en-us Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:06:40 -0800 BBI BBI Reuters) - Costco Wholesale Corp COST is hoping that consumers are becoming more comfortable making purchases as the No. 1 U.S. warehouse club operator heads into the year-end holiday shopping season."We still are cautious but are keeping our fingers crossed that people are buying a little bit," said...]]> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:15:25 -0800 COST COST Reuters) - McDonald's Corp MCD said sales at established U.S. restaurants fell 0.1 percent in October, as expected, but its stock ticked up 1.5 percent after sales from the rest of the world buoyed overall results.McDonald's, which has been outperforming its peers, had...]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:15:17 -0800 BKC MCD WEN YUM BKC,MCD,WEN,YUM Reuters) - U.S. retailers are poised to defy gloom this week as earnings expectations have improved, but the big test will be what they say about holiday shopping.Earnings estimates for Standard & Poor's 500 retailers have headed higher in recent weeks, some after October same-store sales...]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:45:22 -0800 JCP WMT JCP,WMT Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:43:07 -0800 CSTR CSTR Reuters) - More than half of U.S. retail chains posted October sales that fell short of Wall Street's heightened expectations, raising doubts about a widespread recovery for the holiday season.Department store chains and teen retailers in particular disappointed investor expectations, while such disparate companies as apparel...]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:30:47 -0800 ARO AMZN AEO JCG JCP KSS SKS GPS TJX ARO,AMZN,AEO,JCG,JCP,KSS,SKS,GPS,TJX Reuters) - Costco Wholesale Corp COST reported a 5 percent increase in October same-store sales, helped by a weak U.S. dollar that helped push up international sales.Analysts on average were expecting a rise of 4.7 percent in same-store sales, including the impact of fuel prices and foreign exchange, according to...]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:45:13 -0800 COST COST Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:28:00 -0800 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:51:08 -0700 BRY BRY Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:29:09 -0700 FLS FLS Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:54:08 -0700 BWLD BWLD Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:41:08 -0700 CMG CMG Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:15:00 -0700 SKS SKS Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:36:19 -0700 CKR CKR Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:56:15 -0700 ANF ANF Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:18:45 -0700 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:15:37 -0700 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:56:11 -0700 KONA KONA Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:22:17 -0700 BWLD BWLD Wed, 20 May 2009 13:48:19 -0700 JPM MS TGT JPM,MS,TGT