USA : Wal-Mart predicts bumper Christmas
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world&#39;s biggest retailer, informed it was confident to see &quot;another record quarter and a successful holiday season&quot; after posting solid third-quarter results.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world&#39;s largest retailer, said Saturday it expects a 0.7 percent increase in November sales at its US stores open at least one year, down from a forecast of 2 percent to 4 percent a week ago.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s WMT.N Chief  Executive Lee Scott is "optimistic" about the holiday season  and expects a "strong finish" to the year, he said on Tuesday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world&#39;s largest retailer, estimated November sales at US stores open at least a year rose about 0.7 percent, less than its forecast, amid higher gasoline prices that curbed consumer spending.
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U.S. retailers are expected to post  modest November sales this week, with No. 1 retailer Wal-Mart  Stores Inc. already cutting its holiday outlook on high oil  prices and warmer weather.
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Retailing titan expects same-store sales to increase by 2% to 4% in November, heading into holidays. CHICAGO  - Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  said on Saturday it still expected a 2 percent to 4 percent increase in January sales at its U.S. stores open at least a year, in line with its previous forecast.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world&#39;s largest discount retailer, on Tuesday signaled it will cut prices in the weeks before Christmas after a strategy against deep discounts backfired on the first weekend of the holiday shopping season.
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The nation's retailers had a strong start to the holiday shopping season, according to results announced Saturday by a national research group that tracks sales at mall-based stores. One big exception was Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which said it expects to report same-store sales in November below its already lackluster forecast.
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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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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world&#39;s largest retailer, on Saturday said it still expects a 1 percent to 3 percent increase in December sales at its US stores open at least a year.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, announced Monday that it expects its December sales to have risen 3 percent at stores open at least a year, a figure that is at the top end of the company's sales estimate.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N, the No.  1 U.S. retailer, on Tuesday signaled it will cut prices in the  weeks before Christmas after a strategy against deep discounts  backfired on the first weekend of the holiday shopping season.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world&#39;s largest retailer, said US sales at stores open at least a year are rising within its forecast after four months of disappointing results.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N on  Thursday reported a 3 percent rise in sales at its U.S. stores  open at least a year in December, the big holiday shopping  month, which was at the top end of its forecast range.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N 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.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the world's largest retailer, said on Saturday that it still expects a 2 percent to 4 percent increase in November sales at its U.S. stores open at least one year.