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(Redirect in 11 seconds) Skip this ad » [#] Bulletin Investor Alert New York Markets Open in: Indications Analyst Ratings EarningsWatch Home News Viewer Markets Investing Trading Deck Personal Finance Retirement Economy Industries Portfolio Watchlist Alerts Games SEARCH Aerospace Airlines Banks Biotech Cars Computers & Electronics Energy Food & Beverage Internet Media Metals Pharma Retail Software Telecom Retail Costco earnings, sales rise above estimates LONDON (MarketWatch) - Costco Wholesale Corp. said Wednesday fiscal fourth-quarter net earnings were $697 million, or $1.58 a share, up 13% from $617 million, or $1.40 a share, in the same period a year ago. Total revenue was $35.52 billion, up from $32.49 billion in the year-earlier period. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected earnings of $1.52 a share, on revenue of $35.47 billion. Costco said fourth-quarter total company same-sales rose 6%. 3:28 a.m. Today 3:28 a.m. Oct. 8, 2014 Potter defends Fed exit plan Simon Potter, the man responsible for carrying out the Federal Reserve’s exit plan once the central bank decides to lift interest rates, thinks the rocket will get off the ground just fine when the time comes. 6:10 p.m. Oct. 7, 2014 Split between hawks, doves to be evident in Fed minutes Fed minutes will show the dissension in the ranks at the central bank. 4:55 p.m. Oct. 7, 2014 Retail Headlines Yum Brands profit, outlook miss estimates NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Yum Brands Inc. , the parent of Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut, said Tuesday that its third-quarter profit rose to $404 million, or 89 cents a share, from $152 million, or 33 cents, a year earlier. Total revenue fell 3% to $3.35 billion. Excluding one-time items, the company said it earned 87 cents a share. That missed the 88-cent average estimate of analysts surveyed by FactSet. Sales also missed estimates of $3.37 billion. Yum, whose China sales fell 9% after an issue with a meat supplier, said it's difficult to forecast the exact trajectory of its sales there. It forecast 2014 per-share profit to rise between 6% and 10%. Analysts surveyed by FactSet were looking for profit to increase 13% for the year on a per-share basis. Yum, which closed down 2.3% in regular trading, dipped 0.6% after hours. 4:31 p.m. Oct. 7, 2014 United Rentals, Best Buy, GM lead the way lower SodaStream and Container Store are both down sharply. 4:25 p.m. Oct. 7, 2014 Holiday retail-sales forecasts are all over the map Retailers are hoping the holiday season can compensate for a disappointing first half and back-to-school season. So far, the forecasts paint a mixed picture. 3:44 p.m. Oct. 7, 2014 Fed's Dudley: Forecasts of mid-2015 liftoff 'reasonable' WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The consensus view that the Fed will be able to begin raising short-term interest rates around the middle of next year "seems like a reasonable view to me," said William Dudley, the president of the New York Fed, on Tuesday. At the moment, a rate hike would still be "premature" given that "the labor market still has too much slack and the inflation rate is too low," Dudley said in a speech at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Dudley, the president of the New York Fed, said growth should average around 3% through the end of 2015 but chances of anything stronger were "relatively low" given several negative factors including sluggish consumer spending and the stronger dollar. Dudley said he agreed with the inflation forecast of the Congressional Budget Office, which calls for inflation to rise to a 1.9% annual rate by the fourth quarter of 2015. 3:00 p.m. Oct. 7, 2014 The new AIG lawsuit should enrage every American taxpayer The insurer’s former CEO says a life-saving bailout cheated shareholders, writes David Weidner. 2:58 p.m. Oct. 7, 2014 What to expect from J.C. Penney’s analyst day J.C. Penney Co. is expected to update investors on the progress of its turnaround at its first analyst meeting in two years on Wednesday.. 2:43 p.m. Oct. 7, 2014 What to watch for in PepsiCo’s earnings While industrywide beverage sales soften, PepsiCo is expected to be buoyed by its robust snacks business. 2:42 p.m. Oct. 7, 2014 Newscast: Stocks slip, SodaStream sales lose fizz Stocks move lower. SodaStream, The Container Store, Christopher & Banks gloomy ahead of earnings. 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