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America’s Biggest Store Chains With No Online Shoppers

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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Reality Check: Walgreen’s Nice! Challenges Grocery & Convenience Stores (WAG, CVS, RAD, KR, SWY, WMT, TGT)

Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) is just a drugstore... Right?  Maybe not any longer in entirety.  As of last year, the company operated 7,650 drugstores and it owned 37 strip shopping ...
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Gabelli’s Major Quarterly Changes to Focus Five Stock Pick List (ARG, CF, LNCE, TE, YHOO, ASCMA, CCE, CVS, NAV)

August 1 might not sound like the start of a quarter to most, but this is that date of a key report from a unique brokerage and advisory firm.  Today ...
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Top Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (CIM, HUM, ADM, COH, DRYS, DUK, OPEN, PFE, SIRI, AWK, CLX, CMCSA, DNDN, GRMN, WFR, TSLA, ZIP, AIG, CVS, DF, FSLR, KFT, LNKD, PCLN, LUV, PG)

We have another very busy earnings week ahead for the second quarter reporting season.  Some are DJIA components and some are sector-movers or market-movers.  We are tracking earnings and giving ...
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Medco-Express Deal Makes PBM Winners & Losers; Antitrust Issues Arise (MHS, ESRX, WAG, CVS, CHSI)

MedcoHealth Solutions Inc. (NYSE: MHS) is a company we have somewhat expected might succumb to consolidation in the arena surrounding healthcare.  Express Scripts Inc. (NASDAQ: ESRX) is offering some $29 ...
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Why The Dow Will Plunge To 7,000

One theory of economics says that any market can return to a point where it has been in the past. The Great Recession was, by some measures as bad as ...
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The Real Rite Aid Question After Earnings: Can It Survive? (RAD, WAG, CVS, WMT)

Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) is actually trading up on a day that the broader market is down considerably.  That always makes being critical sound a bit misplaced, but we ...
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The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: Companies With The Worst Press (6/9)

Nokia was badly hurt by poor earnings and rumors of a takeovers. CVS suffered from a report by Fox Business the organized crime has hurt retail margins. EMC division RSA ...
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Contract Shell Game: Switching Providers (MHS, CVS)

It is a tale you have heard before... driving down prices or capping hikes by bidding contract renewals out in what feels like a Dutch auction.  Today's daily hat trick comes ...
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Whale Watching Stocks: Paulson, Soros, Berkowitz, Icahn, Einhorn (GLD, HPQ, RIG, BAC, JPM, WFC, C, AAPL, BBY, WMT, MA, AIG, BAM, CSCO, SHLD, GGP, GE, DYN, AMGN, SUG, CVS, GM)

We have already seen (some) of the position changes of Warren Buffett, but the old guy wouldn't share many 'confidential positions' so we are whale watching in other ponds.  We wanted ...
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Media Digest (5/6/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

The drop in commodities may help rally the dollar (Reuters) The moderating growth of jobs claims is seen as a threat to the recovery (Reuters) A sharp drop in commodities ...
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Top Earnings Previews For Thursday (ARG, CTL, CVS, DMD, DTV, EP, KFT, PMI, PCLN, V)

Earnings season may have peaked but we still have some key sector moving stocks due to report earnings on Thursday morning.  We have offered previews and some basic color on ...
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Gabelli Changes All ‘Focus Five’ Stock Picks (ASCMA, CCE, CVS, NAV, YHOO, BLK, ITT, MSG, NFG, NIHD)

Gabelli & Co. is rather well-known for looking at companies for their value in special situations and in possible mergers, to the point that Mario Gabelli is known as "Dr. Love" ...
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M&A Daily: Catalyst Becomes a Major PBM Player (CHSI, WAG, CVS, ESRX, MHS, RAD)

Catalyst Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHSI) is not as well known in American healthcare as it is about to be.  The pharmacy benefit management company has just signed a pact ...
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The Big American Retailers With The Worst Service

Customer satisfaction in the retail and online e-commerce industries is getting worse. There is no single reason for this, but it is likely that the recent economic downturn is one ...
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