The same woman who played a starring role in the fall of former Rep. Anthony Weiner last August has targeted Target Corp.
As a result, Target Corp. offers an above-market dividend yield of 2.1%.
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In 2010, Target Corp. came under intense fire after Minnesota campaign disclosure laws revealed that it had given a contribution on behalf of Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer.
Best Buy "did not go deep enough discounting in TVs on Black Friday, " David Strasser of Janney Montgomery Scott said in a note to investors, adding, "We believe the mass merchants, " particularly Target Corp.
Among the largest underlying components of XLY, in trading today Amazon.com Inc. ( NASD: AMZN) is down about 0.4%, News Corp ( NASD: NWSA) is off about 1.2%, and Target Corp ( NYSE: TGT) is lower by about 0.2%.
The cities' economies have been something of the golden children of the Midwest, outperforming many regions that rely more heavily on manufacturing, as their mix of industries include financial services, health care and retailers such as Target Corp.
Among the largest underlying components of SPLV, in trading today AutoZone, Inc. ( NYSE: AZO) is up about 0.4%, Dollar Tree, Inc. ( NASD: DLTR) is up about 0.6%, and Target Corp ( NYSE: TGT) is lower by about 0.1%.
Among the largest underlying components of VIG, in trading today International Business Machines Corp. ( NYSE: IBM) is up about 0.1%, Medtronic, Inc. ( NYSE: MDT) is up about 0.2%, and Target Corp ( NYSE: TGT) is lower by about 0.2%.
Among the largest underlying components of XLY, in trading today Time Warner Inc ( NYSE: TWX) is down about 0.1%, Ford Motor Co. ( NYSE: F) is down about 0.8%, and Target Corp ( NYSE: TGT) is higher by about 0.4%.
Holding shares in an acquisition target provides the most upside, as shareholders of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan ( POT) and 3PAR ( PAR) can attest.
Beleaguered banking giant Bank of America Corp. (BAC) was also a popular put target on Friday, relatively speaking.
FORBES: Puts Popular on Apple, Bank of America, Netflix, Amazon.com, and Citigroup
The store could also stoke more interest in developing software for Mac computers, which have not been as attractive a target for independent software makers as the bigger market of PCs that run Microsoft Corp.
Their target: the Maikuben coal mine in northern Kazakhstan, owned by the American firm AES Corp.
Executives also set a target of 10% annual revenue growth for the company, adding that it will diversify VF Corp.
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