Wal-Mart Stores &#39;well placed for Christmas&#39;
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WAL-MART Stores, the worldâs largest retailer and owner of Asda supermarkets, has reported a 12.7 per cent rise in its third-quarter earnings.
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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&#39;s largest retailer, said sales at US stores open at least a year are rising within its forecast, with strongest sales coming from bedding and women&#39;s clothing.
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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. 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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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas on Wall Street: Retail stocks have been glowing for more than a month.
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Amazon.com Inc.'s holiday sales set a record on strong demand for electronics and books, while Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said December sales at its US discount stores are rising about 2 percent as shoppers completed their Christmas purchases.
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It's only September, but inflatable  Santa decorations were already on display at a newly opened  Wal-Mart store here this week as U.S. retailers try to  jump-start what looks to be a decent but unspectacular holiday  shopping season.
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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, beating Wall Street expectations, as customers flocked to its stores for cheap groceries.
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Discount retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Monday pegged its December same-store sales growth at the midpoint of current estimates and said sales on the Sunday after Christmas exceeded expectations.
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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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With less than two weeks of shopping left until Christmas, the nation&#39;s malls and stores stepped up discounts over the weekend, but business appeared to be mixed, according to analysts.
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Shoppers wait their turn in frigid wind-chill temperatures to enter Wal-Mart in Hamburg, NY, Friday, Nov. 26, 2004. Bargain shoppers woke up before dawn to head for the nation&#39;s malls and stores Friday, the
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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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Retailers made up significant ground in the final week before Christmas after a lackluster start to the holiday shopping season, according to experts who track holiday spending.
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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.