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...Utah’s treasurer Marlo Oaks said he liquidated $100mn in BlackRock funds, and Arkansas reportedly pulled $125mn this year....
...The Arkansas-headquartered company brought in about $172bn in consolidated net sales in the three months to January....
...The Arkansas-based company’s results are closely followed as a gauge of the mood of US consumers, who have proven relatively resilient in the face of persistent inflation....
...Arkansas-based Walmart was one of several large US retailers to report quarterly results this week, but the overall picture of the American consumer they have painted is mixed and blurred by company-specific...
...Nine states, including Arkansas, where online betting is legal, provided no funding at all to problem gambling services last year. Even the most basic interventions are in short supply....
...John Randal Tyson’s arrest in Arkansas came just weeks after his promotion sparked concern from analysts and investors over the depth of his experience....
...By the time Sam Walton opened his first Wal-mart in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962, his playbook to build a global retail giant was already drafted....
...Republicans in Texas have targeted BlackRock as “hostile” to fossil fuel, and the state treasurers of Louisiana, West Virginia and Arkansas have collectively pulled out about $700mn of investments....
...“I flew down to Arkansas really out of curiosity. I thought it might just be a one-day field trip,” she says....
...week at the Walmart Supercenter closest to the retailer’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas....
...The Arkansas-based retailer predicted net sales for the current financial year will rise “about” 3 per cent in constant currency measures, the company said on Thursday, ahead of analysts’ estimates....
...The free museum’s location in Bentonville, Arkansas, is also the headquarters of the US retailer....
...But a near-total block has already taken effect in Arkansas, while a six-week ban is in force in Tennessee....
...That is a 79 per cent increase from 2019 and a leg up from the $13.7bn of online sales reported in 2016. Shares in Arkansas-based Walmart have more than doubled over the period....
...José Romero, the chair of the committee and director at the Arkansas Department of Health, said doctors would be able to make the risks clear to recipients....
...An Associated Press report suggested that two stores in Texas, one in Utah and another near the company’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas would be among the first....
...While Walmart is retaining an investment in the business, the Arkansas-based company’s £500m stake is classed as “senior equity”....
...To some extent, Walmart was able to use its firepower after it first acquired a minority stake in Seiyu in 2002, and immediately attempted to export an “everyday low price” strategy first developed in Arkansas...
...Yet the Arkansas-based chain, better known for selling cereal, soap and shoes in the suburbs than for ventures in digital media, is preparing to invest billions of dollars in TikTok....
...Over two decades later, the Arkansas retail beast’s price-undercutting methods have still failed to trump Tesco as it continues to jostle Sainsbury’s for second place....
...The Arkansas-based juggernaut was at the time opening enough new floorspace each year to occupy the entire store estate of J Sainsbury or Tesco, and its presence threatened to shake up the UK market with...
...Mr Tyson’s grandfather, also named John, established the company in 1935, raising chicks and grinding feed in the north-west Arkansas town of Springdale....
...(Forbes) News round-up eBay merges classifieds business with Adevinta in $9.2bn deal (FT) Credit Suisse is set to score a smaller role on Ant’s mega IPO (BBG) Arkansas teachers fund sues Allianz over...
...Poultry plants, centred in the southern “broiler belt” stretching between Arkansas and the Carolinas, have not been hit as hard by coronavirus, said Terrence O’Keefe of Watt Global Media, a poultry trade...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 8 2020. @2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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