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Shares of Dollar Tree, Inc. (NASDAQ: DLTR) are lower on the session by 0.38%, trading at $52.15. Overall put volume is now running at 3.54x the daily average, with 46% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 2,387 contracts have traded on the session so far. Dollar Tree, Inc. is an...

Target Corp.(NYSE: TGT) is starting the morning by trading lower on the session. The stock is lower by 0.69 cents to $55.05 a share. Target Corp. stock has been under pressure since the start of the first trading day of 2011. Often most retail stocks will struggle in the month of January and that...

After The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. (MHP), which recently raised its quarterly dividend by 6.4% to 25 cents from 23.5 cents, and Tiffany & Company (TIF), which recently announced a share repurchase program of $400 million, it is now the turn of Family Dollar Stores Inc. (FDO) to utilize its...

After The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. (MHP), which recently raised its quarterly dividend by 6.4% to 25 cents from 23.5 cents, and Tiffany & Company (TIF), which recently announced a share repurchase program of $400 million, it is now the turn of Family Dollar Stores Inc. (FDO) to utilize its...

After The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. (MHP), which recently raised its quarterly dividend by 6.4% to 25 cents from 23.5 cents, and Tiffany & Company (TIF), which recently announced a share repurchase program of $400 million, it is now the turn of Family Dollar Stores Inc. (FDO) to utilize its...

After The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. (MHP), which recently raised its quarterly dividend by 6.4% to 25 cents from 23.5 cents, and Tiffany & Company (TIF), which recently announced a share repurchase program of $400 million, it is now the turn of Family Dollar Stores Inc. (FDO) to utilize its...

GameStop Corporation (GME) is well positioned to take advantage of the growing market for video game products and PC entertainment software.The company's strategy is to grow through store expansions in favorable localities, by providing the largest title collection of video games, and by...

GameStop Corporation (GME) is well positioned to take advantage of the growing market for video game products and PC entertainment software.The company's strategy is to grow through store expansions in favorable localities, by providing the largest title collection of video games, and by...

Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (NYSE: FDO) announced that the Company's Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend on the Company's common stock of $0.18 per share, payable Friday, April 15, 2011, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. The...

Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance fell by 37,000 last week to 404,000 (last week was also revised down by 4,000, so one could see it as a 41,000 decline). This was much better than the expected level of 425,000. This is a welcome turnaround, and suggests that the decline we saw at the end...

Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance fell by 37,000 last week to 404,000 (last week was also revised down by 4,000, so one could see it as a 41,000 decline). This was much better than the expected level of 425,000. This is a welcome turnaround, and suggests that the decline we saw at the end...

Citi is out with a report on Target (NYSE: TGT), reiterating its Buy rating on TGT after the announcement of Tony Fisher as the President of Target Canada. In a note to clients, Citi writes, "TGT has promoted Tony Fisher to President of Target Canada, reporting to Michael Francis, Chief Marketing...

Analysts at Morgan Stanley upgraded shares of Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR) this morning to from Hold to Overweight, and the stock is getting a nice bounce in Wednesday's trading session. Despite broad market weakness, shares of Dollar Tree are 2.80% higher at $51.75. Dollar Tree has risen 56% in the...