Third quarter winners and losers

There are often segments of retail that do well even as the sector and especially big names like Wal-Mart, Sears and Target flounder. Housing will be a drag on the economy and much of but lower housing prices will help give the Fed room to cut rates which will help the market generally and perhaps some areas of retail. Dana Telsey recently provided some results of her study of which areas of retail are likely to do best when the Fed cuts rates. She also provides some of her stock picks-- see item (green label near top) at http://www.Barrelomoney.com. i posted some comments on her findings in the free Barrel View mailing which went out this morning. Anyone signing the Private Guest Book there and listed an e-mail address will receive the free mailings (it's private and Barrelomoney sends only the mailing and responses to reader questions- we do not collect personal information or anything like that).

Gottschalks has the right merchandise, they need to remove all upper management at district and corporate level. They do not understand what their employees want or need to do the job!