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Casually clothing retailer American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO) is scheduled to release earnings results on June 5.Revenues are expected to come in at $854.88 million and that estimate represents an increase of 3.9% from one year ago. Looking at the weekly chart for American Eagle, the stock has pulled back in recent weeks, but it appears to have a couple of layers of support just below the current price.

In the case of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY) and the Invesco QQQ Trust (Nasdaq: QQQ), they have just had their 10-day moving averages cross bearishly below their 50-day moving averages. Looking at each of the charts, it is the first time since October that these ETFs have experienced a bearish crossover in the moving averages and when it happened last fall, it was an ominous sign.In the case of the QQQ, it was trading around $162.50 when the 10-day moved back above the 50-day and it would eventually rise above $190 before pulling back again.

Luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers (NYSE: TOL) is set to report earnings on May 22 and the stock just got a bullish signal from the Tickeron AI Trend Prediction Engine on May 17.Revenue has increased by an average rate of 19% annually over the last three years and it increased by 16% in the most recent quarter. The company shows a return on equity of 15.4% and a profit margin of 13.1% The weekly chart shows another possible long-term bullish signal and that is the fact that the 13-week moving average just crossed bullishly above the 52-week moving average.

Railroad operator CSX Corp. (NYSE: CSX) has rallied nicely since hitting the December low.Since the rallied started there haven’t been many pullbacks, but rather a couple of sideways moves that allowed the 50-day moving average to catch up and for the stock to move out of the overbought territory. A trend channel has formed to some degree.

The mainstream hype surrounding cryptocurrency has cooled, but reports of its demise appear to have been greatly exaggerated.“I think you’re seeing signs that fundamentals are improving, technicals are improving, and now there’s real activity by, essentially, crypto holders,” Lee told CNBC.

The luxury car maker's stock dropped 20% since the company sold a $1.84 billion convertible bond and almost $900 million of stock on May 2 to raise fresh capital and give it more time to stop losing money. Citi analyst Itay Michaeli, who has a "sell" rating on Tesla, cut his price target to $191 from $238.He pointed to an email Musk sent to employees last week, telling them he would increase cost-cutting, and that the $2.7 billion in recently raised capital would give Tesla just 10 months to break even at the rate it burned cash in the first quarter. "The recent reported internal memo, which seemingly called into question prior guidance, didn't help the risk/reward calculus.

InterDigital Wireless Inc disclosed that it is free to license its 5G network technology to Huawei Technologies Co Ltd despite the threat of a U.S. ban on selling chips and software to the form of the Chinese communications. InterDigital and Qualcomm (QCOM) are the two leading American holders of patents for wireless networking technology, including the 5G networks rolling out this year in China. However, last week President Trump issued a sanction on U.S. firms to sell technology to Chinese counterparts though officials say that some of these restrictions are valid for only 90 days. InterDigital generates revenue by developing wireless technologies and then licenses out its patents.It believes it can still strike the 5G deal with Huawei as export control laws are not applicable to patents, which are public records and therefore not confidential technology. The same is the situation with Qualcomm who too generates revenue by licensing out patents which only means that the

However, the timeline for the said closures is yet to be disclosed. Over the past decade, Ascena’s portfolio is made up of apparel brands through acquisitions including plus-size retailer Lane Bryant and women's apparel brand Ann Taylor.But as stores and shopping have mostly shifted online, Ascena is rethinking its strategies for its physical stores to offset debt load. Till July 2018, same-store sales were down 2%, and the company had a total debt of $1.33 billion to recover during the same period.

These small installations are mostly specialized by companies like Tesla (TSLA), Sunrun (RUN), and Vivint Solar (VSLR) while the bigger ones mostly belong to companies like First Solar (FSLR) heavily financed by utilities and asset owners like NextEra Energy (NEP) Partners and TerraForm Power (TERP). Even though it took nearly 40 years to reach the 2 million installations, analysts believe that the next 2 million will take only four years creating more opportunities for investors. According to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) data, California accounted for 51% of the first one million installations thereby making it the industry hub.For the remaining one million, 43% of the installations are scattered across states like Florida, Texas, and Minnesota. New solar capacity is mostly composed of large-scale projects accounting for 58% of the 10.6 gigawatts of solar power installed for utility-scale projects in 2018.

Home renovation and improvement store Lowe’s has cut its full-year profit forecast after reporting disappointing first-quarter earnings, in part, due to cost increases. “Because of ... the transition of our merchandising team, we literally had no visibility to those cost increases until the inventory that was increased in cost hit the P&L,” Ellison said on a post-earnings call with analysts.  "We are doubling our efforts, making sure we limit the number of surprises that will get us in the future,” he said.  Excluding one-time items, the company earned $1.22 per share in the three months ended May 3, missing analysts’ average estimate of $1.33, according to IBES data from Refinitiv. Overall, net sales rose 2.1% to $17.74 billion, beating expectations of $17.66 billion. 

The United States is at least a month from enacting its proposed tariffs on $300 billion in Chinese imports as it studies the impact on consumers, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday.   

A consumer watchdog group in the U.K. said on Wednesday that Apple has agreed to clearly notify consumers if future iOS software updates slow down or change the performance of an iPhone.

Federal Reserve officials remained firmly committed to a “patient” policy stance at their meeting earlier this month, saying rates likely will remain unchanged well into the future.

Ireland’s data privacy watchdog on Wednesday announced the launch of an inquiry into Google over the tech giant’s collection of data when it comes to online advertising.

The retail company also lowered its fiscal-year guidance, while admitting its missteps with customers. The company's adjusted earnings for the quarter came in at 23 cents per share, falling heavily behind analysts’ expectations of 42 cents. Sales of $3.4 billion also fell short of analysts’ estimates of $3.6 billion.They were also lower than the year-ago quarter’s $3.6 billion. Co-president Erik Nordstrom said that the company had “executional misses” with its customers, and that it is taking steps to turn things around and improve customer services.  For the full fiscal year, Nordstrom revised down its earnings forecast to a range of $3.25 to $3.65 a share, compared to prior guidance of $3.65 to $3.90.

The retail behemoth also reiterated its guidance for the full-year. Adjusted earnings for the three months ending in April came in at $1.53 per share, which represents a +15% surge from the same period last year and is higher than analysts’ estimates of $1.43 per share (based on Refinitiv data). Total revenue increased just under +1% to $17.63 billion, exceeding analysts' estimates of $17.52 billion.Online sales now account for 7.1% of Target’s retail sales, up from 5.2% a year ago. For full fiscal year 2020 (ending in early January), Target expects low to mid-single digit growth for same store sales.

Penney (NYSE: JCP) recently posted its third straight quarter of negative comparable-store sales, dousing hopes that CEO Jill Soltau, who took the top job last October, would halt the retailer's downward spiral.J.C. Penney's comps declined 5.5% in the first quarter as its revenue fell 5.6% to $2.44 billion.

Target’s CEO thinks the retail industry is shaking out to show clear winners and losers. 

Nordstrom, Inc. JWN 7.82% shares are getting pummeled, passing a 52-week low in the after-hours session after reporting a disappointing first quarter.