Date updated:05-23-2007
From 5-23-07:
No sooner did I ask for it than I got it: Retailers had been the drag.
It made so much sense. Gasoline at $3 and change. People feeling poor. The endless "my house is not going up in price" rap. And the maxed-out credit story that has been around for decades.
What's all of this about? It turns out that much of the weakness we saw in mainstream retailers was weather- and calendar-related. Now we are back to a little more normal situation, and while it's not great, it isn't as bad as the stocks indicate.

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TGT
Target Cp - $47.70
- -0.27%
- $46.92
Now Target (TGT), which had been one of the bad ones, pulls a BUD (meaning a company that we thought was doing badly that is actually optimistic, like Anheuser-Busch (BUD)) and says things are good and getting better.

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DKS
Dick's Sporting G - $21.15
- -2.85%
- $20.84
Oh, and it doesn't hurt that Dick's (DKS) gave you a little mojo, too, with an entirely predictable upside surprise that, alas, was just surprising enough to move the stock up sharply.

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JCP
Penney J C Co Hol - $29.57
- -3.49%
- $29.83
My faves (JCP, KSS, SHLD) have truly been held down long enough. Time to buy them, too.

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KSS
Kohls Cp - $54.45
- -1.96%
- $54.40
My faves (JCP, KSS, SHLD) have truly been held down long enough. Time to buy them, too.

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SHLD
Sears Holdings Co - $71.94
- -0.72%
- $70.33
My faves (JCP, KSS, SHLD) have truly been held down long enough. Time to buy them, too.
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