Target Corporation (TGT)

Here's a complex bet on TGT, as I have high hopes for this retailer's earnings on Wednesday.

The key is not where the stock closes today but where it closes this week.

Third quarter earnings season is down to the really nitty gritty. That said, there are still quite a few well known (to the public) retailers set to bring up the rear.

Google's Project Nightingale exemplifies the headline risk facing big-cap tech names.

The Chinese e-commerce giant crushes even Amazon Prime Day, but it still needs some political wins to get where it wants to go; here's how to play the stock now.

As forecasts for a hot shopping season roll in, here are the retailers most likely to benefit this year.

As the indexes touch all-time highs, remember the challenges thrown at us lately are typical of what bull markets thrive on.

The market is throwing a Halloween sale right now that it doesn't need to throw, and that's an opportunity.

The stocks of many companies anticipated a more stringent series of tariffs and we didn't get them.

A handful of standouts among the dozen stocks that make up the Tax-Loss Selling Recovery Portfolio pushed the group higher over the last month.

On the biggest day for earnings reports in the S&P let me give you my scorecard to date so you know which pile your stocks might land in.

Let's review the charts for some parameters.

Let me give you the items I want to see before I bless buying anything in what has become a plain, out and out, treacherous market.

Partnership with Toys R Us will improve Target's dominance in the category.

The retailer's shares are jumping after it hired a former Target exec as its CEO, but whether the rise constitutes a breakout gap is unclear at this point.

I think both the U.S. and China 'get' the importance of at least setting up further talks, while coming away with something immediately understood by the public as positive.

Investors need to do what works for them in markets where trading action is extremely random.

Plus, pining for the days of thoughtful price discovery in the markets.

If your goal is to ratchet up trade tension? There couldn't been a better moment, hence one of the worst moments for the stock market since the trade battle began.

The proprietary oscillator I follow, the S&P's short-range oscillator, is the most important indicator I follow.

Jeff Bezos' firm is reportedly planning to open a chain of low-cost grocery stores, as Walmart continues seeing strong growth for its grocery pickup services.

Let's consider the case of what would be the best odds on favorites to start a new position in the Dow Jones average.

I don't love it, but I don't hate it.

There are definitely worse places to invest than in the equity of BBY.

This stock is currently overvalued, don't buy at what may be a 'should have sold' moment.

Molson Coors, Target and International Flavors & Fragrances have all performed well since being singled out.

FedEx's weak quarterly earnings -- even with TNT Express costs aside -- give us some real-world proof that global growth is slowing.

As the shipping company reports Tuesday night, headwinds blowing from Amazon and China trade are strong, but there's a chance of an unexpected move to the upside or activist investor news.

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