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To: Smiling Bob who wrote (14872)	12/10/2008 1:23:35 PM
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CLF - doubled up @ 27.4

To: Smiling Bob who wrote (14872)	12/26/2008 10:17:09 AM
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AMZN -52.68 back in puts Selling tons of stuff, but at what price? ---- UPDATE 2-Amazon claims record holiday orders in '08 season Fri Dec 26, 2008 9:41am EST (Adds details on orders, analyst quote, updates shares) NEW YORK, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) on Friday reported its best holiday sales season yet, even as sales and traffic at U.S. store chains were the weakest in decades, sending its shares up nearly 4 percent. Analysts have pointed to Amazon as a rare bright spot in this year's holiday shopping season due to its scale and flexibility, as retailers try to outdo each other with deep discounts to lure consumers during a recession. Online sales were also helped by winter storms that hit large sections of the United States on the last major shopping weekend before Christmas. In a release titled "Amazon.com's 14th holiday season is best ever," the company said more than 6.3 million items were ordered on its site worldwide for the peak shopping day of Dec. 15, amounting to 72.9 items ordered per second. On its peak day, it shipped more than 5.6 million units. However, the company gave no financial details regarding the sales, such as how its margins fared with the discounts seen across the retail sector. Stifel Nicolaus analyst Scott Devitt said Amazon's day of peak orders represented a 17 percent rise from a year ago, while its peak shipments represented an increase of 44 percent. He rates the share a "buy" with a $61 price target. Amazon shipped merchandise to more than 210 countries, and said it shipped more than 99 percent of orders on time for holiday deadlines. Amazon shares rose 3.6 percent to $53.31. (Reporting by Michele Gershberg; Editing by Derek Caney and Steve Orlofsky) © Thomson Reuters 2008. All rights reserved. Users may download and print extracts of content from this website for their own personal and non-commercial use only. Republication or redistribution of Thomson Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters and its logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Thomson Reuters group of companies around the world.