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...Retail week, part I: Home Depot (and the retail sales report) The first leg of this week’s Home Depot/Target/Walmart results trifecta is in....
...These factors mean that what was supposed to be a V-shaped trajectory in AxJ would look more U-shaped....
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...We think Airbus would be best-positioned to benefit from a V-shaped recovery in 2021....
...The Covid-19 vaccine(s) will prove a shot in the arm for both the UK economy and its peers....
...“People focus on hardware way too much — it’s a content business, not a technology business,” he continues. “You can’t put Grand Theft Auto V on an iPhone, it’s not the same experience....
...at a Home Depot store from April....
...(Bloomberg) GM “must turn over documents related to its subprime auto-lending under a subpoena issued by the U.S....
...(Financial Times) “U.S. authorities are pushing BNP Paribas to pay more than $10 billion to end a criminal probe into allegations the bank evaded U.S. sanctions, according to people familiar with the negotiations...
...US: Dell, Home Depot, JC Penney. “The Justice Department is investigating whether J.P....
...., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Group pulled off a sweep in the first three months of a year, with all three gaining U.S. market share in 2013’s first quarter.”...
...Lowe’s stock dropped 3.5 per cent to $27.62 and Home Depot shed 2.6 per cent to $51.65....
...HTC is partnering with Nvidia for the first time – using its Tegra 3 quad-core processor in its One X smartphone (it also unveiled a slimmer dual-core One S and a cheaper One V)....
...But sales were sluggish and shares in Lowe’s fell 1.1 per cent to $21.46 while rival Home Depot nudged down 0.2 per cent to $31.39....
...By 2006, signs of strain were appearing: U.S. home sales had peaked in mid-2005, and home price appreciation had stopped....
...Home Depot was lower following the disappointing figures for sales of new home....
...Home Depot beat estimates but still posting a deflationary 9.1% sales plunge after Lowe’s announced a 9.5% slide in same-store receipts....
...US home prices continued their multi-year tumble in April, according to the S&P Case-Shiller home-price indices, although the decline was smaller for the third month in a row....
...There was some relatively bright news from the retail sector, where Home Depot advanced 3.6 per cent to $20.71....
...Alan Ruskin, of RBS Global Banking & Markets, said: “I see no reason why the financial sector should foresee anything better than a protracted rounded bottom or u-shaped recovery when it comes, and that...
...Office Depot, however, was a weak spot, dropping 31.6 per cent to $7.08 after it said North American same-store sales fell nearly 10 per cent in the second quarter and it warned on operating margins....
...The S&P homebuilder index fell 4.1 per cent at 429.44. KB Home shed 4.3 per cent to $27.70....
...Consumer discretionary stocks remained the best of the leading 10 sectors on the S&P on Wednesday. Home Depot, up 1.5 per cent at $33.87, posted some of the best gains on the Dow....
...Home Depot shares fell 5.1 per cent to $36.36 after it said it expected to buy back $10.7bn in stock....
...By contrast, companies that depend on domestic consumers such as W al-Mart , the retail bell-wether, and Home Depot, the do-it-yourself chain, have released disappointing results and gloomy predictions....
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