Dying Sears Is About to Reward Long-Suffering Shareholders With This Major Surprise

Department store chain Sears Holding Corp. (SHLD) has been Wall Street's punching bag in 2017, the manifestation of the bricks-and-mortar retail rout that's been taking place as e-tailers like Amazon.com (AMZN) replace the shopping mall for consumers. No doubt about it, Sears has been an awful stock to own in recent years - in the past five years, Sears has lost about 83% of its market value, plunging at the same time that the S&P 500 was undertaking a massive multiyear rally. 50 Reasons Dying Sears Had No Choice But to Strike a Deal With the Ruthless Amazon Sears Is Being Pummeled by Amazon and Walmart in This Key Business It Once Dominated But long-suffering shareholders could be in store for

Jim Cramer Reveals 10 Stocks That Have Been Hammered Basically for No Good Reason

Here are some top thoughts from TheStreet's founder and Action Alerts PLUS portfolio manager Jim Cramer.  These 10 Stocks Are Survivors It played out as we said. We shook out the weak hands on Day One of the selloff, people gravitated to safer stocks on day two while other stocks still got hammered, and then yesterday, day three, we had the final regurgitation of the hottest stocks and today we get a calm and quiet rally. Of course, during the decline the bears came out of the woodwork to explain why they were so right to hate the market and you are a loser if you own stocks. We had the requisite old, graybeard hedge fund managers trash the market with their monthly letters. We had stentorian

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American workers are missing out on a big payday, and here’s the main reason why

Low unemployment, near-record job openings and a flush of new hiring haven’t delivered bigger paychecks for American workers. But there’s one thing that could. Higher productivity. Or in plain English: employees making more goods and services in the same amount of time. When workers do more each hour, companies can sell more stuff. Rising sales, in turn, lead to greater profits. And that means firms can give workers higher pay since they are more valuable. The problem is, productivity has been feeble for quite some time. It’s risen less than 1% annually since 2011, less than half its historic average. Nor is there any reason to expect a rebound anytime soon. The government on Wednesday is likely