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2013/1/30
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- ConocoPhillips COP reported late Wednesday its fourth-quarter profit fell to $1.4 billion, or $1.16 a share, from $3.4 billion, or $2.56 a share, a year ago.
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2013/1/31
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Constellation Brands STZ plunged 18% on Thursday in the wake of news that the Department of Justice has sued to block Anheuser-Busch InBev's BUD proposed takeover of brewer Gupo Modelo SAB GPMCY over antitrust concerns.
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2013/1/31
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Constellation Brands Inc. STZ said Thursday it no longer expects to close its acquisition of Crown Imports during the first calendar quarter of 2013.
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2013/5/9
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Costco Wholesale Corp.
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2013/2/4
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Humana Inc. HUM reported a fourth-quarter net profit of $192 million, or $1.19 a share, off from $199 million, or $1.20 a share, earned in the final three months of 2011.
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2013/5/1
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Time Warner Inc. TWX reported its quarterly profit rose 24% to $720 million, or 75 cents a share, from $581 million, or 59 cents a share, a year earlier.
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2013/5/8
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of TW Telecom Inc. TWTC and Level 3 Communications Inc. LVLT rose on Wednesday after Keith Meister, managing partner of Corvex Management LP, discussed the companies at a conference.
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2013/4/11
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Costco Wholesale Corp.
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2013/3/12
TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Costco Wholesale Corp., COST the Issaquah, Wash., warehouse retailer, on Tuesday reported that fiscal-second-quarter net income increased 39%, net sales increased 8.2%, net revenue including membership fees rose 8.3% and comparable-store sales rose 5%. For the quarter ended Feb.
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2013/3/7
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Membership warehouse club chain Costco Wholesale Corp.
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2013/3/12
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Costco Wholesale Corp.
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2013/1/29
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- A federal judge has approved a settlement that calls for BP PLC BP plead guilty to manslaughter and pay $4 billion in penalties for its part in a 2010 oil spill that wreaked havoc in the Gulf of Mexico, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.
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2013/2/22
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - A federal court in New York has sided with hedge fund manager David Einhorn in preventing Apple Inc. AAPL from putting a proposal to eliminate preferred stock to a vote by shareholders.
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2013/4/16
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Railroad operator CSX Corp.
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2013/2/6
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- CVS Caremark Corp.
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2013/5/1
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - CVS Caremark Corp.
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2013/2/13
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of several firms in the cyber-security space slipped on Wednesday morning after a Citigroup analyst expressed skepticism that an executive order from President Obama will have much impact on the sector.
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2013/1/29
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- D.R. Horton Inc. DHI said Tuesday that its fiscal first-quarter net income rose to $66.3 million, or 20 cents per diluted share, from $27.7 million, or 9 cents a share, during the same period in the prior year.
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2013/3/22
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Darden Restaurants, Inc. DRI said third-quarter profit fell $134.5 million, or $1.02 a share from $164.1 million or $1.25 a share, a year earlier.
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2013/5/9
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Dean Foods Co.
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2013/2/13
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- A weak outlook sent shares of milk producer Dean Foods DF tumbling Wednesday morning.
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2013/3/28
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Deckers Outdoor Corp.
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2013/2/13
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Deere & Company DE said Wednesday its first-quarter profit ending January 31, was $649.7 million or $1.65 a share, up from $532.9 million, or $1.30 per share, from a year earlier.
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2013/2/6
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Top economic aides for President Barack Obama met Wednesday with several chief executives of defense firms to discuss looming across-the-board spending cuts for the sector, White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
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2013/3/6
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The "special committee" of Dell Inc. DELL board members who negotiated the pending privatization deal with founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake issued a statement on Wednesday defending the deal as the best option for the PC maker.
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2013/2/14
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Dell Inc.'s DELL board had considered several options aside from a proposed buyout deal, including spinning off the Round Rock, Tex.-based tech giant's personal computer business or shedding its financial services unit, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday.
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2013/2/1
MADRID (MarketWatch) -- Dell Inc. is close to announcing an agreement to sell itself to a consortium led by founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell and private equity gruop Silver Lake Partners, Reuters reported on Friday.
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2013/2/4
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Dell Inc. is close to finalizing a buyout deal to take the company private based on a price range of $13.50 to $13.75 a share, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing unnamed sources.
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2013/2/11
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Shares of Dell Inc. DELL edged higher Monday, closing above buyout price of $13.65 for the first time since a group of investors, led by Chief Executive Michael Dell and Silver Lake, a private equity firm, unveiled a plan to take the tech giant private last week.
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2013/3/25
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- Dell Inc. DELL on Monday confirmed that it received two alternative buyout proposals from private-equity firm Blackstone Group LP BX and billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
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