Kroger

The National Employment Law Office has uncovered a disturbing statistic. Since the job market hit a bottom in February 2010, lower-wage jobs have grown nearly three times faster than jobs that pay more. While the recession has seen companies like McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) thrive -- a 130 percent...

The short interest moves in troubled retail companies were mixed during the latter two weeks of March. The number of shares sold short in Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE), GameStop (NYSE: GME), Office Depot (NYSE: ODP) and Pacific Sunwear (NASDAQ: PSUN) increased somewhat between the March 15 and March...

A research report from UBS (NYSE: UBS) released this week included a list of the analyst's “least preferred” stocks. The stocks on the list had an average potential downside of 20 percent. The list also offers candidates for investors to sell or to short. Three struggling retail stocks made the...

The short interest in troubled retail companies was mixed but overall quiet during the first two weeks of March. The number of shares sold short in Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE), Bon-Ton Stores (NASDAQ: BONT), OfficeMax (NYSE: OMX) and RadioShack (NYSE: RSH) increased somewhat between the February...

Now that Congress and the White House have failed to reach a deal to avoid the federal budget sequester, and with the jobs report coming out on Friday, the attention this week is likely to be elsewhere, rather than on earnings, which have slowed to dribble. A few lingering retail earnings reports...

By and large, the short interest in troubled retail companies declined during the first two weeks of February. However, the number of shares sold short in Avon Products (NYSE: AVP), Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE), GameStop (NYSE: GME) and Pacific Sunwear (NASDAQ: PSUN) increased between the January 31...

So Caribou Coffee (NASDAQ: CBOU) is being acquired by the Joh. A. Benckiser Group, the same outfit that bought Peet's Coffee & Tea in July. Caribou will continue to operate as a standalone business, and it will continue to compete with the likes of Coffee Holding Co. (NASDAQ: JVA), Dunkin...

Kroger (NYSE: KR), which earlier this month bought Axium Pharmacy Holdings, is scheduled to report its third-quarter fiscal 2012 results Thursday, November 29, before the opening bell. Investors will be looking to see how much customer Kroger's loyalty programs have helped fend off the growing...

While the holiday season is in full swing now, the earnings season is winding down. Perhaps the most prominent quarterly reports on this week's schedule those from Kroger, the country's largest grocery store chain, and Tiffany, the iconic purveyor of luxury goods. The consensus forecasts of...

This weekend in Barron's online: a rebound in the housing markets, the prospects for Tesoro, Kyocera and Southwest Airlines, and a review of the Oliver Stone film Arbitrage. Cover Story "Happy at Last" by Jonathan R. Laing. After a six-year decline that wiped out some $7 trillion in household...