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Stock buybacks in the U.S. hit their lowest level since 2009 during the latest round of earnings reports, Bloomberg found , even as a pair of Central Ohio companies announced $300 million in stock repurchases.

Eddie Lampert, founder of ESL Investments which has $19.5 billion in assets under management, made big cuts to holdings of CIT Group , Seagate Tech , Big Lots Inc.

Shareholder rights firm Robbins Umeda LLP is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of the law by certain officers and directors at Big Lots, Inc.

A number of other analysts have also recently weighed in on BIG. Analysts at Benchmark Co.

HERNANDO HIGH: The School Advisory Council will meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the media center.

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S&P 500 component Big Lots Inc. reported its results for the first quarter. Big Lots operates as a broadline closeout retailer through its subsidiaries in the United States.

Close-out retailer Big Lots Inc posted a lower-than-expected adjusted profit for the first quarter and forecast earnings that fell well below Wall Street estimates for the current quarter, hurt by declining margins.

A lot of things go down when a high-profile company is in high-profile trouble unlikely entities can arrive with unexpected sums of money and take the company in unpredicatble directions.

S&P 500 component Big Lots, Inc. will unveil its latest earnings on Wednesday, May 23, 2012.

Columbus, Ohio, isn't widely regarded as a center of automotive manufacturing, and rightly so: Of the 10 or so manufacturers that actually proceeded with automobile production in the city, all had disappeared by the mid-1920s and only about four of them built automobiles for more than a couple of years.

Shares of Big Lots opened at 36.21 on Thursday. Big Lots has a one year low of $28.89 and a one year high of $47.22. The company has a market cap of $2.381 billion and a P/E ratio of 12.12. Big Lots last announced its earnings results on Friday, March 2nd.

The Law Firm of Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Launches an Investigation into Possible Breaches of Fiduciary Duty by Big Lots Inc.