Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) announced on Thursday that its same-store sales plummeted 29% in August. These results were worse than the expected drop of 23.9%. Sales in all of its divisions were worse than expected, with sales at the Abercro...

Retail giant Kohl's reported second-quarter earnings this morning, saying they fell 3% due to higher expenses. Despite the drop, KSS managed to top expectations with the latest results. KSS pulled in 75 cents per share for the quart...

Royal Caribbean Cruises stock is falling today after the company reported a second-quarter loss of $35.1 million, or 16 cents per share, worse than analysts' forecasts of a loss of 13 cents per share. RCL also forecast ...

Oil firm ConocoPhillips reported second-quarter earnings of 87 cents per share this morning, barely edging the consensus estimate calling for 85 cents per share. Despite topping the consensus estimate, the results fell well short of last ...

As Melly Alazraki noted earlier today, McDonald's Corp. is one of many heavy hitters to take the earnings stage today. Unfortunately, the fast-food firm didn't exactly impress with its latest quarterly figures; the company struggl...

This post is part of a special report, Top Picks for 2010, the 27th annual survey in which TheStockAdvisors.com asks the nation's leading advisors for their single favorite stock for the new year. See all 80 stocks listed here. "Medical equipment...

On the final trading session before Christmas, Apple, Inc. (AAPL) shares hit an all-time high thanks to a published report hinting that another product announcement may be rolling in. On December 23, the Financial Times reported on its Tech Blog that...

Today was a low volume trading day without much economic fanfare as many market participants were out or were talking about the Christmas holiday rather than the markets. The manufacturing output was reported for the Dallas and Chicago Fed Districts,...

Revenue hasn't been as fast to change as end-user sentiment, but all that looks like it's coming to an end next year. Social networking site Facebook, which passed 350 million users last month, is poised to move ahead of rival MySpace in ad revenue in...

Best wishes to all and, next to world peace among people, we should hope for the same among world markets. I have let some time pass before commenting on a recent example of how fragile a world we live in. This past year through a time of greater...