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Japan’s Fast Retailing (Pink Sheets:FRCOF) is sitting on $1.4 billion, waiting to find the perfect buyout candidate to come along. In the meantime, it’s expanding its Uniqlo clothing stores into India, Russia and Singapore.
by Stephanie Grimmett
Baltimore — (TFN): While the rest of the retail world is whimpering, writhing and contracting in pain, Fast Retailing [...]
Tags: barneys, fast retailing, forum, frcof, giordano international, Hong Kong, India, japan, retail, russia, Singapore, tokyo, uniqlo, us, yen
"Costco Wholesale Corp., the biggest U.S. warehouse club, may have its best holiday-shopping season since going public 23 years ago because most U.S. retailers are preparing to have their worst since 1979." — Mark Clothier and Lauren Coleman-Lochner, Bloomberg
Blogger’s note: TFN President J. Christoph Amberger hates to say, "I told you [...]
Tags: christoph amberger, club, COST, Costco, holidays, president, recommendation, retail, tfn, walmart, wholesale
"Analysts were expecting Amazon to earn $0.26 per share… and the company reported earnings of $0.37. Revenues nearly doubled from the same period last year." — Rick Pendergraft
Blogger’s note: The recession has deflated American spending. Lack of easy credit is keeping U.S. consumers from buying on a whim, and stores are [...]
"Biotechs offer investors with opportunities to get in on breakthrough technologies, while they are still in the lab… So why have investors stopped investing in these ground-floor companies?" — Jim Nelson
Blogger’s note: Pharmaceutical companies are a well-known haven during a recession. The logic being that, while people may cut back on a [...]
“JCPenney (JCP:NYSE) has filled our rural mailbox with circulars replete with photos of grinning tweens draped in the latest back-to-school fashions… I’ve got bad news for the lot of them: It ain’t working!” — Adam Lass
Blogger’s note: Back-to-school shopping time is almost upon us. But this year, according to Adam [...]
Tags: aapl, Adam Lass, apple, back to school, bbby, bed bath and beyond, jcp, jcpenney, Options, retail, spls, staples
“I definitely began to think less about ‘what if we go into a recession’ and more along the lines of ‘What should I do with my money now?’” — Wayne Mulligan
Blogger’s note: Wayne Mulligan is the founder of Tickerhound, a Web site that’s best described as Yahoo Answers for investors. If that [...]