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Wal-Mart Stores Inc has seen business improve at U.S. stores over the last four weeks, but it is too soon to change the company's forecasts, the head of its U.S. business said on Thursday.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it is increasing its annual dividend nearly 21 percent, citing its ability to generate cash in a fiscal year that disappointed investors with weak U.S. sales.

Wal-Mart Store Inc said it is increasing its annual dividend nearly 21 percent, citing its sales and profit performance and ability to generate cash in the fiscal year just ended.

Best Buy and Wal-mart both put the iPad 2 on their retail sites.

Several top retailers posted bigger-than-expected sales gains for February, a show of strength that could dissipate in March as a late Easter and rising gasoline prices take their toll.

February sales at Costco Wholesale Corp and BJ's Wholesale Club Inc surpassed Wall Street's expectations, driven by higher gasoline prices and shoppers' focus on bargains.

Concerns that rising oil prices could hurt economic recovery prompted investors on Tuesday to sell stocks and hedge against further declines.

Stocks dropped on Tuesday as investors worried that rising oil prices could choke off the economic recovery, with equities looking to keep taking their lead from oil prices in the near term.

Toys R Us Inc is looking to raise around $800 million in an initial public offering in April, though a final decision has not been reached, the New York Post said on Saturday.

Shares of Wal-Mart Stores fell nearly 4 percent in early trade after the world’s largest retailer a seventh straight quarterly decline in U.S. comparable-store sales, saying some of the pricing and merchandising issues ran deeper than it initially expected.

World’s largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc reported a 1.8 percent fall in U.S. comparable-store sales for the fourth quarter even as it posted a 27 percent rise in quarterly profit.

China has fined retail giants Carrefour SA and Wal-Mart Stores Inc a combined 9.5 million yuan ($1.5 million) for manipulating product prices in some of their stores, the country's top economic planner said on Tuesday.

Amid growing competition from non-banks, BB&T bank, which has locations primarily in the southeastern and mid-Atlantic U.S., is now offering a new prepaid checking account which comes with a Visa-branded debit card.

Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co said it filed a motion seeking approval to close 32 stores in six states as the bankrupt grocer tries to fend off growing pressure in the low-margin supermarket business.

Stocks finished narrowly mixed as investors appeared to be underwhelmed by President Obama’s budget proposal, while unrest in the Middle East has spread to Iran and even Bahrain.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc named Cindy Davis as executive vice president of a new team that will study customer trends, an appointment that comes as the world's largest retailer tries to reinvigorate U.S. sales and continue its worldwide expansion.

South Africa's Competition Commission has recommended that retail group Wal-Mart's proposed acquisition of 51 percent of equity in Massmart be approved without conditions, the two companies said in a statement on Saturday.

Whole Foods Market Inc raised its 2011 profit outlook after a sharp acceleration in sales, quashing fears of a growth slowdown and underscoring how better-off U.S. shoppers are spending more freely.

BJ's Wholesale Club Inc may put itself up for sale, under pressure from a private equity firm that may make a hostile bid, and its shares jumped more than 13 percent.

BJ's Wholesale Club Inc said it may put itself up for sale, under pressure from a private equity firm that may make a hostile bid.

BJ's Wholesale Club Inc said it may put itself up for sale, under pressure from a private equity firm that may make a hostile bid.