Kroger Finally Addresses Its Biggest Weakness
To take on Amazon and Walmart, Kroger had to form a strategic partnership to bolster online operations.
Top 20 Gold Stocks to Buy Despite Irrational Markets
While gold stocks seemingly offer a viable solution, their overall performance has been unusually disappointing. When it does, today's beaten-up and undervalued gold stocks could witness a robust revival. While I don't begrudge the equities sector enjoying its resilient bull market, the underperformance in gold stocks doesn't quite jibe.
Sears Stores Closing 2018: List of 40 Latest Closures
Sears Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:SHLD) announced that the company is shuttering the doors of at least 40 more stores in the coming months. The retail chain announced that it will be closing 40 Sears and Kmart stores in July and August, according to a Business Insider report from May 19. The company has yet to comment on the matter, which includes 31 Sears locations and nine Kmart stores that will be closing in 24 states.
Consumer Reports finds flaws in Tesla’s Model 3
Musk had driven shares in the electric carmaker 4 percent higher with a weekend twitter discussion which showed the company was aiming initially to deliver more profitable and higher-priced fully-loaded editions of the Model 3. The car, which starts at $35,000 (£26,097), is seen as crucial to Tesla's profitability at a time when it is battling reports of crashes involving its vehicles, questions over funding and production shortfalls. Musk said the fully-loaded version, excluding its vaunted autopilot feature, retailed at $78,000.
US demands wholesale changes in Iran policies post-nuke deal
The Trump administration on Monday demanded that Iran make wholesale changes in its military and regional policies or face "the strongest sanctions in history," as it sought to turn up heat on Tehran after President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from a landmark nuclear deal. In speech that called Iran out for a wide range of "malign activities" apart from its nuclear program, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for the negotiation of a new deal that would go far beyond the single focus of the 2015 agreement and would have the status of a formal treaty. Unless such a treaty can be reached, Pompeo warned that Iran would face tough sanctions that would leave it "battling to keep its economy alive." But he laid out no strategy for convincing Iran, the other participants in the original deal — Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the European Union — or others to open such a negotiation.
3 Stocks to Hold for the Next 20 Years
These three stocks could be poised to thrive over the ultralong term.
Apple just cut the price of the one cable you can't get anywhere else that charges your iPhone super fast (AAPL)
Apple recently cut the price of the USB-C to Lightning cable from $25 to $19. Normally a cable price cut wouldn't be news, but this is one of the most important cords that Apple makes. On one side, it has a Lightning connector, which is how most people charge their iPhones.