Consumer Confidence
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In the decade since K-Mart and Sears merged, both companies are struggling to keep customers coming back. Paul Swinand, Morningstar analyst, explains what he believes is holding them back, and where they're headed from here.
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Consumers' confidence remained weak in September after dropping to a post-recession low during the month before as Americans continue to worry about high unemployment and low wages.
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CNBC's Rick Santelli breaks down the numbers on consumer confidence and the market's reaction.
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CNBC's Rick Santelli reports on bond yields and the U.S. dollar from the CME.
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Neil Hennessy, The Hennessy Funds, and Peter Coleman, JMP Securities, discuss how investors should be positioning themselves as major averages rally on Monday.
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The last thing parents will cut back on is Christmas present for their kids, says Gerald Storch, Toys R Us chairman/CEO, who says even in economic uncertainty, his company is planning to hire more than 40,000 holiday workers.
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The housing crisis has even hit the Napa Valley. Jane Wells talks to buyers, sellers, and realtors about steals and deals in wine country.
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Starts are down 5 percent and permits are up 3.2 percent, so it's a middling number that's not great and not terrible, reports CNBC's Rick Santelli. And Thomas Falk, Kimberly-Clark chairman & CEO, talks about the American consumer.
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The Fed begins a two-day meeting and the talk turns to Operation Twist, with CNBC's Steve Liesman & Joe Kernen, and Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times. CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera reports on the downgrade of Italy's credit rating. Also, Washington Post columnist Neil Irwin discusses today's Fed meeting.
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Euro leaders squabble and the Russian ruble is rocked - it's time for your Friday FX Fix.
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A look at the retailers introducing price cuts and programs targeted to holiday shoppers, with Brian Sozzi, Wall Street Strategies senior research analyst.
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The picture on the bleak jobs market, with one of the biggest online professional networks CEO, Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn..
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CNBC's Carl Quintanilla moderates a panel on real estate. Many real estate investors got torched during the financial crisis. Is now the time to come back to real estate, with Bill Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management LP founder and CEO; Barry Sternlicht, Starwood Capital Group chairman & CEO; and Sam Zell, Equity Group Investments chairman.
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The US Treasury would effectively accommodate a possible Federal Reserve stimulus to drive down long-term interest rates, according to people familiar with the matter. The FT reports.
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The media has been focusing on the distressed areas where jobs are being lost, says Jay Jordan, The Jordan Company chairman/managing principal, who adds his company is adding jobs; with Larry Bossidy, former Honeywell chairman/CEO.
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Friday’s disappointing US non-farm payrolls data showed no jobs where created in the US in August sending stocks sharply lower as fears over a recession intensified.
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Michael Aitken, chief scientist at Capital Markets CRC Limited, says U.S. regulators should differentiate various categories of HFT as some of them are actually positive for markets.
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Don Luskin, chief investment officer at trend macro, says that the U.S. job market is not as bad as what everybody says. Tai Hui, regional head of economic research, Southeast Asia at Standard Chartered says that no net job increase for the month of August is great hindrance to the U.S. consumer sector.
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The week's top business news and investment advice, including telecom and retail picks, with CNBC's Oriel Morrison.
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Discussing whether investors should panic as consumer confidence clocks its worst level since April 2009, with Russ Koesterich, iShares Global.
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If President Obama wants to create more jobs and fix the economy, he should "put down a marker" and fight the Republicans in Congress, Robert Reich told CNBC Thursday.