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The Motley Fool October 25, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer |
U.S. Consumers Are Feeling Quite Ill Get the lowdown on the big news and what it means for your portfolio. We certainly don't want to minimize what a sour consumer mood could mean heading into the holiday season.  |
The Motley Fool October 6, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
Fool Poll: How Much Will You Spend This Holiday Season? Should retailers be smiling or frowning?  |
The Motley Fool December 2, 2009 Claire Stephanic |
Can Best Buy Beat Wal-Mart? Does Best Buy have a chance this holiday season, or will Wal-Mart once again stomp out the competition?  |
The Motley Fool January 12, 2012 David Williamson |
1 Market-Moving Event Investors Need to Watch The economic calendar is packed with important releases today.  |
The Motley Fool May 22, 2009 Rich Duprey |
Surprise! Sears Holdings Pockets a Profit The troubled retailer surprises investors with a quarterly profit.  |
The Motley Fool March 11, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
How to Build a Better S&P 500 As terrific as S&P 500 index funds can be, they're not perfect. But a newer, potentially better kind of index fund could help fix one of their biggest weaknesses.  |
The Motley Fool September 1, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Mutual Fund Fakery Is your expensive, managed fund really an index fund in disguise?  |
The Motley Fool January 27, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
These Investments Could Steer You Wrong Index funds and exchange-traded funds aren't perfect.  |
The Motley Fool January 16, 2008 Rich Duprey |
Sears Isn't Where It Should Be The discount retailer has no fire left as comps, and profits, fall again.  |
The Motley Fool February 22, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Red Hot Kohl's Kohl's margins have been marching upwards across the board. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool December 27, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Why the Dow's Barely Moving Today A brief look at the market's moves so far on Tuesday.  |
The Motley Fool January 7, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
Shoppers' Pockets Picked Coach Leather retailer joins list of upscale holiday successes.  |
The Motley Fool August 28, 2008 Rich Duprey |
No Future in Sight for Sears Holdings The company has completed a full three-year period without a single instance of comps gains.  |
The Motley Fool October 20, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer |
Germany and France Butt Heads Over Policy: What You Need to Know Today's headline macro news: German Chancellor Angela Merkel canceled a speech to the German parliament amid disagreements with France over how to use the European Financial Stability Fund.  |
The Motley Fool December 29, 2011 Brendan Byrnes |
Today's Market Losers The stocks that declined despite a positive day for the markets.  |
The Motley Fool February 25, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Index Funds Are Hard to Beat An eye-opening new study from Standard & Poor's reveals that the majority of managed funds fail to outperform simple index funds. That's right -- funds run by actual human beings still can't beat a copycat strategy of matching a broad index's holdings.  |
The Motley Fool December 27, 2011 Alyce Lomax |
A Horrible Year for Sears It's high time Sears shareholders seek safety and sell.  |
The Motley Fool October 31, 2008 Rich "Handcuff Jack" Duprey |
World's Scariest Stock: Sears Holdings There's no resurrecting this retailer's corpse.  |
The Motley Fool October 8, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Wow -- Some Stocks Are Still Up?! Who knew stocks could rise in this environment?  |
The Motley Fool November 8, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
6 Stocks That Could See Massive Buying An idiosyncrasy with the S&P 500 index could force index funds to buy these stocks.  |
The Motley Fool October 24, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer |
Survey Shows Economists Getting More Bearish The National Association for Business Economics released its October survey today, which revealed that NABE members aren't as confident about U.S. economic growth as they were earlier in the year.  |
The Motley Fool December 3, 2007 Rich Smith |
Lampert's Lament News flash: Sears is a retailer. But what kind of retailer? The answer is important to investors.  |
Financial Planning July 1, 2005 |
Mutual Fund Monitor Finding great fund managers. Here are recommendations: Bond Fund - Loomis-Sayles Bond... Large-Cap Growth Funds: Harbor Capital Appreciation... etc.  |
The Motley Fool February 9, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
3 Reasons to Move Beyond Index Funds If you want to take your investing prowess to the next level you'll want to move beyond index funds -- at least with part of your savings.  |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
Will This Investment Crush Your Funds? Boring old index funds might be more powerful than you think.  |
The Motley Fool September 15, 2006 David Meier |
The Tools for Change Craftsman tools are now sold at K-Mart. Investors, is it a sign of future changes?  |
The Motley Fool November 5, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
Credit Coal in Christmas Stockings This year, many Americans will face holiday shopping without their usual reliance on credit cards, and that will do a number on many consumer-facing stocks in the near term.  |
The Motley Fool December 19, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
You Probably Just Bought These Stocks More index moves demand investor attention.  |
The Motley Fool August 23, 2010 Rich Duprey |
Sears Gets Sucked Into a Black Hole The retailer can't escape the gravitational pull of this loss-generating abyss.  |
InternetNews January 11, 2010 |
Slight Holiday Downtick for Consumer Electronics For the consumer electronics industry, this holiday season may fairly be described as "less bad" than last year, according to a recent market analysis from NPD Group.  |
The Motley Fool November 16, 2007 Timothy M. Otte |
Kohl's All Dressed Up, but Going Nowhere Third-quarter earnings were down 10% on a sales slide. With slower traffic and growing inventories, consumers can expect to find some great bargains in Kohl's; is the stock one of them?  |
The Motley Fool January 3, 2012 Mercedes Cardona |
Holiday Hangover: Forget the Rising Sales Cheap shoppers will keep retailers' earnings marked down.  |
The Motley Fool September 29, 2011 Alyce Lomax |
Unhappy Holidays for Best Buy Holiday hiring takes a tumble.  |
The Motley Fool November 23, 2011 Alyce Lomax |
Those With the Most (Discounted) Toys Win The Black Friday toy wars have already begun. Wal-Mart has shown its aggressive form of desperation by executing fast and deep price cuts on popular toys.  |
The Motley Fool December 12, 2003 Alyce Lomax |
Sears Slashes, Mad Dashes? The department store retailer tries the early holiday-sale lure to hook shoppers.  |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2012 Isaac Pino |
Can the Economy Keep Its New Year's Resolution? How consumer confidence will carry the U.S. economy in 2012.  |
The Motley Fool April 18, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Oh, Boy! A New China Index! If you want to invest in China, here comes a new way to do so. The Nasdaq Stock Market thinks that what the world needs now is a new "Nasdaq China Index."  |
The Motley Fool August 22, 2008 Anand Chokkavelu |
Don't Buy the S&P 500 If throttling the market is your goal -- and it should be -- you need to buy individual stocks -- and you need a way to separate the winners from the losers.  |
The Motley Fool December 18, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Improving on Index Funds As the fund universe continues to evolve, new funds have emerged that try to improve on their first-generation counterparts. One fund in particular has its sights set high -- the Rydex S&P Equal Weight ETF.  |
The Motley Fool December 7, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
Why You Should Love "Unstable" Investments This ever-changing index can roll with the market's punches.  |
The Motley Fool May 9, 2011 Alyce Lomax |
Avoid This Shambling, Soulless Wreck of a Stock Sears' pathetic first-quarter tidings show that it isn't wooing customer traffic from rivals, nor is it in much of a position to improve its outlook.  |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2011 Selena Maranjian |
Mutual Funds That Are in the Closet Are No Bargain Make sure you're not severely overpaying for your funds. The problem is closet-indexing, which happens when a fund has too much in common with the S&P 500 index of 500 of America's biggest companies, or with some other index that serves as its benchmark.  |
InternetNews November 28, 2005 Tim Gray |
Retailers Brace For 'Cyber Monday' Onslaught While the holiday shopping season officially kicks off on the Friday following Thanksgiving, the online sales action, expected to hit nearly $20 billion this year, begins on Cyber Monday.  |
The Motley Fool July 11, 2007 Lawrence Rothman |
Sears Holdings Needs Some Craftsmanship Competition and merchandise are posing some big problems. Combining two struggling companies does not usually bring out the best in each. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool February 23, 2010 Rich Duprey |
Sears Holdings Thumbs Nose at Critics The retailer posts a surprisingly strong profit while its chairman chastises detractors.  |
The Motley Fool December 22, 2011 John Grgurich |
Things Are Looking Up, and Down, But Mainly Up Jobless claims hit a new low, while GDP has been revised down.  |
The Motley Fool December 22, 2011 Brendan Byrnes |
Why the Dow Gained for the Third Straight Day An upbeat jobs report helped push the markets higher today.  |
The Motley Fool November 12, 2004 Phil Wohl |
Kohl's Reconnects With Mothers The specialty department store chain goes back to basics to get in touch with its customer base.  |
The Motley Fool February 12, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Throw This Stock Away Every week a stock that seems to be headed for trouble is singled out, then three stocks that might replace it if disaster strikes are suggested. Who gets tossed out this week? Come on down, Sears Holdings.  |
InternetNews January 11, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas |
Online Sales Up, Service Down Two reports highlight growing issues with customer service at Web shopping sites.  |