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Costco, Not Whole Foods, Said To Sell Most Organics

While Whole Foods Market (WFM) has been fending off rising competition from the likes of Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM) and Kroger (KR) hawking natural and organic food, membership warehouse Costco (COST) might have stealthily pulled ahead in organic sales. Costco’s organic food sales are at a run rate of $4 billion, according to BMO Capital Markets analyst Kelly Bania, up from about $3 billion just six to nine months ago and “possibly now already

Bristol Sinks On Lung Cancer Data; Merck Up On 2 Trials

Big pharmas Merck (MRK) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) released new data on their hot new immunotherapy cancer drugs Friday afternoon, but the results sent their stocks in opposite directions. Bristol’s stock dropped 6.6% after the release of two late-breaker abstracts on studies of its drug Opdivo, a PD-1 inhibitor, for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting that opened Friday and will continue through the weekend. The study

EBay Breaks Out As E-Commerce Rivalry Heats Up

Shares of eBay (EBAY) are breaking out in the stock market today. The online marketplace currently has an IBD Composite Rating of 92 out of 99 and has seen increasing Relative Strength over the past few weeks. EBay climbed 1.2% to 61.30 in late afternoon trade Friday to a new high, breaking out of a flat base with a 61.03 buy point. Volume is on track to be the highest in at least a month. Shares are in buy range to 64.08. The online sales game is