Hypermarkets & Super Centers

Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a common stock repurchase program of up to $4 billion. This program will expire in April 2015 and replaces the existing program, which has unused authorization of approximately $800 million, which...

Express Scripts Inc. (NASDAQ: ESRX) reported 1Q11 non-GAAP EPS of $0.66 below MS' $0.70 and consensus' $0.69, Morgan Stanley reports. “Results were driven be a decline in script count, down 5.2 million or 2.7% sequentially and down 0.3% y/y,” Morgan Stanley writes. “Previously announced contract...

Jefferies is maintaining its Hold rating and $93 price target on Boston Properties (NYSE: BXP) in light of the company's announcement that it plans to sell its Princeton portfolio. In the report, Jefferies writes, “BXP announced on April 25th that it will sell its Princeton portfolio for $468M....

10. Bank of America Corporation (NYSE:BAC) Worldwide Employees- 288,062 Mkt cap- 124.59B Brian T. Moynihan- President, Chief Executive Officer Charles H. Noski- Chief Financial Officer Related companies: Citigroup Inc (C), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM) Bank of...

Mitsui & Co. Ltd (MITSY)- Mkt cap- 30.59B, P/E- 7.61, Div/yield- 2.45/1.21, EPS- 43.94 Competitors- Itochu Corporation (ITOCY), Marubeni Corp (MARUY), SUMITOMO CORPORATION (SSUMY)- Shoei Utsuda- Chairman of the Board , Masami Iijima- President, Chief Executive Officer, Junichi Matsumoto-...

BP plc (BP)- The Gulf Coast Claims Facility, established last August with $20 billion in seed money from BP, said it has approved 300,000 claims from businesses and individuals hurt by the spill, out of approximately 857,000 claims submitted. Poor trading results are likely to hurt Goldman Sachs...

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kosmix, underscoring its commitment to social and mobile commerce. Kosmix, based in Mountain View, Calif., has developed a social media technology platform that filters and organizes content in social...

Big Lots (NYSE: BIG) posted a record income for Q4 last year, in which the net income totaled $222.5 million, or $2.83 per diluted share, compared to $200.4 million, or $2.42 per diluted share, in the prior year. Following good profit results, last Friday Big Lots announced changes in its...

  Mythbusters   With episodes like, cannonball of cheese, boomerang bullet, and exploding turkey, Mythbusters is definitely one of the craziest shows on TV. Crashing vehicles, falling dummies, and lots (and lots) of things blowing up - it's no wonder this show is extremely popular...

The U.S. Department of Labor will release its report of initial and continuing jobless claims for the week ending April 9th and continuing jobless claims for the week ending April 2nd today at 8:30am EST. Initial and Continuing Jobless Claims Summary: Initial Claims for w/e April 9: Expected 3....

This morning the major stock market indexes are trading lower across the board. The decline is very broad based as most leading sectors including technology, and energy, are trading lower. There is one sector that is posting green on the screen and that is the retail sector. The Retail Holders...

Cusick's Corner This is the week that the market gets to focus on corporate earnings (with some high expectations) and not on headlines like the EU debt crisis or tectonic shifts in Asia. This does not mean that the prospect of market volatility has increased -- as you can see from the anemic...

Brian Sozzi of Wall Street Strategies tweeted that he thinks Wal_Mart's (NYSE: WMT) credit rating is at risk. Sozzi said this view is strengthened by the newest debt offering. Shares of Wal-Mart are up 9 cents to $52.63 in early Monday trading.

Masimo Corporation (NASDAQ: MASI) was downgraded by BMO Capital from "outperform" to "market perform." MASI's shares closed at $34.11 yesterday. Masimo's trailing-twelve-month revenue is $405.41 million. KeyBanc downgraded Buckle Inc (The) (NYSE: BKE) from “buy” to “hold.” BKE's stock closed at $...

Pre-open movers US stock futures are higher this morning. Oil prices surged above $111 a barrel. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 43 points to 12,394.00 and S&P 500 index futures surged 5.50 points to 1,334.00. Futures on the Nasdaq 100 gained 6 points at 2,335.25. A Peek Into...