A take on business from Times Square
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Key players in the off-price retail sector are showing signs of a mid-pandemic rebound as investors bank on the economic crisis spurring long-term demand for discount goods.
Recreational stocks spiked this summer as lockdowns eased and Americans scrambled to escape their homes into the great outdoors.
Stock prices for three of the biggest grocery stores in America have soared over the past six months, outperforming the S&P 500.
Big technology stocks have had three rough weeks, triggering the tech collapse of 2000. But as the pandemic drags on, analysts are optimistic.
Antitrust suits weigh on sinking big tech After soaring to record highs in August, shares of big tech stocks have driven markets lower this month as developing antitrust cases against four tech mega-caps stoke fears about the sector’s long-term viability.
Harley Davidson built its image on attracting one demographic: white male baby boomers, the tough guys on big loud bikes.
Square Inc., a starry-eyed Silicon Valley tech company, is challenging brutally competitive Wall Street, where traditional banks and payment processors maintain their stranglehold.
Millennials are known as the renter generation, losing their sense of ownership as living costs rise and wages don’t.
Wall Street will have its ears on the ground in San Francisco on March 18 because that’s when Square is planning to have its next analyst day, with the last being in 2017, this will pave the next decade for Square.
When Daniel Dogette, an aircraft technician for Jet Blue entered Macy’s during the 2018 Black Friday sale, he found himself in a frenzy of shoppers trying to fight each other for the items on sale.
President Trump’s endless trade war with China and his administration’s threat to delist its companies from American exchanges is a threat to economic growth, says the CEO of the nation’s second largest exchange.
As streaming giants like Netflix and Hulu steal the stage, traditional pay TV is struggling to keep up.
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