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The Motley Fool
November 28, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
A $78,100 Christmas Do you have $78,100 on hand? That's what it would cost this year to purchase the "12 days of Christmas" gifts mentioned in the popular carol. More importantly, do you really need to go crazy with gifts like this?   |
The Motley Fool
December 29, 2003
Bill Mann |
Christmas Price Index Rises 16% PNC Bank's annual survey shows rising costs all around, especially in swans. |
The Motley Fool
December 3, 2004
Bill Mann |
Price of 5 Golden Rings Plummets PNC Advisors just released their 20th annual Christmas Price Index, which seeks to track inflation by replicating the basket of goods and services that the true love buys in the classic song "The 12 Days of Christmas." Here's this year's figures. |
The Motley Fool
December 24, 2007
Mary Dalrymple |
The 12 Days of Foolishness A fun look at what investors may want for Christmas instead of a house full of pipers, drummers and a partridge in a pear tree. |
InternetNews
December 23, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Web Retailers Bet on Eleventh-Hour Deals The waning hours of the holiday shopping crush caps off a season of surging sales. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2009
Jim Royal |
Dreaming of a Black Christmas? Don't. What happened in the turkey-induced afterglow of all those Black Friday sales? |
The Motley Fool
November 15, 2007
Kristin Graham |
Gift Cards: A Holiday Grinch? The increasing popularity of holiday gift card giving may make consumers happy, but not necessarily retailers. |
InternetNews
December 27, 2004
Erin Joyce |
eTailers, Tech Stocks Lead in Post Holiday Trading Amazon.com's surge in online shoppers this season helped push it into the top performer category... The Nasdaq exchange slipped 6.40 to close at 2154.22... Apple's iPod stellar sales did little for its stock price Monday... etc. |
The Motley Fool
October 25, 2006
Mary Dalrymple |
Christmas Comes Early Keeping an eye on the bottom line when you venture out for holiday shopping might help keep each purchase in perspective. In the meantime, resist the urge to start celebrating Christmas before Halloween. |
The Motley Fool
January 2, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Gift Cards: $24.81 Billion and Counting Gift cards could mean strength for retailers in the first quarter. |
InternetNews
December 22, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Online Shoppers Have Fewer Last Minutes With fewer days from Thanksgiving to Christmas, shortened holiday season sees total spending down from last year despite last-minute shopping surge. |
InternetNews
December 27, 2004
Tim Gray |
Amazon Found Joy This Holiday Season Amazon boasts its most lucrative shopping season ever... Online sales up 28 percent over last year... SIRIUS and XML satellite radio both reach year-end targets... |
The Motley Fool
January 6, 2010
Rich Duprey |
Retailers Ready for the Gift Card Redo Slack sales mean retailers are hoping gift cards bring holiday joy in January. |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Fool Looks Back Wall Street happenings last week: Christmas sales way down... Good and bad news for Sirius XM... Microsoft extends the life of Windows XP... Apple tops list of most influential companies... |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Wal-Mart's Grinchy Glitch To the dismay of after Christmas shoppers, Wal-Mart has problems processing gift cards because of a glitch in a third-party verifier's system. |
The Motley Fool
December 29, 2003
Alyce Lomax |
An XM Xmas? Consumers tuned into satellite radio during the holidays. The Washington Post reported Saturday that satellite radio was a hot item on people's holiday gift lists this year. |
AskMen.com
Rashmikant Patel |
This Christmas, Stay Out Of Debt Tips for Christmas shopping to avoid spending too much. |
InternetNews
December 31, 2007
Kenneth Corbin |
Holiday E-Commerce Holds Strong Through Home Stretch With just a handful of days left to measure, holiday e-commerce sales are looking good, even with growth rates down from last year. |
| The Family Room |
Start Your Christmas Shopping Right Away & Reduce Stress! I have found that by having 2/3 of my Christmas Shopping Done before December 10th, I can enjoy the holiday more. Here are a few ways that shopping ahead of schedule helps... |
The Motley Fool
December 19, 2006
Mary Dalrymple |
Play Your Gift Cards Wisely Last-minute tips for buying and using gift cards. |
InternetNews
December 27, 2005
Erin Joyce |
Stocks Tumble After Solid Start Investors were ho-hum about holiday sales and nervous about the spreads on treasury notes... Amazon shares lost...Retailers and online retailers were reporting fair sales results from early data following the Christmas selling season...etc. |
InternetNews
December 20, 2010 |
Holiday Season Ends With a Bang for E-tailers Last big push for holiday shopping nets Internet retailers huge sales, with four days last week topping $900 million as consumers race to get orders in with free shipping. |
The Motley Fool
July 23, 2009
Rich Duprey |
How to Work Santa Silly for Fun and Profit Year-round Christmas sales spell trouble for Sears. |
The Motley Fool
September 4, 2007
Mary Dalrymple |
Start Your Christmas Shopping Now! Retailers promote a new Labor Day kickoff for Christmas shopping. What will it mean to the average consumer? |
InternetNews
November 1, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Good Tidings For Online Retailers in 2005 Online shopping is expected to increase this holiday season. |
The Family Room
November 2000
Mia Cronan |
Let the Holidays Loom Large, But Not Heavy An article about planning ahead for the Christmas holiday and saving money in the process... |
The Motley Fool
January 4, 2012
Anand Chokkavelu |
Why the Dow Continued Winning in 2012 Breaking down the market. |
| The Family Room |
Scrooge's Christmas List Scrooge certainly is the symbol of someone who doesn't like Christmas. But, if you think about it, many of us harbor Scrooge-like feelings today. We really don't want to participate in yet one more gift exchange. We're out of both time and money... |
InternetNews
December 31, 2003 |
Early Online Shopping Numbers Show Big Gains The 2003 holiday shopping season proved to be a boon for online retailers with shoppers spending $13 billion just between Nov. 1 and Dec. 12 alone. |
Registered Rep.
September 2, 2011
Diana Britton |
The Risk On/Risk Off Behind Gold For months and even years, analysts have debated and speculated on whether gold is in a bubble and whether that bubble could be close to bursting. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
A Tiny Victory for Big Retail The holidays are over, but retail's problems may have just begun. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Retailers Drop a Black Friday Bomb Early results suggest consumers are slow to spend. |
BusinessWeek
November 8, 2004
Louise Lee |
Santa's Feeling Strapped This Year Consumer confidence fell in October for the third month in a row. Income growth is sluggish. Energy prices are soaring. And retailers across the country are bracing for what could be a cheerless season. |
CRM
December 20, 2013
Scott Hays |
The Nightmare After Christmas Use post holiday returns as a customer service opportunity. While the holiday shopping season brings more chances to engage customers, it also brings more chances to lose them. |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
If I Had an Ounce of Gold Gold futures for April delivery passed the $1,000 milestone this morning. Take a look at how much that $1,000 value could fetch right now in equities on the open market. |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Fool Poll: How Much Will You Spend This Holiday Season? Should retailers be smiling or frowning? |
InternetNews
December 30, 2010 |
Snowstorm Helps Ecommerce End Holidays Strong Web metrics firm comScore reports that online retailers posted record sales this year, offering cautious hope that the ecommerce sector is well on the road to recovery. |
The Family Room
Monica Resinger |
Potted Christmas Trees - Is It Worth It? Each holiday season, I think about getting a live, potted Christmas tree. I keep thinking that it would sure save a lot of money because we should be able to use it as a Christmas tree for a few years -- as long as I can keep it alive... |
The Motley Fool
October 23, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Christmas Bells Are Ringing Start early to keep holiday spending from putting you in the hole. |
| The Family Room |
The Non-Religious View of Christmas: Or How to Have Fun This Holiday Season You don't have to be religious to enjoy the holidays... |
InternetNews
December 30, 2003
Erin Joyce |
Micromuse Down, Symbol up on Accounting Probes The Nasdaq index stayed in above-2000 territory Tuesday on a subdued day of trading as the end-of-year New Year's holiday approached. |
The Family Room
Cheryl Gochnauer |
Ho, ho, ho -- Merry Shopping! This Christmas, I'm determined to give gifts that will be remembered past New Year's. On the limited budget of a stay-at-home mom, however, discovering special presents becomes a bit challenging... |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Sirius XM Scores a 100 Sirius XM gets added to the Nasdaq 100. |
| The Family Room |
History of the Christmas Celebration While Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, many of the symbols and rituals associated with the holiday go back far beyond this important event... |
| The Family Room |
A Mother's Guide to a Stress-Less Holiday Season Two years ago, I was so calm and relaxed, you'd never have guessed it was Christmas... |
The Motley Fool
December 30, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Santa Touched Apple Christmas sales indicate maybe we were wrong to not take Apple seriously when it pitched the Touch as a gaming platform. |
InternetNews
December 20, 2007
Kenneth Corbin |
Weekend Sales Help E-tailers Bounce Back After a midweek slump, e-commerce sales picked up again over the weekend. But with only one week to go, the jury's still out for the overall season. |
BusinessWeek
January 10, 2005
Louise Lee |
What's Roiling The Selling Season Retailers' tactics, like pushing gift cards, are changing the business for good. |
| The Family Room |
Enjoy the Holidays with a Live Christmas Tree That Lasts! Here are some steps for selecting and caring for your live Christmas tree that will lengthen your enjoyment this Christmas... |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2009
Adrian Rush |
How Bearish Will the Gold Bugs Get? One analyst sees the metal hitting $8,000. Is it a good way to protect your wealth? |
