WASHINGTON _ Standard& Poor's releases S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices for March and the first quarter, 9 a.m. Eastern; The Conference Board releases the Consumer Confidence Index for May, 10 a.m..
CNBC's Courtney Reagan crunches the numbers for the holiday retail season so far. "The 22 reporting retailers post a 3.1% gain and the biggest winners are the bookend retailers: the discounters and the high-end," she says.
The current macroeconomic conditions have been pretty challenging and having an impact on confidence, says Mark Shafir, Citigroup co-head global M&A, who explains why there is a slowdown in big deals.
Record Black Friday sales are pushing Coach, Macy's and Amazon up by more than 6% Monday. Will this carry over into the rest of the holiday season? Kimberly Greenberger, analyst at Morgan Stanley, offers her perspective.
A look at whether the retail sizzle will soon fizzle, with Marshal Cohen, The NPD Group chief industry analyst, who says consumers are spending on themselves more this year due to pent up demand and the wait for discounts.
CNBC's Courtney Reagan tracks online spending on the biggest internet shopping day of the year and takes a look at mobile shopping with the use of Android-based operating systems.
Today might be another record-setting day for online sales. A check on the surging online sales, with Gian Fulgoni, ComScore chairman/co-founder and CNBC's Courtney Reagan.
Oren Etzioni writes articles about artificial intelligence for scholarly journals, is a renowned expert on data mining and gained fame when Microsoft paid $115 million for Farecast, an airline-ticket price predictor he founded.