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Retailers Work to Squeeze in More Sales During Shortened Holiday Season
Friday, November 1, 2013 - 1:06pm | 815Read More...Spurred on by this year's shortened holiday shopping season, a number of major retailers have decided to go straight from Halloween to Christmas, with barely a nod towards Thanksgiving. Reuters reports Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT) began its online sales promotions on Friday, one month earlier...
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Hold Your Carts; Analysts Say Holiday Shopping Will Be Cheapest in December
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 3:30pm | 631Read More...Holiday shopping season is starting to roll around, and retailers already have made their move. Many popular shopping destinations such as Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) and Target (NYSE: TGT) have been printing their "hot toy" lists earlier each year in hopes the merchandise will sell out earlier -- so...
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Cabela's, Home Depot and Other Retail Stocks Worth a Look Now
Monday, November 26, 2012 - 3:39pm | 870Read More...The holiday shopping season seems to have gotten off to a strong start, particularly for Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT), but also for Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) and the Gap (NYSE: GPS). So here are seven retail stocks that might be worth a look. All have double-digit...
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ETFs For Cyber Monday
Monday, November 26, 2012 - 2:25pm | 640Read More...Its relevance in question, one thing that is not debatable about Cyber Monday is rising sales. Shoppers are expected to spend $1.5 billion today as they visit various e-commerce web sites, a 20 percent increase from last year's levels, according to research firm comScore. Cyber Monday is one more...
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What Will Be the Biggest Shopping Day of the Year?
Monday, December 19, 2011 - 9:41am | 1299Read More...Cyber Monday, Black Friday, Turquoise Tuesday…okay, I made that last one up. There was a small amount of hype for last week's much-anticipated day of online sales, Green Monday. Though few retailers failed to call the day by its (formal?) name, Green Monday – a term coined by eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY)...
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Morgan Stanley Reiterates Overweight on Amazon.com
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 11:41am | 99Read More...Morgan Stanley maintains its Overweight rating on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) as final Cyber Monday data is published. Piper Jaffray comments, “comScore estimates Cyber Monday sales hit $1.25B domestically, up +22% y/y. ChannelAdvisor estimates Cyber Monday sales growth at +24.6%. IBM...
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Is Cyber Monday a Joke?
Monday, November 28, 2011 - 11:57am | 757Read More...Is today a big day for savings, or just a big day for retailers to cash in on gullible consumers? That depends on where you shop. While Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) shoppers could get lost in the mountain of discounts being offered today, many corporations are taking advantage of the Cyber Monday...
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Deutsche Bank Reiterates Buy, $240 Target on Amazon
Monday, November 28, 2011 - 8:15am | 123Read More...In an industry research note, Deutsche Bank maintains its Buy rating and $246 price target on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) as third-party data shows the company outpacing its peers on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Deutsche Bank says, “ChannelAdvisor same store sales (SSS) data for...
