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Street Ends With Light Losses
Sobering Treasury auction drags market down, but fall provides entry point for traders as stocks finish off lows.
Fiat Closes Chrysler Deal
Trade deficit rises; Home Depot grows optimistic.
Light-Volume Session Drifts South
Stocks fall as Citi converts, Chrysler lives and inflation ebbs.
Home Depot Lifts Guidance
Chrysler, Fiat complete deal; Soleil upgrades Yahoo!
Early U.S. Rally Hits The Brakes
Stocks stumble after charging out of the gate on Home Depot's improved forecast.
Obama's 'Wise Latina'
Is she a liberal in the Ginsburg mold, or someone more left wing?
Housing Disappointment Drives Mixed Session
Major averages finish weakly, but market breadth is positive; Fed offers loose outline of TARP payback schedule.
Housing Starts Tumble
Disappointing report on home construction; Home Depot reaffirms forecast.
Housing Still Hurting, But Street Shows Some Fight
Government reports drop in home construction, but resilient stocks limit losses.
Drop In Home Building Dents Wall Street
Housing starts and permit applications slump in April; investors rethink housing market stability hopes and stocks creep lower.
Earnings: Home Depot, Saks
Retailers are in focus after Monday rally.
Investors Await Housing Data
This is a transcript of the Market Update: Outlook video report.
Street Rises On Home Builders
U.S. Housing Market Index rose to 16 from 14 in April.
Week Ahead: Target, Home Depot
JA Solar, Yingli report; housing starts, building permits on tap.
Paid Search Traffic Down Sharply
How Chrysler Put The Bite On Cerberus
A firm notorious for its secrecy gets a very public black eye.
Home Depot Founder On Nanotechnology
Bernie Marcus on investing part of his fortune in a fast-growing field.
How To 'Green' Your Home
Think twice before starting with solar panels.
Melding Content And Technology
The media needs experts who can bridge the gap between information and technologies.
Billionaires Who Are Hiring
Billionaires and billionaire-owned companies that are expanding and hiring.
Five Leadership Lessons From Obama's Second Month
Once again, he has gotten more right than wrong, and we can all learn from his experience.
Tech Rally Brings Stocks Up
This is a transcript of the Market Update: Afternoon video report.
Cisco, Apple Lead Tech Rally
Home Depot, Lowe's upgraded; Nokia cuts 1,700 jobs.
Transcript: Barry Ritholtz
Steve Forbes interviews Barry Ritholtz, head of the research firm Fusion IQ.
Home Improvement Tips For Those Who Can't Move
Would-be sellers are turning to small renovations and cosmetic upgrades to achieve a shadow of the plans they had for new spaces.
Forbes.com: hd
The latest Forbes.com news on the ticker hd.
HEALTHSHARES (TM) INC. Financials (EDGAR Online Financials)
HealthShares Throws In Towel; Liquidating All ETFs (IndexUniverse.com)
HealthShares closes its last four ETFs; XShares says it is committed to ETF marketplace.
HealthShares Relaunches Four Surviving ETFs (IndexUniverse.com)
With higher average market-cap sizes, the remaining funds seek to cut volatility and capture bigger slices of each market. HealthShares, which earlier this year shut down 15 of its exchange-trade...
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No Worm For The Early Bird 15 ETFs Closing (ETFguide.com)
San Diego - - XShares Advisors announced the second round of ETF liquidations. What ETFs could be next in line to be closed?
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Final Glance: Specialty Retail companies
NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of some top specialty retail companies were down at the close of trading: 2009 07 02 18:15
Market Fizzles Before Fourth
All 30 Dow stocks closed lower in the last session before the holiday weekend. Oil was down more than $2 a barrel, while unemployment rose to 9.5%. 2009 07 02 17:17
Dow Watch: Overtime Play
Blue-chip stocks got getting hammered on feather-light volume heading into the July Fourth weekend. 2009 07 02 16:26
Midday Glance: Specialty Retail companies
NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of some top specialty retail companies are down at noon: 2009 07 02 13:14
Early Glance: Specialty Retail companies
NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of some top specialty retail companies are down at 10 a.m.: 2009 07 02 10:35
Retail Sharks Snacking; Guppies Starving
The new Stores Top 100 shows that this year's top retailers are those that offer food, household goods and other basics at low prices. 2009 07 01 15:23
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News about Home Depot Inc
Home Depot Raises Its Outlook for Year
The home improvement retailer said it now expected its earnings to be anywhere from flat to down 7 percent.
Sales Fall 10%, but Home Depot Tops Forecasts
First-quarter profit at the home-improvement chain climbed 44 percent on fewer charges and the company maintained its annual earnings forecast.
Home Depot Girds for Continued Weakness
The leadership of Home Depot has decided to move from a culture of expansion to one that is less vulnerable to consumer and credit slowdowns.
The Meltdown in Home Furnishings
Many well-known home-related retailers and manufacturers, as well as home design magazines, are faltering in the current economic downturn.
Home Depot to Close Design Centers and Cut Jobs
The home improvement retailer said that it would cut 7,000 jobs and close its Expo chain as the recession continues to batter the nation’s housing market.
62,000 Jobs Are Cut by U.S. and Foreign Companies
Monday’s toll included 20,000 cuts at Caterpillar, 8,000 at Sprint Nextel, 7,000 at Home Depot and 8,000 from the expected merger of Pfizer and Wyeth.
Layoffs Spread to More Sectors of the Economy
Companies across the board are resorting to mass job cuts, suggesting that employers expect a long downturn.
For U.S.O.C., Sponsorships Become a Challenge
The U.S. Olympic Committee is heading into an economically troubled year without several of its biggest and longest-standing sponsors.
Rough Quarter for 2 Major Retailers
Saks said it lost more than expected in the third quarter amid job losses on Wall Street and stock market turmoil, while Home Depot said quarterly profit sank 31 percent on slow sales.
Thriftiness on Special in Aisle 5
Several chain stores have concluded that providing information about how to manage a household on a budget can spur loyalty.
Leaving Boardroom for Skybox
When you think about it, the sports business in this country is dominated by self-made men looking for mountains to conquer.
Home Repairs Become Focus as Consumers Feel Pinched
With the housing market in the doldrums and inflation running at a pace unseen in nearly two decades, consumers are not buying new homes. Instead they are focusing on repairs.
Day Laborers and Home Depot
Los Angeles’s proposed ordinance to require more orderly hiring sites for day laborers is a small measure that makes a huge amount of sense.
Home Depot Offers Recycling for Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
Home Depot’s move will create the nation’s most widespread recycling program for the energy-saving bulbs, which have to be properly disposed of since they contain small amounts of mercury.
The Goal Is to Do the Right Thing
Small businesses are trying to provide information to consumers about why their products are considered “green.” Nonetheless, there are few definite rules or standards.
NYT > Home Depot Inc.
Since its founding in 1978, Home Depot and its orange-smocked employees have ruled the American home improvement industry, making it the second-largest retailer in the country, after Wal-Mart.
But now the chain is at a crossroads. After years of staggering growth, it faces stiff competition from Lowe’s and it has struggled to weather a downturn in the housing market.
While Home Depot has emerged from the credit crisis strong enough to borrow at attractive rates now, it has chosen not to do so. Frank Blake, the chairman and chief executive, has charted a course away from expansion, one that he holds out as a template for running a big company in postrecession America. In his view, hard times and less generous credit are restricting consumption and undermining the corporate expansion that drove economic growth in recent years. The best response, he decided, is to focus on Home Depot's most profitable core business: existing retail outlets.
If Mr. Blake is right, a streamlined Home Depot will emerge stronger than its rivals. And if he is wrong, the company could risk losing its dominant position as the nation's favored shopping destination for do-it-your-selfers as well as contractors who build and refurbish homes.
Home Depot has faced internal challenges in recent years as well. In 2000, hoping to avert a slowdown, its founders, Arthur Blank and Bernard Marcus, put the future of the company in the hands of a former top General Electric executive, Robert L. Nardelli.
At first, Mr. Nardelli appeared to be the kind of savior investors craved. He doubled Home Depot’s annual sales and constructed a new wholesale business, called Home Depot Supply, that focused on professional builders, theoretically insulating the company from swings in the housing market.
But Mr. Nardelli could not lift the company’s languid stock price, ran the chain with an authoritarian style that drove away experienced managers and demanded a lavish pay package -- a fatal combination that led to his ouster in 2006.
Since then, his successor, Frank Blake, has tried to undo Mr. Nardelli’s legacy. He sold the wholesale supply business, which had come to be considered a distraction from Home Depot’s struggling stores, and invested heavily in recruiting a top-notch store staff.
Mr. Blake’s first major move, the sale of the supply division, was marred by troubles in the credit market. Originally priced at more than $10 billion, it was eventually sold on Aug. 28, 2007, for $8.5 billion.
During the boom years, total revenue at Home Depot rose with each new store opening, reaching nearly $80 billion in 2007. The average revenue of its stores declined, though, as some customers shifted to the newer outlets.
When the recession hit full force in the fall of 2008, customers simply spent less, and average store revenue really fell, bringing total revenue down to an estimated $65 billion this year. Addressing this issue, Mr. Blake's often-stated goal is to jack up annual sales in existing stores, to $350 a square foot of floor space, on average, from $300.