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Outerwall stock moved higher after putting itself on the block and doubling its dividend. It will be hard to justify those gains.

Apple is slated to hold a product event at its Cupertino, California, headquarters on Monday.

Research links

• Good luck trying to time major market premia. (etf.com)
• Is benchmarking to blame for the existence of the low-vol and momentum anomalies?

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With the bankruptcy risk very real, investors are better off looking elsewhere right now.

Williams-Sonoma is the latest in a long chain this late winter to bring a disappointing quarterly earnings report to their investors, though the company found a glimmer of hope in the digital department.

Much of the disappointment in the Q4 reports, according to reporting in The Wall Street Journal, was generated by the metric that combines same-store sales and eCommerce sales within the Pottery Barn brand.

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While many of the physical world’s established retailers are feeling a pain with a name — and the name is Amazon — one seems to be almost magically able to avoid the sucking pull of eCommerce’s gravity.

But while stores from Macy’s to Walmart and from Saks to Sears have been feeling the bite of Amazon and its increasingly popular Prime shipping program, Dollar General has quietly been plugging along and outperforming almost everyone else in the market.

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Macy’s will be hiring a specialist to advise the company on how to deal with its real estate portfolio, particularly in negotiations with developers. The move comes as the department store chain faces pressure from investors amid mounting losses.

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