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...The settlement with 33 states and Puerto Rico will resolve one of the biggest legal threats facing Juul, in which Altria has a 35 per cent stake....
...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....
...Yet, as Charles Fishman wrote in The Wal-Mart Effect in 2006, Walmart derives all of its impact from us, “from our willingness to open our wallets, just a few dollars at a time . . ....
...Alphabet first claimed success with Loon after a hurricane knocked out communications in Puerto Rico, though it continued to face difficulties with controlling the balloons so that they hovered over the...
...Acadia is the biggest behavioural health provider in the world with 585 facilities and about 18,200 beds in 40 US states, Puerto Rico and the UK....
...When Hurricane Maria pulverised Puerto Rico in 2017, he delivered more than 3.7m meals across the stricken island — often putting the combined emergency relief of the far larger Federal Emergency Management...
...It currently runs 860 stores across the US and Puerto Rico and said on Thursday it planned to close another 27 stores this year....
...In the hour-long podcast, Mr Paulson touched on topics including his bet on Puerto Rico as a tax haven, his support for US President Donald Trump, his push for the government to privatise Fannie Mae and...
...The New York Federal Reserve has frozen new Puerto Rico offshore banking account approvals amid federal money laundering investigations related to the Venezuelan sanctions....
...First, higher wages can make employees more productive — Wal-Mart’s recent wage raises were justified on these grounds....
...Other retailers are following in the footsteps of Amazon Prime Video, with Wal-Mart and Costco reported to be trying to beef up their online channels....
...Elsewhere on Monday, -- How the vultures ate Toys R Us -- The geo-political costs of Brexit -- This is fine, totally fine -- The intellectual we deserve -- WeWork as a big, happy family -- Puerto...
...Petsmart currently operates more than 1,500 stores in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico....
...Loon proved itself after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year, when the company said its balloons were used to deliver internet access to 100,000 people until service on the ground could be restored....
...Another Muskian intervention saw crates of his battery packs shipped to Puerto Rico last year after Hurricane Maria left thousands of people without power. In Thailand though, he misstepped....
...Among the companies excluded are groups such as Airbus, Boeing, Japan Tobacco, Rio Tinto and Wal Mart....
...Larry De Shon, the company’s chief executive, said the lowered outlook came in response to several major hurricanes that blew through the US and Puerto Rico, causing “massive devastation”....
...Nordstrom said a string of hurricanes that battered Puerto Rico, Florida and Texas shaved about 4 cents off its earnings....
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...David Meline, Amgen’s chief financial officer, attributed the earnings miss to additional costs related to recovering its plants in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria....
...But the discounting strategies of retailing powers Amazon and Wal-Mart are making it difficult for goods makers to raise prices....
...That could be a nod to recent events in Puerto Rico, where customers were caught out after using loans secured against portfolios of government bonds to buy more government bonds....
...The updates helped allay fears about the financial fallout from the recent string of hurricanes that have battered southeastern US and Puerto Rico and concerns about a price war among airlines....
...Rico and Virgin Islands due to the impact of the a recent string of hurricanes....
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