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June 9, 2010
Retail Sales | www.personalizedexperts.com
How to survive the retail market in 2010 and beyond. Market changes are inevitable, fluctuations in sales and earnings will continue. Democrat spending out of control and will remain that way until November elections. Beware of false positives as they may lead you to things are improving. Though minimal improvement is upon us we are not out of the woods.
Retail Sales headed deeper South in Q1
January 12, 2009
U.S. Retail Sales Fell 0.8% in Week After Christmas | www.bloomberg.com
Retail sales will continue to struggle as consumer confidence continues strong decline. Q1 may show weekest sales yet before slightly turning around in 2nd half of the year. All signs head to lower confidence, but as soon as Obama takes office the landscape might change slightly. I believe just his enthusiam will bring back a bit of confidence which may help perception in the market. The BIGGEST issue will be are we too little to late for some retailers to survive. GREED! and LARGE overhead will cause some retailers to fall off the hill sooner than expected. Cutbacks have not worked and baloon payments are coming do... who will survive? Many retailers especially descretionary income retailers will have to tighten the belt even further and make dramatic changes in order to survive this downturn. Retail is here to stay we all know that, these adjustments will help you decide where to put your money in the future.
PRIVATE EQUITY FEELING THE PINCH
April 15, 2008
Home Retailer Expected to File For Bankruptcy | online.wsj.com
Private Equity Firms; the squeeze is just beginning. Overpaying, loading companies with debt with little financial risk investment from private equity has been the norm for almost 10 years. TIMES R CHANGING. Banks have begun to reel back financing and companies cannot afford the heavy debt load. Senior Executives (Baby Boomers) are retiring and CEO's are hard to find.
Circuit City one foot into the grave yard - Can they survive????
April 10, 2008
Circuit City Critic Stirs It Up | online.wsj.com
That fact that this is Circuit City is the article headline only leads way to retail 2008. Can we take another round of mergers and acquisitions. Does the independant survive? How does Circuit City stabalize and survive during an economic crisis. Is it over for Circuit City? Soft numbers for the rest of 2008 and into spring of 2009.
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