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December trading strategies, gift cards to buy & avoid and cyber monday shopping guide - Today in Money 12/1
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Some figures picked up in the media from research house ShopperTrak showed retail sales on Black Friday up 3%, which was much better than the most gloomy forecasts. The level of consumer spending may not stay high, but it is an indication that the holiday may not be a complete washout for a retail industry which was already on the ropes. For the last several years, e-commerce holiday sales have...
Filed under: Consumer experience, Internet, eBay (EBAY), Amazon.com (AMZN), Marketing and advertising, Black FridayIf you thought Black Friday was just for brick-and-mortar retail, think again. The official start of the online shopping rush is the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday (Cyber Monday is its name), but don't think that companies like Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Blue Nile (NASDAQ: NI...
Overall holiday spending this year could be down high-single digits to low double digits versus Xmas 2007, according to a new survey by J.P. Morgan. Imran Khan, Morgan’s Internet analyst, asserts that e-commerce spending this season will be about flat with last year. That’s pretty consistent with recent findings from comScore, which found a 4% drop in year-over-year online spending ...
Retail experts are predicting one of the most dismal holiday shopping seasons in decades this year – a crucial stretch that will set the stage for poor retail sales throughout 2009. As the U.S. economy decelerates, pummeled by the aftershocks of the worldwide financial crisis, consumers have been hit from every direction: Unemployment has spiked, and will continue to rise, economy unwinds...
Filed under: Internet, Yahoo! (YHOO), eBay (EBAY), Amazon.com (AMZN)I saw some interesting Nielsen data posted at Silicon Alley Insider the other day about traffic levels at eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY). They seem to be on the decline. I don't want to spend time repeating a bunch of the numbers here, but suffice to say that trends in unique visitors and page views on a year-over-year basis have not been...
Filed under: Earnings reports, Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN)Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) released its Q4 earnings on Tuesday. Did the numbers have all the makings of a hit? To start off, revenues declined over 1%. That's not hit material, to be certain. Here's something that might get your toes tapping, however: income from continuing operations came in at $0.04 per share, a pretty musi...
Borders Group (BGP) late yesterday said it is “no longer contemplating” the sale of the company. (You have to think that’s because they can’t find anyone to buy it.) That news, combined with some fairly ugly results for the fiscal third quarter ended November 1, has the stock reeling. Combined with the recently punk numbers from Barnes & Noble (BKS), the latest resu...
If you were planning to buy that special someone on your holiday shopping list an Amazon (AMZN) Kindle e-book reader, you better come up with something else. Amazon notes on its Web site that “due to heavy customer demand, Kindle is sold out.” Amazon advises ordering now though “to reserve place in line,” noting that orders will be filled on a first come, first served ba...
Filed under: Products and services, Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN), Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), Blockbuster Inc 'A' (BBI)Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) is the latest company in the world. It was late to get into the business of sending DVDs in the mail and got murdered by NetFlix (NASDAQ: NFLX). It was late to the VOD market and took a beating from cable companies, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Amazon (NASD...