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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Sears Holding Posts Loss

Sears Holdings Corp reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss Tuesday as sales fell at its US Kmart and Sears Roebuck divisions and said it would close additional stores. The loss was $146 million, or $1.16 a share, for the third quarter ended Nov. 1, compared with profit of $4 million, or 3 cents a share, a year earlier.

US sales at stores open at least a year declined 11% at Sears and 7% at Kmart.

Sears Holdings is now trading at 33.00; it was trading above $100 as recently as two months ago. Merging Kmart and Sears Roebuck was a marriage made in hell from the beginning.
Posted by ALD at 9:26 AM

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