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How Would You Like To Never Go To The Supermarket Again?
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 12:44pm | 259If Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) "AmazonTote" proves worthwhile to customers already using it in Seattle, you may never have to go to the grocer's again. The company is doing internal testing of a free grocery delivery service for its employees in Seattle for the past half year and results are fairly...
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Options Brief: Dollar Tree, Inc. (DLTR)
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 11:49am | 80Shares 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...
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Target Starts Lower. Watch This Level For A Bullseye
Monday, January 24, 2011 - 10:52am | 103Target 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...
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Family Dollar Raises Dividend - Analyst Blog
Monday, January 24, 2011 - 10:31am | 545After 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...
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Family Dollar Raises Dividend - Analyst Blog
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 7:01pm | 545After 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...
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Family Dollar Raises Dividend - Analyst Blog
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 6:28pm | 545After 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...
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Family Dollar Raises Dividend - Analyst Blog
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 6:28pm | 545After 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...
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GameStop Balances Risk-Reward - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 5:01pm | 636GameStop 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...
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GameStop Balances Risk-Reward - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 4:32pm | 636GameStop 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...
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Family Dollar Increases Quarterly Dividend by 16% to $.18
Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 3:00pm | 71Family 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...
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Initial Jobless Claims Fall Sharply - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 12:01pm | 2405Initial 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...
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Initial Jobless Claims Fall Sharply - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 11:38am | 2405Initial 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...
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Citi Reiterates Buy on Target (TGT)
Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 9:55am | 148Citi 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...
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Will Bill Ackman's Borders Trade Work Out? (BGP, BKS)
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 3:54pm | 242Bill Ackman, the portfolio manager of Pershing Square Capital, has been lauded for some of his investments, most notably in General Growth Properties (NYSE: GGP) and Target (NYSE: TGT). One trade that isn't working out so well for the silver-haired investors is Borders Group (NYSE: BGP), the book...
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Dollar Tree Higher On Upgrade (DLTR)
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 2:14pm | 95Analysts 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...