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As next week offers a light earnings calendar, investors likely will focus their attention on the U.S. Federal Reserve's meeting, housing data reports and Hostess Brands Inc.'s bankruptcy proceedings.Retailer Quarterly Results on TapRetailers will continue to dominate the earnings cycle next week, with about a dozen major retail companies slated to report.Wet Seal Inc. (WTSL), which reports Thursday, had forecast its fiscal fourth-quarter loss would be at or near the low end of its guidance, as the struggling women's apparel retailer posted another substantial drop in same-store sales. The company, which operates its namesake and Arden B stores, has undergone a substantial leadership transition after hedge-fund manager Clinton Group Inc., a major shareholder, agreed to drop its proxy fight with the company in exchange for naming four board seats.Since then, Wet Seal has named a new chief executive, lost its chief operating officer to resignation and unveiled a series of cost-cutting ef...
Best Buy Co. shares rose 1.2% Wednesday. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, citing unidentified sources, said the electronics retailer has become the target for a private...
Fashion label Guess Inc . shares slumped 12% on Thursday after the company gave disappointing first-quarter and full-year profit forecasts. Teen-retailer Rue21 Inc.'...
Shares of Guess? Inc . (NYSE:GES) plunged more than 11% in after-hours trading after the company reported mixed fiscal fourth-quarter results, and gave meek first-qu...
Guess Inc . said late Wednesday its fourth-quarter profit attributable to Guess fell to $95.9 million, or $1.05 a share, from $103.3 million, or $1.11 a share, in th...
Guess Inc . late Wednesday reported its third-quarter profit attributable to Guess fell to $66.3 million, or 71 cents a share, from $69.1 million, or 75 cents a shar...
Guess, known for its jeans, said on Monday that Nancy Shachtman, who first joined Guess in 1986, will oversee its North American stores as well as its wholesale oper...
Earnings, housing data and Thanksgiving are on investors’ plates next week. The markets are closed Thursday and open for a half-day Friday.Figures on existing- and n...
Guess Inc. (GES) posted second-quarter earnings that topped the Street’s view and gave third-quarter guidance in-line with expectations, but the company merely reaff...
Earnings reports from retailers next week are likely to show consumers remain skeptical that an economic turnaround is imminent.As if to emphasize that point, econom...
Retail stocks fell on Thursday after retailers missed their November same-store sales and others including Tiffany & Co. , Aeropostale Inc. and Guess Inc. offered di...
Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp. surged 16% on Friday after the sporting goods retailer's third-quarter results topped Wall Street expectations. Designer label Ralph Laure...
Guess? Inc. shares fell 4% on Friday after Morgan Stanley started the coverage of the apparel stock with an underweight rating. Vera Bradley Inc. was up 1% in a lowe...
U.S. stock advances are expected to run into resistance next week, following the longest winning streak since January 2011, as a lack of fresh incentives and opacity...
Fossil Inc. shares surged 29% on Tuesday after the watch and accessories maker reported a better-than-expected second-quarter profit. The results also relieved worri...
Apparel retailer Guess Inc. (GES) was ordered by a U.S. judge Monday to pay Gucci $4.66 million in a patent infringement case and awarded the Italian luxury goods co...
Jewelry and accessory maker Fossil Inc. (FOSL) said the weak European economy has hurt sales, a revelation that removed more than a third of the company's market val...
