic slowdown continues even fast-food giants are being forced to make some tough and instructive choices. Dow Jones reports: by Kirk Shinkle
- External links 2009-02-09
- Circuit City: Turn Out the Lights, the Party's Over
- Kirk Shinkle submits: Today's bankruptcy filing at Circuit City CC comes as no real shock. The ailing consumer electronics giant already announced it was closing 155 stores (or about 20 percent of its total) in a last-ditch effort to stay solvent. Creditors agreed to float the chain a $1.1 billion...
- External links 2008-11-10
- Lost Luxuries: Starwood, Pool Take Dips
- Kirk Shinkle submits: The good life takes another hit today, as swimming pools and travel plans face cooling profits because of worried consumers. In today's earnings, two names, hotelier Starwood Hotels HOT and pool supplier Pool Corp. POOL, are cutting their outlooks. Starwood Hotels warned profits will fall in...
- External links 2008-10-24
- Mighty Wal-Mart Takes a Hit
- Kirk Shinkle submits: Even the biggest and best in retail aren't immune from the frightened consumer. Wal-Mart's WMT December sales rose just 1.7 percent in December, below the 2.8 percent consensus and earlier guidance from the company that sales would be in the high end of its 1-3 percent...
- External links 2009-01-08
- Dick's Sporting Goods: Cheap Coupons, Cheap Stock
- Kirk Shinkle submits: Dick's Sporting Goods DKS showed off a sign of the times yesterday. Ahead of what could be the worst holiday sales season in a decade for American retailers, it's offering up coupons for 20 percent off select merchandise on its Web site alongside other deals to entice...
- External links 2008-11-26
- Kohl's: Possible Rebound Candidate
- Kirk Shinkle submits: Before we start, the answer is yes. We are in a recession, consumer spending is falling, and the shares of retailers have been beaten to a pulp in this downturn. So why take a look at any of them? Well, contrarian bets are fun, for one....
- External links 2008-10-22
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- Amazon: Respectable, But Guidance Hurts
- Kirk Shinkle submits: Amazon.com had a respectable quarter, but lower guidance is hurting the company's shares. Industry-leading sales and market-share growth mean it's still the king of online retail, but even that won't help when shoppers simply start to spend less—almost $1 billion less in 2008 for Amazon. For...
- External links 2008-10-24
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