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Investors who are assuming that basketball shoes are the fastest growing footwear category need to take a closer look at the sector, at least according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. According to the Wall Street Journal, reissued or "heritage" shoes outpaced all other shoe categories last...

The NBA draft is set to kick off Thursday, just days after the remarkable 2016 NBA finals. As the battle of the basketball shoe war is in full effect, the upcoming draft class will have athletic apparel giants searching for their next flagship superstar. Nike Inc (NYSE: NKE) has already secured...

Shares of Lululemon Athletica inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) were trading slightly higher early Friday morning, despite a bullish note by analysts at Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer's consumer/specialty retailing analyst Anna Andreeva reiterated an Outperform rating on Lululemon's stock with an unchanged $75 price...

Update from Adidas: Adidas Group does not source from the factory which is affected by the strike. Pou Chen Group’s factory “Yue Yuen” is an adidas Group supplier, but the adidas Group production facility in Dongguan/China, called Y6, is fully operational. Democratic...

With the market already facing bouts of volatility due to worries about the global economy, the U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to tread carefully at its upcoming policy meeting. The U.S. central bank is set to hold its two-day policy meeting on October 28 and 29, where it is largely expected to...

On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first case of Ebola in the U.S. The patient, whose name has not been released, began to develop symptoms on September 24 and was admitted to a Texas hospital’s isolation unit on September 28. The patient...

NBA basketball legend Michael Jordan showed up for Roger Federer's first-round match at the U.S. Open August 26. According to The Wall Street Journal, Jordan wasn’t there simply to cheer on a fellow superstar. Jordan’s appearance was all about marketing and a...

Russia's retaliatory ban on imports of food and beverages would likely have limited impact on companies like McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) and Unilever (NYSE: UN), according to Reuters. Other corporations such as Adidas and BP (NYSE: BP) indicated that a weakened ruble and...

News that NBA MVP Kevin Durant is close to inking a $325 million endorsement deal with Under Armour (NYSE: UA) has had tongues wagging on Wall Street. Securities lawyers debated whether the company would have to disclose the deal to shareholders under the “material events”...

NBA star Kevin Durant’s recent deal to become spokesman for the zero-calorie drink Sparkling Ice raises, once again, the question of just how much value celebrity endorsements bring to a brand. One thing is clear, however. Although the terms of Durant’s deal with Sparkling Ice...

U.S. stocks were little changed the day after investors and traders were reassured by the Federal Reserve that interest rates will not rise in the near-term. The U.S. government reported that fewer Americans filed claims for jobless benefits in the previous week, partly helping the S&P 500...

U.S. stocks finished the day almost unchanged as investors and traders were presented with a mixed bag of data today. A better than expected report on the service sector negated another report that showed that companies added fewer employees to their payrolls than anticipated in January. The...

Not too long ago we did a "Which Would You Rather" about two of the biggest names in the sports apparel business, Nike and Adidas. Since that particular industry is as globally massive as it is, it stands to reason that there are more than just two major players therein. But Nike is...