Hints and tips:
...The rightwing pundit Dinesh D’Souza put it more bluntly: “Walmart has gone woke”. I first came to Bentonville in 1999, when Walmart bid for the UK’s Asda grocery chain....
...If there was someplace else I wanted to go, I’d go there. This is the pleasure palace here — you’re sitting in it now....
...It’d be interesting to see what Mr Carney’s parliamentary interrogators thought of that....
...If they were, they’d certainly do well in the empathy ranking,” says Prof Palmer. Many top-ranked companies are not only US-based, but also built by charismatic leaders....
...“There are people out there . . . who are waiving proof of income, and just doing a few things that we’d never do,” sighed Charles Bradley, chief executive officer at Consumer Portfolio Services, an Irvine...
...The appeal of Spotify is that it offers 95 per cent of all the music you’d ever want to hear....
...Financial Times) Bullard warns on low rates stance (Financial Times) Unless Congress acts, the feds will say that all large financial firms pose a ‘systemic’ risk and need bank-like regulation (WSJ) Wal-Mart...
...Gain a QFII licence, which gives a foreign investor access to buying Chinese equities, and you’d better use it. If you’d don’t fill your quota, somebody will ask you why not....
...Wal-Mart is one of several buyers who welcomed the stability that the pact afforded. And Mexican officials have no intention of sitting on their hands....
...As the familiar signage of Japan Inc slipped by (Yoshinoya, 7-11, Curry House CoCo, Lawson, Doutor, Family Mart, Mos Burger, Yoshinoya, 7-11, and so on) I resisted the urge to tap away at my phone....
...“If I’m honest, when I was thinking about buying it, I’d always looked at the annual meeting and thought it seemed like a really good time.”...
...Jobs at Wal-Mart and McDonald’s pay twice the federal minimum wage. The city has revenue to burn. “How long do you think it will last?”...
...” … A new owner seems to be in the offing for New York’s Armory Show, which belongs to MMPI (Merchandise Mart Properties Inc)....
...Wal-Mart’s Mexico unit could be targeted by short sellers on Monday, says Reuters, after a report in the New York Times that the parent company shut down an internal investigation into whether bribery was...
...“I’d guess that over half the cigarettes smoked in Harehills are illegal,” said an officer from HM Revenue & Customs, which recently conducted several raids in the area....
...Other companies that will be represented at Friday’s meeting include Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson, Caterpillar, United Technologies, Wal-Mart, General Electric, Procter & Gamble, Cisco and Eli Lilly...
...I could go on, but with more than 25 board members, if you’re interested I’d suggest you Google it....
...“Typically we’d arrive on big deals just after management had announced that ‘two plus two would equal 5.5’. Of course in the end, they found it was lucky if they could scratch to 2.5.”...
...On Tuesday night Mr Obama hosted 17 chief executives for dinner at the White House, including Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric, Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase and Wal-Mart’s Michael Duke....
...(H/T Bryce Elder) Related links: Wal-Mart Looks to Bolster Suppliers – Wall Street Journal...
...Between 1998 and 2005 he worked for Wal-Mart’s international division holding a range of commercial positions, rising to Chief Operating Officer in Germany....
...FT: I’d just like to come back to this notion that these products are not in and of themselves, at least some of them, dangerous. Haven’t we seen the contrary? CD: I think in fact not....
...Retailer Wal-Mart, for example, employs older staff in its shops....
...But others, such as Marcel Breuer and Mart Stam’s tubular chairs, do not....
...Yet Benedict has bigger fish to fry than Wal-Mart, say, or Nike. The encyclical is not anti-global or anti-capitalist....
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