GLG News by Retail Brokerage Experts (Florida)

Interesting article, but no new ground is being plowed here.

Eddie Lampert has proven he can squeeze profits out of SHLD. Now the marketplace is waiting to see if he can build the business So far all he has done is trim costs and bought investment securities while sales and store appearances decline. He has built a cash hoard of almost $4 billion which he has...

I am more optimistic about the economy and the outlook for commercial real estate than the tone of this article suggests.

This is the first article I have seen in the public media that recognizes what SHLD has become.  It lists several well thought out reasons for their conclusions but the young author has overlooked a major item of concern that I have been writing about for the past year. Conventional wisdom...

SHLD comp stores down 4.9% but 4Q profit up 27%. So far nothing Mr. Lampert has tried is helping to improve sales and some major investors are again wondering why he has not started selling some of his supposed valuable store properties.In a long and rambling annual letter released in connection...

This is a well-done article that includes interviews with two premier sources of real estate market information – PPR and Torto Wheaton. The topic is important given the massive amount of capital seeking to get invested in commercial real estate. Investors are paying high prices in hopes of raising...

This is a contrarian view of the Chicago office market. Real estate investors should consider leasing market dynamics and longer term economic prospects when selecting a location to park their capital.

This latest bid by Simon and the markets reaction is, in my strong opinion, comparable in many ways to the "feeding frenzy" that characterized the tulip bulb mania of 1635.The only possible explanation for this inflated bid (as well as the other likely even more inflated bids to follow) is...

A so called "activist investor" owning less than .06% of Home Depot's stock announces that it knows more than all the people running Home Depot about how best to run Home Depot.Mr. Whitworth, principal of Relational Investors, a manager of a 6.5 billion fund, further suggests that he should have a seat...

Two very important but unspoken implications of this article are that Sears cannot find a way to make money in their newest and most prominent store in their own home town and that they have not yet found a way to keep up with other department stores in generating on line business.These two factors...