This week 24/7 Wall St. is picking several stocks from major sectors that are likely to double off of their lows we have recently seen. Today, let’s discuss the retail sector.   We are also including two food companies that have suffered along with the rest of the retail sector. Today’...

Image credit: The Guardian Green Groups Claim Soft TP is Worse than SUVs Our sister site Planet Green has already explored 9 green toilet paper tips, but the struggle continues. From a purely symbolic standpoint, it's hard to think of a more anti-environmental action than cutting down a tree, pulpin...

TreeHugger has had a long love affair with the bicycle. It's the world's most energy efficient vehicle, and riding them cuts back on gas and carbon emissions, while promoting good health and exercise. Bicycles even appear to be recession proof. With all these things to like about bikes, various desi...

Traders and investors alike look for defensive stocks with certainty of earnings in hard times like these.  Tomorrow we will get earnings from Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG), and the consumer products giant is definitely among those defensive companies.  Its competitor Colgate-Palmoli...

Husbands have long joked that certain segments in their households, such as cosmetics and personal beauty care products, were largely immune from recessions.  Many will still joke about this, but the numbers reported by Estee Lauder Companies Inc.(NYSE: EL) and Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (NASDAQ: RD...

There’s an interesting survey Business Week reports on today about how environmentally-conscious the largest consumer-oriented corporations are. And unfortunately some of our favorite names will probably have to be reconsidered if you really want to support only companies that try to fight glo...

Reuters: Add another economic worry to inflation and deflation: ecoflation, the rising cost of doing business in a world with a changing climate. Ecoflation could hit consumer goods hard in the next five to 10 years, according to a report by World Resources Institute and A.T. Kearney, a global manag...

In hard times, there’s one thing we can’t do without: a side-by-side ATV. Polaris Industries, Inc. (PII)...

In the long term, it’s probably a bigger deal that Apple’s creating the first mobile platform that people I know outside the mobile business actually seem excited about developing things for, in a way people never got excited about Java or XHTML or WAP or BREW (never heard of any of thos...

It seems that with technology-driven products these days the race against obsolescence begins the moment you bring a product home from the store. There’s always something newer, faster, smaller or better just on the horizon. Consumers’ thirst for the latest and greatest gadget has also caused in...