Following are the day’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Burlington Northern and AIG popped while Kraft Foods dropped.   Read More

Following are the day’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of IMS Health and Lamar Advertising popped while American Eagle and Whole Foods Market dropped.   Read More

Shares of teen apparel retailers are getting hit particularly hard Thursday in the wake of October same-store sales results. It's not surprising. This sector is facing some tough challenges. Teen unemployment has been at historically high levels. This means teens have less money to spend on jeans and T-shirts.    Read More

Chartologists, including Greg Troccoli, are seeing a head-and-shoulders formation taking hold on the S&P today. Is it signaling a market reversal?   Read More

October retail sales generally positive, not as robust as last month, but we don't have the back to school stimulus that we had last month.    Read More

Commodities and commodity stocks higher pre-open on Alcoa earnings. While Alcoa is getting all the attention, Australia is again helping Asian markets due to a much better than expected jobs report there...Australia reported an increase of 40,600 jobs in August versus a forecast of a drop of 10,000 jobs.    Read More

As of 9:12 this morning, 100% of retailers tracked by Thomson Reuters have reported same store sales.  Here is a breakdown of where things stand.   Read More

There were four REIT IPOs scheduled to price this week and next, all designed to pick at the carcasses of commercial and residential properties, most of it on the mortgage side. So far, only two have priced, both of those a day late, and both raised half what they anticipated.    Read More

The Dow hit a new 11-month high and capped its best week in two months on Friday after Procter & Gamble as well as other stocks advanced on positive brokerage comments.   Read More

Following are the day’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of American Eagle and Nokia popped while Sun Microsystems and McGraw-Hill dropped.   Read More