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		<title><![CDATA[Shoppers Hit Black Friday Sales With Pared Budgets]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michele Gershberg and Dhanya SkariachanNEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Americans headed to department stores in droves in the dead of night on Friday to kick off the holiday shopping season, though many said they had pared back how much they would spend on family members and on themselves.Black Friday, the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:45:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Long-Term Bearish Bet on Dean Foods]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[optionMONSTER submits:  by David Russell     One big trader is looking for lower prices over the next year in Dean Foods DF, which has been falling since its last earnings report early this month. by optionMONSTER]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:41:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tiffany: More Resilient than We Thought]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veronique Adam submits:  Stock price: $43.9   Conclusion: Tiffany has been more resilient than we thought thanks to efficient cost control, tight cash management and improved forex. The stock trades at a premium to the sector, which seems justified by its long term growth potential. Despite low visibility...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:30:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[McCormick's Dividend Increase Spices Things Up]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Trippon submits: The food sector continues to provide income investors with plenty of reasons to cheer as the dividend hikes from this group just keep on coming. Spice-maker McCormick (NYSE: MKC) is the latest food-related issue to join the party, announcing an 8.3% increase to its quarterly payout. The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:59:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Buying Homemade Italian: American Italian Pasta Company]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Invest With An Edge submits:  By Brandon Clay U.S. consumers love spending money &#8211; or at least they used to. Saving money? Not so much. Think back to the three most recent economic growth periods: The Reagan Boom of the mid-1980s, the Clinton Boom of the mid-1990s and the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:08:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[DSG Returns to Underlying Sales Growth]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James DaveyLONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - DSG International DSGI, Europe's No.2 electricals retailer, reported a pick-up in sales in recent weeks, helped by store upgrades and demand for Microsoft's MSFT new Windows 7 computer operating system.DSG, which runs the Currys and PC World chains, said on Thursday sales at stores...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:15:21 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[DSG First-half Losses Beat Hopes]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - DSG International, Europe's second-biggest electrical goods retailer beat expectations for first-half losses as it battles recession and said it was seeing improving trends in its businesses in recent weeks."While we are cautious about the outlook for 2010, we are well-positioned as we enter into peak trading,"...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:45:39 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hormel Foods? Heartening Results]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zacks.com submits:   Yesterday, Hormel Foods Corp. HRL reported heartening performance for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2009. During the fourth quarter of 2009, the company reported EPS of 77 cents, up 54% from 50 cents per share in the same quarter of 2008. It was also above...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:38:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Turnaround Cases: Penn Traffic]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Variant Perceptions submits:  Let&#8217;s make a break with the Premier Exhibitions series. While doing some well deserved procrastination, I crossed paths with Penn Traffic Co (PTFC.PK) a supermarket chain filling for chapter 11 a couple of days ago.   Retail is combat sport. Having worked for a very...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:25:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ahead of Black Friday: Has Consumer Confidence Been Restored?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Duy submits:  We are embarking once again into that time of the year when reporters around the world become entranced and enthralled with that orgy of consumerism that defines Christmas in America.  Soon we will be tracking the ups and downs of holiday sales with a zeal...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:22:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Whole Foods: Not Every Sale Is a Bargain]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zachary Scheidt submits:   Black Friday is coming &#8211; that dreaded day when consumers look for bargains, and retailers stay open from dawn (or pre-dawn) to dusk in a day that could make or break sales goals for the entire year.  Investors are shopping for bargains as well,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:07:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tiffany to Sparkle for Investors this Holiday?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ockham Research submits:  &#8220;Figures out from Tiffany, reporting better than expected the stock has more than doubles from last year. Today, you can see it&#8217;s trading up $1. 71&#8230; Within Tiffany&#8217;s results, it really reflects a company that has defended their brands. They do not mark down their products.&#8221;...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:59:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Black Friday: Price Discrimination Doesn't Explain Everything]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karl Smith submits:    By Adam Ozimek Arnold Kling writes &#8220;that price discrimination really deserves a lot more attention than it gets in the economics curriculum. A lot of 'economic naturalist' sorts of questions are correctly answered by appealing to the concept of price discrimination&#8221;.  Contrary to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:42:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[J. Crew Beats Third Quarter Estimates]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zacks.com submits:   J. Crew Group Inc. JCG, a multi-channel retailer of women's, men's and children's apparel, shoes and accessories across the U.S., has reported better-than-expected fiscal 2009 third quarter results with a net income of $43.9 million or 67 cents per share, compared to a net income of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:11:45 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Dinner 2009: Over the Past Year, Turkey Outperformed Gold]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ironman at Political Calculations submits:  The American Farm Bureau Federation has their own Thanksgiving tradition each year: the advocacy group informally prices out the cost of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings, adding up the cost of the turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, rolls with butter, peas, cranberries,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:52:10 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Coach: Growth and Growth Yield at a Reasonable Price]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chuck Carnevale submits: Weathered the Storm   Coach COH  has weathered the recession extremely well. Although fiscal 2009 ending June 30 was a down year, it was nevertheless their second most profitable year ever. So far fiscal 2010 promises a return to growth. Even though their profitability remained...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Currency Gain Boost For French Connection]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Fashion group French Connection said third quarter turnover increased 8 percent year-on-year, with most of the rise due to favourable exchange rates rather than any improvement in underlying trade.The firm, which has struggled in recent years as the appeal of its FCUK brand has waned, said...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Holiday Shopping 2009: 5 Things You Need to Know This Year]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a grim holiday season in 2008, retailers have regrouped and changed  their tactics. Inventories are tighter, and stores are trying to maintain profits by limiting their discounting strategies. But understanding what retailers are up to will give you a decided advantage this year. Here are five big trends...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Grocers' Non-food Sales Seen to Rise]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Sales of non-food ranges at grocers are set to rise 40 percent over the next five years, a study said on Wednesday, piling pressure on specialist retailers already hit by recession and online competition.Grocery specialists IGD forecast sales of non-food ranges such as clothing, electricals and...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA["Black Friday," that infamous day after Thanksgiving, isn't the only major shopping day in the coming week anymore.  87.1 percent of retailers will also run promotions on "Cyber Monday" for all those bargain hunters who shop around online right after the Thanksgiving weekend. by Stefan Deeran]]></description>
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