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		<title><![CDATA[Opportunities in the Rediscovered Layaway Culture]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Penny Sleuth submits:   By Greg Guenther In today&#8217;s market, there&#8217;s plenty of pain to go around. In fact, a much-maligned retail tactic is making a comeback: layaway. by The Penny Sleuth]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:05:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Aaron's Rents: Rare Opportunity for Share Price Appreciation in 2009]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Kabourek submits: Tough times are prosperous times for rent-to-own companies. Rent-to-own companies are low-end banks. They provide furniture, appliances, and electronics to those that have credit issues or are turned off by the established credit industry. Customers are generally lower income earners that know that they will get into...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:30:53 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Aaron Rents Can Benefit from This Credit Environment]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ockham Research submits:  In the search for stocks that have the potential to benefit from a protracted recession, we want to highlight an undervalued stock in the rent-to-own segment. Aaron Rents RNT, an Atlanta based company, was being pummeled Tuesday, down more than 16% as of this post. This...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:32:06 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Earnings Preview: Rent-A-Center]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rent-A-Center RCII is expected to report Q3 earnings after market close Monday, Oct. 27, with a conference call scheduled for Tuesday at 10:45 am. Guidance Analysts are looking for a profit of 48c on revenue of $700.15M. The consensus range is 45c to 50c for EPS, and revenue of $688.6M...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:15:09 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PowerShares Dynamic Retail ETF Finds Bargains in Discount Retailers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Dion submits:   Despite an extended economic slowdown and poor consumer spending numbers, PowerShares Dynamic Retail Portfolio ETF PMR gained momentum over the summer. While some analysts believe that the worst is yet to come for retail, an increasing number of investors believe that some retailers are oversold...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:16:03 -0700</pubDate>
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