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		<title><![CDATA[Home Depot Income Statement Analysis for October 2009 Quarter]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neil Carvin submits: The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) earned $0.41 per share in the third quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended 1 November 2009, down from $0.45 in the same quarter of last year.    This post examines the Income Statement for the quarter in the earnings...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:02:29 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Home Depot, Inc.Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions. We'll take our first question from Peter Benedict of Robert Baird.  Peter Benedict - Robert Baird Just wanted to get a sense, maybe Carol, of the traffic patterns in the U.S. stores during the third quarter. How was that number? I think it...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:57:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Recession Reaches Home Depot and Lowe's]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Gutowski submits:  Home Depot HD and Lowe's LOW both announced much weaker revenues this quarter, with Home Depot down 8% and Lowe's down 29.5%. Both are cutting costs and probably doing everything imaginable to salvage the situation, but economic headwinds continue at gale force levels. They will soon...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:59:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Earnings Spotlight on Mega-Retailers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ockham Research submits:  Two of the world&#8217;s largest retail chains reported earnings on Tuesday morning.  Both Target TGT and Home Depot HD topped the analysts&#8217; earnings expectations, but each of them failed to impress as investors worried about the upcoming holiday shopping season.  In the case of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:28:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wall St Gains on Broker Views, But Retailers Sink]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ellis MnyanduNEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - U.S. stocks rose to fresh 13-month highs on Tuesday as upbeat broker views on improving prospects for two Dow components offset disappointing holiday spending outlooks from Target and Home Depot.Even so, the underlying tone was negative as investors fretted about the strength of the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Big Retailers Show Profits]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Target and Saks report better quarterly earnings, and Home Depot profits beat expectations - but the stores still sound cautious about holiday shoppers.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:25:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Home Depot Revenues Down as Economy Remains Challenging]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zacks.com submits:   Home Depot HD, the largest home improvement retailer in the world, reported net income of $689 million or 41 cents per share in the third quarter of fiscal 2009, compared to net income of $756 million or 45 cents per share in the year-earlier quarter. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:38:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Industrial Output Growth Slows, Inflation Quiet]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Emily Kaiser and Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - U.S. industrial output rose less than expected in October while wholesale inflation was tame, according to reports on Tuesday that suggested the economy lost some steam after "cash for clunkers" auto incentives ended.The reports painted a picture of an economy gradually pulling...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:00:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Home Depot Profit Beats Street]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dhanya SkariachanNEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Home Depot Inc HD posted a higher than expected quarterly profit on Tuesday but warned that there was still a lot of pressure in the U.S. housing and home improvement markets, sending its shares lower.Top home improvement chain Home Depot and smaller rival Lowe's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:45:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[October Retail Sales Rise, Led by Increase in Auto Sales]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Iacono submits:  The Census Bureau reported a big increase in retail sales during the month of October paced by a 7.4 percent gain in automobile sales, a bounce-back from the September plunge in car sales after the Cash for Clunkers program ended.Overall retail sales rose 1.4 percent last...]]></description>
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