Filed under: Rants and raves , Competitive strategy , Microsoft (MSFT) , Ford Motor (F) , Market matters , Money and Finance Today , Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) , Chevron Corp (CVX) , Nucor Corp (NUE) , Options , BHP Billiton Ltd ADR (BHP) , Wells Fargo (WFC) , Bargain stocks , Anglo Amer ADR (AAUK) , S and P 500 , DJIA , Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG) , American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) Where on earth can you buy things on sale for less than bargain prices? Imagine that you were shopping for a nice shirt, or watch, or bicycle and you have been tracking the prices all year (or ten) and the thing finally goes on sale.

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Serious Money: The world’s dumbest market

Filed under: Competitive strategy , Sears Holdings (SHLD) Sears Holdings Corporation ’s (NASDAQ: SHLD ) storied and failed strategy in the last few years under the auspices of investor Eddie Lampert just keeps chugging along. Lampert thought he could turn Sears Holdings into an investment company that happened to have a retail operation attached.

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Sears set to return to the toy market after decades of not being in it

Today was supposed to be all about GDP.

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Closing Bell: A barely positive day for month-end (FSLR, LVS, LVLT, MOT)

Filed under: Earnings reports , Ford Motor (F) , Goodyear Tire and Rubber (GT) The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NYSE: GT ) is having a good day. Shares of Goodyear are up almost 8% in afternoon trading. Volume looks healthy, too.

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Goodyear beats analysts, stock heads higher

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Filed under: Products and services , Best Buy (BBY) When Circuit City went out of business this past Spring, there really was not much left in its wake. Competitive retailers like Best Buy, Inc.

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Best Buy should be interested in Circuit City’s Firedog brand

Filed under: Earnings reports NetSuite (NYSE: N ) is one of the top players in the cloud-computing sector. In fact, three of the four most recent tech IPOs — OpenTable (NASDAQ: OPEN ), SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI ), and LogMeIn (NASDAQ: LOGM ) — use the company’s software to do things like manage customer relationships, financials, ecommerce, and so on. This momentum is helping to boost NetSuite’s top line

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NetSuite revs up the dealmaking

Filed under: Columns , Business of sports It’s like clockwork, seriously … recently, every year around the Baseball Hall of Fame inductions there is news that A) Bud Selig is or isn’t considering lifting the lifetime ban against Pete Rose and B) names from the list of players who tested positive in 2003 are leaked

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JockStocks: Will steroids ever drive fans away from baseball?

Filed under: Forecasts , Politics Ever wonder why it’s so hard for the United States to pass public policies — particularly economic ones — and relatively easy for European nations to do so? Well, part of it is our constitutional system — which separates power — as opposed to Europe’s parliamentarian system, which concentrates or fuses power.

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The U.S.: One nation, economically, or three?

Filed under: Earnings reports , Revlon (REV) , Avon Products (AVP) Revlon, Inc. (NYSE: REV ) is, simply put, not one of my favorite investment ideas.

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Revlon up on second-quarter news — am I wrong about company?

All of a sudden, investors don’t seem to have a care in the world. The market is going up and up, and complacency has set in. One way investors measure this complacency is through an index called the “VIX.” VIX measures the implied volatility of a basket of options on the S&P 500 index.

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ETF to hedge against portfolio risk: VXX