Home Depot Unit Sold for Far Less in Tight Market
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The company was forced to drop the sale price of its commercial supply business by nearly $2 billion, one of the first big buyouts to be renegotiated as a result of the recent credit squeeze.
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Home Depot Inc.  on Tuesday forecast a deeper profit drop for 2007, citing weakness in the U.S. housing market.
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Shares of Home Depot Inc.  rose 2  percent on Monday after published reports, citing unnamed  sources, said the home improvement retailer agreed to cut the  price in the sale of its supply unit by $1.8 billion to $8.5  billion.
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Home Depot has reached a deal with a consortium of private-equity firms headed by Carlyle Group to sell its supply arm, HD Supply, for $8.5 billion, down from its original price of $10.3 billion, according to sources close to the negotiations.
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Home Depot Inc. , the world's largest home improvement retailer, posted a 28 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit on Tuesday as the weak U.S. housing market depressed sales.
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Home improvement retailer Home Depot cut its 2007 earnings outlook on Tuesday, citing weakness in the U.S. housing market and said it was launching a tender offer for 250 million shares.
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Lower sell-throughs lead to unhappily high inventories.
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U.S. stocks were little changed on   Monday as a brokerage downgrade of Home Depot Inc. HD.N   weighed on blue chips, offsetting optimism the Federal Reserve   will refrain from raising interest rates this week.
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ATLANTA -- The Home Depot Inc., the world's largest home improvement store chain, revised its financial outlook Monday, paring its expected decline in earnings per share from continuing operations thanks to a tender offer that will reduce the number of its outstanding shares.
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Home Depot  is close to  accepting about $1.2 billion less for the sale of its wholesale  distribution business to three private equity firms, The Wall  Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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Home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc  agreed to cut the price of its supply division sale by $1.8 billion, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
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In move to expand home appliance market share, retailer offers free delivery for products over $299. CHICAGO  - Home Depot Inc.
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The home improvement giant said it's considering selling its wholesale supply business.
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- Home Depot Inc  said it completed the sale of its wholesale supply business, HD Supply, to buyout firms on the same terms announced earlier this week.
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Home Depot Inc.  has agreed to sell its supply division to three private equity firms, sources said on Tuesday, in a deal worth more than $10 billion.
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No company seems immune to a buyout -- including Home Depot.
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Home Depot Inc. , the world's largest home-improvement chain, doesn't expect the US housing market to improve until late next year.