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SPX Stuck with 1245 Resistance in Place 12-17-2010
Friday, December 17, 2010 - 6:54pm | 747Cusick's Corner The market stayed in this consolidative grind going into the After Hours. It was a fair and orderly Quad Witching, leaving us all with a lot of decisions to make over the weekend and into the holiday week. Right now the market is clearly stuck with overhead resistance in place, SPX...
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Regency Acquires Shopping Center - Analyst Blog
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 5:33pm | 524Regency Centers Corp. (REG), a leading operator and developer of grocery-anchored and community shopping centers across the U.S., has recently acquired Willow Festival, a 405,227 square foot neighborhood shopping center in the Chicago metro area. The company purchased the property for $64 million...
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Regency Acquires Shopping Center - Analyst Blog
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 4:48pm | 524Regency Centers Corp. (REG), a leading operator and developer of grocery-anchored and community shopping centers across the U.S., has recently acquired Willow Festival, a 405,227 square foot neighborhood shopping center in the Chicago metro area. The company purchased the property for $64 million...
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Wells Fargo Completes Conversion of Lowe's Employee Retirement Plans
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 11:30am | 60Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) announced today it has successfully moved 246,000 Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) employees to its retirement services platform, marking the customer relationship forming between the nation's second largest home improvement company and the largest U.S. bank provider of...
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Top 4 Stocks In The Home Improvement Stores Industry With The Highest Cash (LOW, HD, BLDR, LL)
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 4:48am | 140Below are the top home improvement store stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of cash. Lowe's Companies Inc (NYSE: LOW) had $1.74 billion in total cash and $5.58 billion in total debt for the latest quarter. Home Depot Inc (The) (NYSE: HD) had $1.42 billion in total cash for the latest...
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Option-Price Data and the “Last” Price
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 10:25am | 1527Ask any stock trader or investor where a particular stock is trading and you will likely be told a simple one-price answer. Where is IBM trading? $145 a share. Pretty quantifiable and pretty cut and dried. This generally-referenced price is called the “last” price, as it's the last price at which...
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Retail Sales on the Rise - Analyst Blog
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 1:30pm | 1572Retail Sales were better than expected in November, and the numbers for October were revised sharply higher. Total retail sales rose 0.8%, much better than the 0.5% consensus expectation, and are up 7.7% from a year ago. October was revised up from 1.2% growth to 1.7% growth, which makes the...
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Retail Sales on the Rise - Analyst Blog
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 12:40pm | 1572Retail Sales were better than expected in November, and the numbers for October were revised sharply higher. Total retail sales rose 0.8%, much better than the 0.5% consensus expectation, and are up 7.7% from a year ago. October was revised up from 1.2% growth to 1.7% growth, which makes the...
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Lowes Co. Inc. VP Sells 40,000 Shares of LOW
Monday, December 13, 2010 - 5:06pm | 55In a Form 4 filed earlier today, Lowes Co. Inc. (NYSE: LOW) Vice President, Charles Canter, reported that he sold 40,000 shares of LOW on December 9th for an average price of $25.14. The transaction totaled $1,005,568. Mr. Canter owns 237,677 direct shares and 163,666 indirect shares of LOW....
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Home Depot Provides Outlook - Analyst Blog
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 3:33pm | 598The Home Depot Inc. (HD) raised the outlook for fiscal 2010 based on its performance so far in the year. The company also guided results for fiscal 2011. Home Depot now expects fiscal 2010 top line to improve 2.3% while the bottom line is forecast to increase 27% to $1.97 per share. Earlier,...
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Home Depot Provides Outlook - Analyst Blog
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 2:48pm | 598The Home Depot Inc. (HD) raised the outlook for fiscal 2010 based on its performance so far in the year. The company also guided results for fiscal 2011. Home Depot now expects fiscal 2010 top line to improve 2.3% while the bottom line is forecast to increase 27% to $1.97 per share. Earlier,...
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Company News For Dec 9, 2010 - Corporate Summary
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 11:03am | 687· Howard Stern continues his stint at Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) after signing another five-year contract · Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) was downgraded by Wells Fargo (WFC) from “outperform” to “neutral”, with the target price in the range of $64 to $65 · ...
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Lowe's Downgraded to Market Perform at FBR Capital
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 10:43am | 21Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) is downgraded from Outperform to Market Perform at FBR Capital.
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LUMBER LIQUIDAT (LL) - Profit Tracks
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 10:30am | 629Since inception in 1988, the S&P 500 has outperformed the Zacks #5 Rank List - Stocks to Sell Now by 80% annually (+2% versus +10%). While the rest of Wall Street continued to tout stocks during the market declines of the last few years, Zacks told investors which stocks to sell or avoid....
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Stock Market News For Dec 9, 2010 - Market News
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 10:30am | 1212On Wednesday, markets closed slightly higher and the S&P 500 index surged to its highest level since September 2008. A rally in financial stocks coupled with investors' optimism about the extension of Bush-era tax cuts helped the markets turn green. Investors' concerns about the rising...