L.L. Cool J put it best: “Don’t call it a comeback!” While the 80s/90s rapper is far from a retail analyst (he does have his only clothing line though), the idea best describes what I took away from same store sales results for the month of April.    Read More

Retail sales results were almost universally in the red in March--but--retail stock prices were trading in the green. Why? Many on Wall Street were prepared for the weakest sales results in 13 years and that is indeed what we got on Friday.   Read More

High end sales are the last to fall off going into a downturn and the first to pickup coming out of a recession. So what does Tiffany's spacer better than expected earnings tell us about where we are in the middle of those two options?    Read More

Sometimes a stock is hot and other time it just burns. Following are the Fast Money misfires.   Read More

Superbowl foes Eli Manning of the NY Giants and Tom Brady of the New England Patriots had a friendly run-in last night. The two Zegna-clad quarterbacks were chatting it up with NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue on the 3rd floor of the newly refurbished Manhattan Zegna flagship on 5th Avenue. While Eli's fiancee waited around for her man, Giselle Bundchen made a hasty exit when the photo ops began...    Read More

In Wednesday’s Web Extra find out how the traders are playing Saks. Also learn why Pete Najarian is bearish on Motorola.   Read More

There are three - and only three - retail stocks Jeff Macke sanctions buying.   Read More

Find me an analyst or an investor who's excited about this week's same store sales results. Literally, the expectations are so low for this first month of the first quarter, that any indication of a rosier March may cause volatility around share prices when the nation's biggest stores report same store sales results for the month of February on this Thursday.    Read More

Value. Growth. Momentum. Some traders follow just one of these themes while others mix them to make up their styles. See how our traders describe their different trading approaches.    Read More

I've noted that when you are in this kind of uncertain market, everyone becomes a technician. There's a lot of attention now focused on tech stocks, now that both the NASDAQ and NASDAQ 100 have broken to 52-week lows.    Read More