This strong financial position has buoyed XLNX to a gain of more than 25% on a year-to-date basis, pushing the shares past the outperforming COMP's loss of about 7%.
And a similar comparison of Wal-Mart's comp sales to the Conference Board's consumer confidence reading showed almost no correlation between those two measurements either.
Workman's comp is generally a state issue as opposed to a federal issue.
Again, this pair seems to exist for purely aesthetic purposes -- if you're the button-pushing type, this is arguably the most infuriating device money can buy -- but it may well help cure you of that BlackBerry thumb that had you on worker's comp for much of the early '00s.
Jeffrey Korte, head of Florida's workers' comp fraud bureau, says his 26 investigators can't keep up.
During the first four months of 2006, for example, each month brought a minimum 6% hike in consumer spending from the corresponding month in 2005, while Wal-Mart's year-over-year comp sales were bouncing from as low as 0.9% to as high as 4.3%.
But industry analysts' obsession with comp-store sales continues to keep Wal-Mart's stock down while playing havoc with the industry.
Best Buy noted that in U.S. outlets it saw a low double-digit comp stores sales decline in TVs and entertainment hardware and software, with TVs seeing a low-double digit decline in units and a mid-single digit price decline.
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No comp rooms: every occupied room has a value, and if it's not paid for, the cost gets billed against something as an expense, which has to be justified on the reports.
Comp store sales were down 1.4% overall, flat for the U.S. market and down 6.4% for international.
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Comp store sales were down 0.3%, including a 0.3% increase in the U.S., and a 1.5% drop internationally.
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