Wal-Mart says to slow supercenter growth, shares jump
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FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas  - Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  said on Friday that it will slow growth of its supercenters as it tries to improve sales at its U.S. stores and will also buy back $15 billion of stock, sending the world's largest retailer's shares up 4 percent.
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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.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world&#39;s largest retailer, said on Saturday it still expects a 2 percent to 4 percent increase in November sales at its US stores open at least a year.
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Retail giant plans to build up to 250 supercenters in &#39;05 despite a rising tide of community opposition. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world&#39;s largest retailer, plans to open more so-called supercenters next year
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N, the  world's biggest retailer, suffered another blow to its star  status on Wednesday when a leading U.S. investment bank  downgraded the company's stock.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the  world's largest retailer, on Thursday reported a  lower-than-expected 0.9 percent rise in February sales at its  U.S. stores open at least a year.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. investors will be focused on the retailer's forecast for its new fiscal year and indications as to when sales at its U.S. store base may finally strengthen when the world's largest retailer reports fourth-quarter results on Tuesday.
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Shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s  rose nearly 3 percent on Monday after analysts upgraded their ratings on the world's largest retailer's stock, citing its plans to curb U.S. store growth and a $15 billion share buyback announcement.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N, the  world'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. , the world's largest retailer, said on Saturday it expects a 0.7 percent increase in November sales at its U.S. 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., 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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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the world's largest retailer, slashed its own expectations of November sales on Saturday, saying customer traffic declined toward the end of Thanksgiving Day week, which signals the start of the holiday shopping season.
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Asian stocks edged down on Tuesday as  a reduced sales forecast by the world's biggest retailer,  Wal-Mart, stoked concerns of slower economic growth and offset  relief from lower oil prices.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart will scale back the number of planned U.S. supercenter store openings next year by more than 25 percent, a move that will drop its capital expenditures by $1.5 billion in the current fiscal year, the company announced Friday at its annual shareholders meeting.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) shares fell in pre-market trading on Monday after the world&#39;s biggest retailer cut its November sales forecast, casting a shadow over hopes for a bumper holiday shopping season.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world&#39;s largest retailer, said on Saturday that it still expects a 2 percent to 4 percent increase in November sales at its US stores open at least one year.
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U.S. stocks edged lower on Monday after Wal-Mart Stores , the world's largest retailer, said September same-store sales came in at the low end of a forecast.