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2013/2/21
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Dow component Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT shares rose 1.6% on Thursday after the company reported a better-than-expected fiscal fourth quarter profit and raised its annual dividend 18% to $1.88 a share.
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2013/5/7
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT is looking at two internal choices to succeed Chief Executive Mike Duke, Bloomberg News reported, citing a person familiar with the situation.
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2013/6/7
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT said at its annual shareholder meeting on Friday that it will repurchase as much as $15 billion in shares.
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2013/6/7
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT Chief Executive Mike Duke said at the company's annual shareholder meeting on Friday that it expects to generate $10 billion in online sales by the end of this year, up from its previous goal of $9 billion, to reflect growth and acquisition of China's ecommerce site Yihaodian.
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2013/4/12
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Wall Street bank stocks fell at the open on Friday after J.P. Morgan Chase [S: JPM] and Wells Fargo [S: WFC], two of the nation's biggest banks, reported quarterly financial results.
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2013/4/8
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - U.S. stocks erased Monday losses to turn modestly higher as investors once again viewed a market drop as a buying opportunity.
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2013/2/22
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The Washington Post Co.
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2013/5/1
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Rep.
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2013/4/24
MADRID (MarketWatch) -- WellPoint Inc. WLP on Wednesday reported a 14.2% jump in earnings as sales rose 14.7% and the managed health care firm lifted its full-year earnings per share outlook.
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2013/4/23
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Wells Fargo & Co.
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2013/4/12
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Wells Fargo & Co.
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2013/4/24
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Western Digital Corp.
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2013/2/12
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Western Union Co.
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2013/4/24
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Whirlpool Corp.
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2013/6/4
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Banking analyst Meredith Whitney, who made her name with a pessimistic call on the banking sector prior to the financial crisis, said on Tuesday that banks are in a different economy than in 2007.
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2013/5/30
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Shares of Whole Food Market Inc. WFM rose Thursday following a two-for-one stock split.
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2013/2/13
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Whole Foods Market WFM Wednesday missed the fiscal first-quarter consensus estimate for sales at its existing stores, sending the stock down 5% in late trades.
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2013/3/25
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Whole Foods Market Inc. WFM was downgraded to neutral from overweight on Monday at Piper Jaffray, which cited decelerating same-store sales trends and rising competition.
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2013/5/7
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Whole Foods Market WFM late Tuesday topped Wall Street's quarterly profit view, announced a 2-for-1 stock split, and raised its fiscal 2013 profit forecast.
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2013/5/16
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Shares of William Lyon Homes rose more than 4% Thursday in the builder's first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
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2013/3/19
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Williams-Sonoma Inc. WSM reported late Tuesday its fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 9% to $133.7 million, or $1.34 a share, from $122.6 million, or $1.17 a share, a year ago.
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2013/3/20
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Investor sentiment toward Williams-Sonoma Inc. WSM turned even more bullish on Wednesday as its shares surged 8% after the market opened.
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2013/6/3
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Williams-Sonoma Inc. WSM and Hyatt Hotels Corp.
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2013/2/26
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- BP PLC BP shares were flat Tuesday, the second day of a civil trial in New Orleans on the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.
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2013/4/16
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Wolverine World Wide Inc.'s WWW shares rose 6.7% on Tuesday after the company reported a much better-than-expected first-quarter result.
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2013/5/22
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Workday Inc. WDAY on Wednesday reported a first-quarter loss of $33 million, or 20 cents a share, on revenue of $91.6 million.
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2013/3/7
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Workday Inc. WDAY slipped nearly 3% in after-hours trades Thursday after the provider of cloud-based enterprise software services reported fourth-quarter results that included a forecast that was slightly below Wall Street's expectations.
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2013/2/15
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Xoom Corp.
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2013/2/15
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Xoom Corp.
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2013/5/14
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Tech stocks rose in early trading Tuesday, with gains from the likes of Microsoft Corp.
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