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New JCP CEO Ron Johnson over promised and under delivered, resulting in a hideous first-quarter report.
Its European sales and same-store comps tell us that this stock deserves to be down.
When it verbalizes its poor results on the call, these points will likely remain unspoken.
Management will likely provide a strategy to break through the company's peak operating margin.
Dip-buying hasn't worked this quarter, and the Fed is no longer acting as a backstop.
If retail sales come in weak Tuesday, these will be the reasons why.
Short-sellers are urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to take aim at this industry.
While there are a couple of positives to the Wal-Mart story, they don't outweigh these headwinds.
The company is exposed to private-label competition when its patents expire.
What income inequality trend data can and can't tell us.

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| May 16, 2012
| 4:04 PM EDT
U.S. stocks again gave up early gains and finished Wednesday lower....
| May 16, 2012
| 2:58 PM EDT
Stocks are hovering around flat, but the credit market is trading very poorly. Bid-wanteds in cash are rolling in, especially in the go-go financial names....

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