Deserving of Credit, J.C. Penney Gets It

J.C. Penney (NYSE:JCP) deserves more credit, so that's what it got - from the credit markets, that is. Now the question is: Will equity investors follow suit? We believe they will, rewarding the company with a higher share price once the success of the company's turnaround is more clearly visible.  (Dear reader, click here to read more).

Reading and Believing in Barnes & Noble

We visit Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS) at least once a month. It's the only place we can pick up the latest issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the encyclopedic Phil Steele's College Football Preview. For those with wider interests, though, the company is counting on its new tablet courtesy of Samsung (OTC:SSNLF) to increase traffic and revitalize the digital space ahead of Christmas and the planned spin-off of NOOK Media LLC early next year. (Dear reader, click here for more).

Macy's Makes Us Feel So Young

As a member of the most resented generation (i.e., boomers), it's hard enough for us to entertain the thought that citizens born in the '90s (i.e., millennials) have the right to vote, much less the ability to dress themselves. "Get over it," we hear you say. "Woodstock was 45 years ago." O tempus fugit, indeed.

Macy's (NYSE: M), however, is pinning much of its hope for the rest of 2014 on helping millennials do that - dress, not vote, we presume. (Dear reader, click here for more).