Wal-Mart sales, profits increase
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. saw sales and profits increase during the third quarter this year, even as rising energy costs ate into customersâ spending money.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Tuesday said third quarter profits and sales climbed, though it called its key division&#39;s performance &quot;poor.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N, the  world's biggest retailer, posted a 13 percent rise in quarterly  profit on Tuesday and raised its outlook and expectations for  holiday sales, saying the economy was improving.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  on Thursday affirmed its profit forecast for the current quarter despite lackluster September sales growth.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc  on Thursday reported a 2.4 percent rise in December sales at U.S. stores open at least a year, helped by strong sales of food.
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By Vicki Lee Parker, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 21--UNITED STATES   RETAIL   Wal-Mart's profit-increase beats expectations   Washington -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. expects to report 3 percent growth in same-store sales for December after sales for the past weekend came in above the retailer's internal plan.
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Description: Wal-Mart says sales for November are up by just a small fraction this year, a lackluster start to the holiday season that may be attributable to a difference in the retail chain&#39;s pricing strategy.
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. reported a modest four percent rise in quarterly profits on Tuesday as the world's biggest retailer appeared to weather an abrupt slowdown in US economic growth.
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Wal-Mart said Saturday that higher shopper traffic in the past week raised its comparable-store sales above the previous year. Free!
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world&#39;s largest retailer, said on Saturday it still anticipates a 2 percent to 4 percent increase in November sales at its stores open at least a year.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said a surge in after-Christmas shopping spurred December same-store sales gains of about 3 percent, at the high end of its forecast. Kmart Holding Corp. said profit rose 10 percent during the holiday season after it limited deep discounts.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N, the  world's biggest retailer, on Tuesday reported higher quarterly  profit, meeting Wall Street expectations, and said it was  optimistic about the rest of the year.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. met Wall Street expectations with a 12.7 percent increase in its fiscal third-quarter earnings. Wal-Mart said Tuesday it earned $2.29 billion, or 54 cents per share, in the August-October
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  said on Saturday it still expects a 1 percent to 3 percent increase in December sales at its U.S. stores open at least a year as sales of general merchandise and winter items improved in the latest week.
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart says sales at US stores were up somewhere between 1 and 3 percent last week. The report compares sales at existing stores from the same week last year.
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A busy Veterans Day helped Wal-Mart&#39;s weekly sales rise from a year earlier at stores open a year, the retailer said Saturday.