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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Will Staples Break Back Under $20.00??? (SPLS, OMX)	Staples Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) is being pounded into the open. Shares just opened and are down by about 9% at $22.28 in very active trading. We have seen over 700,000 shares trade hands. The business and consumer slowing is affecting its sales. The office supplies retailer sees 2008 sales growth in low-single digits and now sees flat earnings growth before a large charge related to its acquisition of Corporate Express. For Q2 it actually sees a drop of 15% to earnings on a 3% sales rise. Wh...	August 19, 2008
'Autopilot' portfolio: 10 stocks for long-term investors	Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Newsletters, Walt Disney (DIS), Costco Wholesale (COST), Staples Inc (SPLS), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Personal finance, Stocks to Buy"I've always been a big fan of putting into the market on a regular basis regardless of what is happening in the overall market," explains Chuck Carlson, long considered one of the advisory industry's leading experts on dividend reinvestment plans. Here, the editor of The DRIP Investor offers a 10-stock...	August 15, 2008
Shopping for Profits in the Retail Aisle	The Summer is flying by and excitement is building as we diligently work on setting up the fall 2008 portfolio and ETF design contest (students/professors/administrators: there is still time to get your school involved, email me). Of course, I’m not the only one excited for the upcoming school year—retailers are reading their cash registers. Bath & Beyond (BBBY)’s most recent 10-Q notes “sales levels are generally higher in August, November, and December.” August was primetime in t...	July 29, 2008
Jim Cramer’s Lightning Round	Bullish Disney (DIS), Staples (SPLS) and True Religion (TRLG). Bearish United Airlines (UAL), Veolia Environment (VE), Peabody Energy (BTU), Acco Brands (ABD), Office Depot (ODP) and Colonial Bancgroup (CNB). Join the fastest growing community of small cap investors at Stockhideout.com...	July 22, 2008
Back-to-school shopping season has started	Filed under: Consumer experience, Marketing and advertising, Staples Inc (SPLS)They say it's never too early to start getting ready for the upcoming school year, and Tuesday, Staples Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) announced it was officially kicking off the back-to-school shopping season. This came as a reaction to a survey showing that parents would indeed like to know when they could start finding school supplies on store shelves. And what can be easier than establishing an official start to the back-to-...	July 09, 2008
Amazon.com (AMZN) to stock office supplies	Filed under: Amazon.com (AMZN), Staples Inc (SPLS), Options, Technical AnalysisAmazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) shares are falling today after the company announced this morning that it has opened an office supplies division designed to compete with Staples Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) and the like. Evidently, investors aren't too excited by the Amazon's entry into this already struggling portion of the retail sector. If you think this stock won't be rising too far in the coming months, then it could be a good ...	June 24, 2008
Staples (SPLS) buyout of Corporate Express approved by EU	Filed under: Deals, Staples Inc (SPLS), Options, Technical Analysis, PoliticsStaples (NASDAQ: SPLS) shares are falling today after the European Commission approved SPLS's $2.7 billion acquisition of Dutch office supply company Corporate Express NV. The transaction has already received regulatory approval in the U.S. and Canada. If you think this stock won't be rising too far in the coming months, then it could be a good time to look at a bearish hedged play on SPLS. After hitting a one-year l...	June 18, 2008
Media Digest 6/18/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg	According to Reuters, Staple (SPLS) has received EU approval for a takeover of Corporate Express. Reuters writes that DreamWorks is in conversations with... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...	June 18, 2008
Analyst initiations: ALD, ZIXI and SPLS	Filed under: Analyst reports, Staples Inc (SPLS), Analyst initiationsMOST NOTEWORTHY: Allied Capital, ZIX Corp and Staples were today's noteworthy initiations: Oppenheimer believes Allied Capital's (NYSE:ALD) dividend is sustainable and that the equity portion of its portfolio will drive outsized returns once market conditions return to normalcy. Shares were initiated with a Perform rating. ThinkPanmure believes ZIX Corp (NASDAQ:ZIXI) has a large opportunity in e-prescribing encryp...	June 12, 2008
Price/Volume Block Surge: Staples Inc. (SPLS)	Staples Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) is seeing a surge in trading this morning after the company finally reached a deal to secure its acquisition of Corporate Express (NYSE: CXP) this morning. After about 25 minutes of trading Staples has seen more than 3.4 million shares trade hands, which is almost half of the average 8 million shares daily trading volume. One alert flag that really threw up the volume was an increase in the block volume. There were two huge blocks of stock that went off this mornin...	June 11, 2008

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