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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (CVX, CMG, COST, DE, XOM, DFS, LEAP, NWS.A, NEM, ORCL, RL, PLCM, PCG, RYAAY, SNE, WAG)

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 8:23 am

These are some of this Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan. ...
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Do Costco’s Earnings Spell Trouble? (COST, WMT, TGT, BBY, DG)

Posted: October 5, 2011 at 8:53 am

Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST) reported its fiscal fourth-quarter and full fiscal year earnings before markets opened this morning. The headline numbers look pretty good, but the fine print might ...
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Retail Round-Up: Back-to-School Creates Winners & Losers (COST, TGT, M,SKS, JWN, JCP, KSS, GPS, WTSLA, BKE, ZUMZ, XRT, RTH)

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 10:51 am

Retail sales in August put up solid gains that were slowed somewhat by the effects of Hurricane Irene along the eastern seaboard. Among the stores reporting sales numbers today are ...
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The Most Innovative CEOs In America

Posted: August 26, 2011 at 4:22 pm

Steve Jobs’s transition from CEO of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to chairman has caused a great deal of ink to be spilt on the departure of other famous CEOs, such as ...
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America’s Biggest Store Chains With No Online Shoppers

Posted: August 26, 2011 at 6:24 am

Online sales success has become critical to major retailers. All evidence shows that e-commerce continues to grow at double-digit annual rates while in-store sales in the U.S. have barely grown ...
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Lowe’s Joins Big Box Buyback Parade (LOW, HD, WMT, TGT, COST, BBY, AAPL)

Posted: August 22, 2011 at 9:45 am

Shares in home improvement store Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) were trading higher by around 3% in the pre-market this morning on news that the company will initiate a $5 ...
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Walmart Keeps Huge Online Advantage

Posted: August 22, 2011 at 6:30 am

Walmart's (NYSE: WMT) domestic sales may have stumbled, but its online presence is still dominant. July Comscore figures show that Walmart's sites had 38.7 million unique visitors. That is nowhere ...
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JC Penney: Ackman’s Mistake

Posted: August 21, 2011 at 8:24 pm

William Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management has dumped more money into J.C. Penney. It is a mistake, unless he has some undisclosed plan to mine assets which are not obvious ...
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Target’s Earnings Secret: Wealthier Customers (TGT, WMT, COST, HD, LOW, XRT, VCR)

Posted: August 17, 2011 at 8:53 am

Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) reported earnings this morning and the second quarter results were solid if not spectacular. Target posted EPS of $1.03 vs. expectations of $0.97. Net profit rose ...
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Can The Wal-Mart Family Afford Its CEO Anymore?

Posted: August 16, 2011 at 7:22 am

Sam Walton left his children his share of the world's largest retailer--Walmart (NYSE: WMT). The family still has the control block--1.68 billion shares or over 48% of outstanding. S Robson ...
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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings, A to L (BRK-B, BRK-A, AXP, BK, KO, CDCO, COP, COST, DG, XOM, GCI, GE, GSK, JNJ, KFT, LZ)

Posted: August 15, 2011 at 4:25 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of June 30, 2011. These public stock holdings have been broken ...
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Can Wal-Mart Really Take On Amazon? (WMT, AMZN, TGT, COST, BBY)

Posted: August 15, 2011 at 10:34 am

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has continued to be the most dominating brick and mortar force in retail, even if it is far from the most attractive and even if ...
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Wal-Mart Took a Shot at BJ’s, Missed (WMT, BJ, COST)

Posted: August 8, 2011 at 8:29 am

When your business hasn't shown much sign of growth for several years running, maybe it's time to change strategy. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has been trying to grow ...
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High Unemployment Could Provide a Lift for Some Stocks (V, MA, DFS, AXP, MCD, YUM, WEN, COST, DG, WMT)

Posted: August 5, 2011 at 9:23 am

Many economists don't believe that the US debt ceiling is the biggest problem the country faces. In their view the most compelling issue is unemployment, currently at 9.1% and, given ...
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Costco Wholesale: Consumers Get Cheap

Posted: August 4, 2011 at 6:31 am

Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) is the first retailer to report results each month. Its July numbers were particularly strong. Sales for the four weeks of July were higher by 10%. ...
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