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MarketWatch First Take: AnnTaylor shopper hooked on discounts

Market Watch (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

The AnnTaylor shopper is addicted to low prices. And that could be a problem.

MarketWatch First Take: Lingering risk at UBS lingers over equity offering

Market Watch (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

With its new management and approach to risk, UBS AG seems poised to shake its crown as Europe’s biggest sucker in the U.S. mortgage securities debacle. Unfortunately for investors, the transformation isn't happening this week.

MarketWatch First Take: Talbots makes progress, but challenges loom

Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday

Finally, something seems to be going right at Talbots.

MarketWatch First Take: Stiglitz, Blanchflower's call to pass the inflation buck

Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- "Defeatist" may be a word to describe Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Bank of England interest-rating setting committee member David Blanchflower. "Right" may be another.

Long-term speculative buys in financial services - MarketWatch

Financial Services (Free subscription) | yesterday

Long-term speculative buys in financial servicesMarketWatch - 1 hour agoBy MarketWatch BOSTON (MarketWatch) — Gregg Brewer, executive director of research for Value Line, says some troubled financial-services companies are …

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MarketWatch First Take: Goodwill between banks and LBO firms exaggerated

Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday

The bond market and loan market for leveraged buyouts are two different worlds, but they revolve around the same sun: the credit markets. So who's right? The balking banks or the bustling bond markets?

MarketWatch First Take: Passengers now get to pay airlines to have their bags lost

Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday

Once upon a time airline cutbacks meant switching from tiny bags filled with 5 peanuts to tiny bags filled with 5 sawdust pretzels. Now, things are getting bad enough that passengers are going to have to pay for the right to have their luggage lost.

MarketWatch First Take: Time Warner's Bewkes takes a step to boost stock

Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday

Jeff Bewkes, the president and chief executive of Time Warner Inc., is an impatient leader. But the media giant's shareholders can match Bewkes grimace for grimace as they see the media giant's stock stuck in mud.

MarketWatch First Take: H-P's strong quarter includes slowing in PCs, servers

Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday

Hewlett-Packard's strong fiscal second quarter appears to reveal some sluggishness in the economy, but company executives emphasize that the United States was “spotty,” as opposed to suffering from any kind of sharper downtown.

MarketWatch First Take: Main Street hammers Home Depot

Market Watch (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008

The reason Home Depot's shares are getting hammered despite beating analysts' first-quarter earnings estimates is found on Main Street, not Wall Street.

MarketWatch First Take: Target is on the outs with tense consumers

Market Watch (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008

In a way, Target is a victim of its own success. It made its name selling discretionary merchandise, which is higher margin than basics like groceries, and now those "extras" are out of fashion and the retailer isn't seen as a go-to place for bargains.

MarketWatch First Take: MF Global another casualty of expectations

Market Watch (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008

When it first appeared as a public company last year, MF Global Ltd. seemed like a way for investors to catch a ride with a new breed of trader setting Wall Street on fire. Now, it just seems like another run-of-the-mill financial firm desperate for a cash infusion.

MarketWatch First Take: BAE executives get a warm reception in America

Market Watch (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008

It must have been more fun to sell guns in the old days.

MarketWatch First Take: Lowe's results reflect shaky jobs and expensive food

Market Watch (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008

If you needed another sign that things aren't getting better – and it's not just in real-estate -- look to results from Lowe’s Cos.

MarketWatch First Take: Dimon's personnel appeal

Market Watch (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s acquisition of Bear Stearns Cos. just keeps getting more bizarre. Now, Chief Executive Jamie Dimon is reportedly making personal appeals to competitors and clients to find jobs for Bear Stearns employees who would otherwise lose their jobs.