Market Update Close: For the third straight session, the market endured a post-lunch plunge that erased intraday gains that left the indices submerged. While the session was launched on solid footing - as a stream of September same store sales data, a host of positive earnings reports, GE's upbeat guidance, and easing energy prices injected some reassurance into an inflation-fixated and interest-rate wary market - gains were ultimately unsustainable. Although his remarks were of no surprise, reasserted inflation-related comments from Dallas Fed President Fisher exacerbated the sell-off that traders,...
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1:44 pm PT Dollar Tree reaffirms Q3 sales guidance; provides Hurricane updateþDLTR :Co reaffirms Q3 sales guidance of $775-800 mln, vs Reuters consensus of $785.8 mln. Co stated while its Q3 sales did not appear to be materially impacted by these storms, fourteen stores sustained heavy damages. These damages include inventory losses, leasehold and equipment destruction, and significant structural repairs. The amount of loss is estimated to be in the range of $4.5-5.5 mln, or approx $0.03 per share, most of which is likely to be incurred in Q3.
1:32 pm PT Siebert Financial comments on stock price declineþSIEB 2.55 -0.40:Co issues a statement regarding today's activity in its stock, stating "the prime reason for the activity in the stock today is that a former employee exercised stock options and sold the resulting common stock at the market." Siebert knows of no other reason for the decline in today's stock price.