Thursday, July 10th, 2008
WalMart (NYSE:WMT), a retail bellweather, has reported June same store sales that are better than expected. The company had expected SSS to be in the 4% range for June, but actual numbers were up 6.1%.
Sales of Sam's Clubs stores open more that one year were up 4.6%.
"The ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Eric Logan is the new Executive Vice President at Harpo Productions. The role is a newly created one for Logan, who will report directly to Tim Bennett, the company President who created Logan's new job especially for him.
Logan is understandably upbeat about his new position.
"I'm very excited to be ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The Dow Jones dipped by 300 points today as investors worried about interest rate increases dumped stocks. There was quite a bit of bad news to for everyone to digest.
The passel of worries that investors juggled Thursday added up to an increasingly troubled economy. Analysts' negative comments on General ...
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