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Family Dollar Stores

The owner of more than 7,200 discount stores, fell the most in over six months after cutting its fiscal 2012 forecast. Family Dollar Stores’ earnings this year will be $3.60 to $3.70 per share, the North Carolina chain said. Analysts were expecting $3.66 per share, on average. Third-quarter net income was $124.5 million, or $1.06 per share, up from $111.1 million, or 91 cents, a year earlier.

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