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Expected Sales Growth Drives Upside in Retail Stocks (COST, WMT, TGT, M, JWN, KSS, BBY)

An unexpected gain in October retail sales has boosted prospects for a better-than-forecast holiday retail sales season. Some of the sales gains will come from lower pricing, which can’t always ...
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Top Earnings & Economic Events In The Week Ahead (PCLN, AONE, ATVI, PAAS, TM, CSCO, CSC, GM, GMCR, M, SLW, MCP, JWN, NVDA, DIS)

Earnings season has peaked, but we still have many key earnings reports and economic events coming in the week ahead.  24/7 Wall St. has featured a calendar with events scheduled ...
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A Retail Bankruptcy and October Same-Store Sales (SYMS, COST, TGT, M, JWN, JCP, KSS, LTD, AEO, ZUMZ, BKE, WTSLA)

October is not usually a strong month for retailers because shoppers take a break between the back-to-school buying and the coming holiday season. In October 2010, same-store retail sales rose ...
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Expected Price Gains at Mall Department Stores (M, JWN, KSS, JCP, SKS, DDS, SHLD)

A couple of weeks ago we looked at implied share price gains at several retailers, and today we’ll take a more focused look at mall anchor stores. Three retailers ...
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Expected Upside Gains for Leading Retailers (COST, WMT, TGT, M, JWN, KSS, BBY)

The retail sales growth outlook for the coming holiday season has been cut to around 3%, only half the growth retailers saw in the 2010 holiday season. Of course, last ...
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GAP to Close 200 Stores — Which Retailer Is Next?

Gap (NYSE: GPS) took the coward’s way out. Buried among announcements about its global sales plans, it reported that “the company is committed to rebalancing its specialty and outlet stores ...
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High-End Retail Lined Up for Holiday Sales Boost (TIF, SKS, M, JWN, RL, COH, WMT)

British high-end clothier Burberry PLC reported that sales for its first six months of the year rose 30% on strong demand for its signature trenchcoats and accessories. The company noted ...
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Holiday Retail Sales Growth Forecast — Half Last Year’s Total (TGT, M, JWN, JCP, DDS, LTD, GPS, SSI, ZUMZ, BKE, COST)

Retail sales for the coming holiday season are expected to be about 3% higher than 2010 sales. Not bad, considering that US GDP growth predictions are now below 2%; not ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (DELL, ORCL, JAKK, JWN, YHOO)

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednsesday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Dell, Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL), JAKKS Pacific, ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALKS, AMP, BWA, CSCO, CLB, DD, GTIV, HIG, JASO, JPM, JWN, NSC, ORCL, PFE, STP, TSL, UAL)

These are some of this Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Alkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALKS) Removed from US 1 List ...
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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)

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 Market’s Biggest Selling Fallout Victims (ALU, BAC, LNG, CRU, DHI, F, GM, FFSL, GERN, STEM, IPSU, IRDM, JWN, S, SIRI, VHC, RMBS)

When you have a credit rating downgrade of the U.S. followed by a 300+ point drop in the DJIA and another near-100 point drop in the NASDAQ, it is no ...
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Media Digest (8/4/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Hitachi and Mitsubishi may merge (Reuters) Japan intervened in the yen (Reuters) Spain will offer bonds and the European Central Bank meets to examine option to help the country's debt ...
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Screening Retailers for High Dividends With More Upside Ahead (HD, FL, WMT, SPLS, TGT, SWY, GPS, LOW, JWN, RTH, XRT)

Investors need to consider one thing about investing in retail.  This is quite likely to be the next bastion of dividend growth for investors seeking income to buffer market volatility ...
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Stock Chasing: Over-Bulling in TJX??? (TJX, M, JWN)

The TJX Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TJX) is seeing a boost this Tuesday morning after a long weekend thanks to a bullish report in Barron's.  The financial weekly calls for a gain ...
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