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Will it be Powell and Nike, Inc. (NYSE: NKE) to the rescue after Monday’s steep slide? Stay tuned to find out. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is up on Capitol Hill later this morning and NKE reports earnings after the close. Both could provide a welcome distraction from what’s...

Instead of calming things down, the two-day break just seemed to add to the market’s problems after three red weeks in a row.  It’s easy to point to possible reasons why futures fell off a cliff overnight, but three big ones stand out, all based on developments since Friday’s...

This weekend's Barron's suggests ways to play the unusual back to school season. Other featured articles look at some "special stocks" and at the one company responsible for the all-time high stock market. Also, the prospects for a standout hotel stock, a cloud giant in need of a...

This weekend's Barron's suggests ways to play U.S.-China tensions and the stock-splitting trend. Other featured articles look at how the election could affect health care stocks and what to expect from big-box retail earnings. Also, the prospects for a pharmaceutical giant, regional bank...

Gap Inc (NYSE: GPS) which belongs to the Zacks Retail – Apparel and Shoes industry reported Q4 and full-year results last week that beat expectations. After a downward guidance revision prior to releasing its previous (third quarter) results, Gap's fourth-quarter earnings and sales...

Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included a big-box retailer and a package delivery giant. Bearish calls included a leading pharmaceutical maker and an Apple supplier. For the second time in a row, the major U.S. indexes...

Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) has sold out of all gear related to Kobe Bryant from its online stores. "A Nike spokesman said on Tuesday that the merchandise had sold out and clarified the company didn’t remove Kobe Bryant products or ask retailers to send them back," according to a report...

Nike Inc (NYSE: NKE) reported its fiscal second quarter earnings on Dec 19 after the bell. And there were good news, as both earnings and revenue topped expectations. But instead of going up, shares went down 3 percent up due to a miss on gross margin and its North American sales which are nothing...

The big-volume session some people were expecting this week hasn’t come yet. Today is the last chance, and might be for a while when you consider the next two weeks are holiday-shortened and many participants are likely to be absent. With quadruple witching today as contracts for...

Politics in Washington dominate the headlines today, but Wall Street’s collective eye appears more focused on late-year earnings reports and a potential big test in the Treasury market.   Nike Inc (NYSE: NKE) reports later today after Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ: MU) lit...

A lot of holiday packages got wrapped up last week, including a Phase One trade deal, a Fed meeting, and the UK election, but the week ahead still has a few bows left to tie. We’re in the home stretch of 2019, with this week probably the last of the year to feature any major volume before...

Oregon-based footwear giant Nike Inc (NYSE: NKE) has been awarded a blockchain patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to create digital versions of its shoes. Blockchain Shoes In the patent published on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website on Tuesday, Nike said that its...

It's still two months before former eBay's boss John Donahoe takes charge of Nike Inc's (NYSE: NKE) boat, but significant alterations are already taking place. And one significant change is that Nike products will no longer be available on no other than eBay's main competitor, the e...

Trouble Is on the Horizon for Retail Chains Home Depot Inc (NYSE: HD) just reported its third quarter earnings. The Atlanta-based company trimmed its fiscal year sales outlook, explaining that its sales fell below expectations because of the timing of benefits of its strategic investments. For...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport seized 14,806 pairs of counterfeit Nike shoes with an estimated manufacturer's suggested retail price of about $2.2 million.  The CBP officers coordinated the seizure with the agency's import specialists assigned to...