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Saturday, January 31, 2009
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Friday, January 30, 2009
This week in business news: More job cuts, Pfizer to acquire Wyeth, GDP continues to shrink, Fed leaves rates unchanged.
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Friday, January 30, 2009
The best and worst from the stock market in Friday's session.
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Friday, January 30, 2009
Honeywell International (HON) the Morristown, New Jersey-based maker of cockpit electronics reported a rise in fourth-quarter income to $707 million, or 97 cents per share, up from $689 million or 91 cents per share in the previous year.
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Friday, January 30, 2009
MORE NEWS
- Better Place Wants to Make Owning an Electric Car More Convenient
- Big Amazon Gains Give Early Lift To Tech Sector
- Hitachi Slashes Outlook, Plans To Cut Up To 7,000 Jobs
- Fujitsu April-December Loss Widens To 36.1 Billion Yen
- Stocks In Focus For Friday
- Dell Preparing Mobile Phone For As Soon As Next Month -- WSJ
- Toshiba, NEC In Talks To Integrate Chip Operations: Report
- Amazon.com Beats Expectations; Profit Rises 9%
- KLA-Tencor Swings To Quarterly Loss
- Monster Worldwide Fourth-quarter Profit Falls
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PRESS RELEASES
- Bonds.com Provides December and Full Year 2008 Results Across Key Business Metrics
- Legend Power Announces $2 Million Public Offering by Way of Short Form Offering Document
- Overstock.com(R) Announces Airing of Super Bowl(R) Commercial
- Amylin Pharmaceuticals Confirms Receipt of Director Nomination Notices
- MarketNotes.biz Issues Report for Investors of AMZN, EBAY, GOOG, OSTK, BIDZ, LIVE
- BetterInvesting Magazine Releases April's Stock to Study and Undervalued Stock Choices for Investors' Informational and Educational Use
- TTM Technologies, Inc. to Present At the Thomas Weisel Partners Technology & Telecom Conference On February 11, 2009
- Alphinat announces its interim financial results for the period ending November 30, 2008
- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Files Class Action Lawsuit Against IBSG International, Inc. -- IBIN
- VRX and Sabre Agree to Extend Debenture Maturity Date
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Most folks judge the health of a business by the revenue that comes in through sales. But not all revenue is equal. Companies can grow their sales by buying other companies, which means you don't get a clear view of how the real sales trends are moving.
So, many analysts, particularly those who look at retail, try to gauge what¿s known as "organic" growth, by looking at same-store sales. These are sales only at outlets open more than a year, so the metric can exclude any sales jump that comes from opening new locations. Retailers release same-store sales (which are frequently called "comps" since they're a true comparison from the previous period) every month.
Retail, incidentally, isn't the only industry to look at same-store sales. Hospital companies, also use the metric, to gauge how existing hospitals are performing compared to ones they just built or acquired.