holiday shopping

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is the biggest shopping day of the year. Within the last few years, several major stores have opened their doors earlier and earlier; now, the pattern has continued pushing and several stores are set to open on Thanksgiving Day. This phenomenon, Black...

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is the biggest shopping day of the year. Over the last few years, however, major stores have opened their doors earlier and earlier, with several stores open on Thanksgiving day itself. This phenomenon has come to be known as Black Thursday, and this...

Deloitte's annual holiday survey is in and paints a positive picture of the U.S. consumer. On October 28, Deloitte released its 29th annual holiday shopping report. The analysts concluded that sales will increase 4.0 percent to 4.5 percent this year, providing retailers with a much-needed...

Here's a look at the top tickers trending on StockTwits.com: Best Buy Thursday morning Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) released a statement saying that it has suffered from a drop in total revenue and sales at its U.S. stores during the all important holiday season. Sales at stores open at least 14...

On Thursday morning, Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) announced holiday results that were disappointing. The company reported revenue of $11.45 billion during the nine week period that ended January 4. The company collected $11.75 billion during the same period last year. Holiday sales were hurt by a...

What may be good news for last-minute Christmas shoppers can also be seen as a sign of alarm from some retailers, who appear to be concerned about both the shortened holiday shopping season this year and word that some consumers have been staying home during the recent bout of winter storms. On...

Investors appeared to be nervous going in to yesterday's close, a sentiment which continued at today's open. With little encouraging data coming out of the holiday shopping figures, investors and traders nervously await Friday's Labor Department November jobgs report which could help determine...

Shoppers looking to avoid long lines and physically draining shopping experiences have started to shift away from brick-and-mortar retailers and more towards online shopping. Even the shoppers who travel to stores are “showrooming," a practice in which the shoppers examine and test out products...

Despite a shorter-than-usual holiday season this year, industry observers expect up to 140 million people do do their holiday shopping, both in-person and on-line, during the upcoming, four-day-long Thanksgiving break. A preliminary shopping survey by the National Retail Federation notes that...

iPhones, Xboxes, PlayStations -- everything you need to be the ultimate gift-giver this December. While not every hot product has been released yet (Xbox One is still roughly a week away), most are already on store shelves. Some of them, such as Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad Air, are already on...

Fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) is slated to report second-quarter earnings on Wednesday, August 15 before market open. Wall Street analysts expect earnings per share (EPS) of $0.17 on revenue of $995.7 million. Abercrombie reported EPS of $0.03 in the previous quarter,...