Food Retail

Cusick's Corner The QE2 has now set sail, or at least the markets think so -- what now? Well, cherry picking is tough for fear of a potentially violent change of heart, plus piecing into positions leaves you wondering what if I went all in grabbing the full upside. For stock traders who are going...

Shares of The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) are higher on the session by 1.45%, currently trading at $22.00. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past four months (albeit in a very volatile fashion), off from a recent low near $19.15. Options traders are buying calls on the name today. A...

Shares of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc. (NYSE: GAP) are lower on the session by 14.80%, currently trading at $3.39. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past six months, off from a recent high near $8.86. Options traders are buying protection on the name today. A...

American Commercial Lines Inc (NASDAQ: ACLI) shares gained 3.59% to create a new 52-week high of $33.20. Analysts at BB&T Capital upgraded ACLI from “hold” to “buy.” Ingles Markets Incorporated (NASDAQ: IMKTA) shares rose 0.81% to touch a new 52-week high of $17.42. IMKTA's PEG ratio is 0.96....

Casey's General Stores, Inc. (Nasdaq: CASY) announces that the Company has entered into an Agreement to purchase up to 19 convenience stores in Illinois owned by Harper Oil Co., Inc. The stores are currently operated under the “On The Way” banner and will be rebranded to Casey's. Harper, which...

Analysts at JP Morgan initiate coverage of Delhaize Group (NYSE: DEG) with a "neutral" rating. DEG's shares lost 0.37% to close at $70.09 yesterday. More Analyst Ratings here

Cusick's Corner On the Day that we celebrate Columbus sailing the ocean blue and the Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving too, the market sat still all day but there was one interesting play. (I love rhyming.) Technology may be at a potential breakout. XLK, the tech ETF, is at resistance of $23.5,...

Shares of SUPERVALU INC. (NYSE: SVU) are higher on the session by 2.79%, currently trading at $11.80. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past six months, off of a recent high near $17.50, though has bounced off of $10.00 as of late. Options traders are betting that shares could...

Village Super Market, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLGEA) today reported its results of operations for the fourth quarter and year ended July 31, 2010. Net income was $8,897,000 in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010, an increase of 33% from the fourth quarter of the prior year. Fiscal 2010 contains 53 weeks, with...

Here's one of your more traditional "Buffett-like" stock screens where I am essentially looking for companies selling well below their book value. With the market being as overbought as it currently is, it would be nice to find those stocks that are still considered under-valued. The stocks below...

Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: GAP) announced today preliminary terminal passenger traffic figures for the month of September 2010 compared to traffic figures for September 2009. During September 2010, total terminal passengers increased 6.2% compared to the previous year...

Cusick's Corner The market continues to exhibit emotion on both sides, up and down, but there is absolutely no conviction. The VIX 23.53 +1.03 is on the move to the upside but still in that moderate range, which from a strategic perspective, means that a lot of traders are sitting on their...

Cusick's Corner The market turned south into the midday, probably on the heels of pullbacks from the tech titan AAPL and the fact there is the largest Short Interest on record by the latest Commitment of Traders in the NAZ Futures. This is not the end of the road for the move to the upside, but it...

SUPERVALU INC.® (NYSE: SVU), parent company of SHOPPERS® Food & Pharmacy, announced today that Tim Lowe has been appointed president of SHOPPERS. Lowe, who recently served as senior vice president of operations for SHOPPERS, will assume his new role on October 11.