Food Retail

Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance fell by 17,000 last week to 421,000 (last week was also revised up by 2,000, so one could see it as a 15,000 decline). This was better than the expected level of 425,000. The recent trend in claims has been downward, but the path has been erratic. It still...

Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance fell by 17,000 last week to 421,000 (last week was also revised up by 2,000, so one could see it as a 15,000 decline). This was better than the expected level of 425,000. The recent trend in claims has been downward, but the path has been erratic. It still...

Shares of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (NYSE: GAP) are higher on the session by 0.68%, trading at $2.97. Overall put volume is now running at 3.34x the daily average, with 51% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 3,347 contracts have traded on the session so far. The...

On 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...

On 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...

Buoyed by a healthy financial position and robust outlook of  Whole Foods Market, Inc.'s (WFMI), the company's Board of Directors has reinstated the quarterly dividend after a hiatus of more than two years. The Board approved a quarterly dividend of 10 cents a share. Management said that the...

Buoyed by a healthy financial position and robust outlook of  Whole Foods Market, Inc.'s (WFMI), the company's Board of Directors has reinstated the quarterly dividend after a hiatus of more than two years. The Board approved a quarterly dividend of 10 cents a share. Management said that the...

Whole Foods Market Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI) said after the close it will reinstate its quarterly dividend, which will be 10 cents and is payable to shareholders as of January 10. Shares of WFMI gained 19 cents today to close at $48.90.

Safeway Inc. (NYSE: SWY) announced that its Board of Directors met yesterday and declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.12 per share. The cash dividend will be payable on January 13, 2011 to stockholders of record at the close of business on December 23, 2010. The Board also increased...

Here are 5 stocks added to the Zacks #1 Rank ("strong buy") List today: Cascade Corp (CASC) Celanese Corp (CE) Colony Financial, Inc (CLNY) Credit Acceptance Corp (CACC) Delhaize Group (DEG) View the entire Zacks #1 Rank List. CREDIT ACCEPT (CACC): Free Stock Analysis Report CASCADE CORP (CASC...

Here are 5 stocks added to the Zacks #1 Rank ("strong buy") List today: Cascade Corp (CASC) Celanese Corp (CE) Colony Financial, Inc (CLNY) Credit Acceptance Corp (CACC) Delhaize Group (DEG) View the entire Zacks #1 Rank List. CREDIT ACCEPT (CACC): Free Stock Analysis Report CASCADE CORP (CASC...

Casey's General Stores Inc. (NASDAQ: CASY) reports Q3 earnings of $0.51 versus consensus of $0.77. Casey's General Stores Inc. reports Q3 revenues of $1.349 billion versus consensus of $1.34 billion. “We are pleased with the second quarter results driven by strong sales increases across all...

Casey's General Stores, Inc. (Nasdaq: CASY) today reported $0.51 in basic earnings per share for the second quarter of fiscal 2011 ended October 31, 2010. The results include approximately $19.4 million in expenses pertaining to the Company's recapitalization plan completed in the second quarter as...

Shares of Safeway Inc. (NYSE: SWY) are lower on the session by 0.56%, trading at $21.34. Overall put volume is now running at 4.30x the daily average, with 9% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 1,779 contracts have traded on the session so far. Safeway Inc. is a food and drug...

In a Form 4 filed earlier today, Whole Foods Market Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI) CFO, Glenda Flanagan, reported that she sold 5,000 shares of WFMI on December 3rd for an average price of $48.78. The transaction totaled $243,904. Ms. Flanagan owns 113,383 direct shares of WFMI. Source: The Washington Service