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...There’s a lot of companies in the double-B category that were downgrades from triple-B. They’re better companies. It’s a different high-yield than, say, 10 years ago ....
...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 . . ....
...Walmart said it would remain an open platform, meaning it will still source goods from a variety of shops....
...But the discounting strategies of retailing powers Amazon and Wal-Mart are making it difficult for goods makers to raise prices....
...Starting in February 2018, the company will shorten its name from “Wal-mart Stores, Inc.” to “Walmart Inc.”....
...The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was also once just an obscure statute, until companies such as Wal Mart started to face nine figure compliance costs....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average, however, was largely flat at 23,387, held back by early losses for Nike and Wal-Mart....
...Alice Walton was the highest placed woman, with a net worth of $38.2bn, ranking the heir to the Wal-Mart Stores fortune at 13 – the same position as last year....
...climate deal exit) Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company (left after Paris climate deal exit) Rich Lesser, President and CEO, Boston Consulting Group Doug McMillon, President and CEO, Wal-Mart...
...Walmart’s ecommerce sales rose 20.6 per cent in the third quarter, in a sign that its strategy to play catch up in capturing online growth is starting to pay off....
...Over the last two years Whole Foods’ sales figures have been languishing due to increasing competition in specialty foods from the likes of Kroger, Wal-Mart and Costco....
...Wal-Mart owns Asda; Apple claims to have 6500 employees in the UK; BMW still has significant operations associated with its Mini brand; AT&T claims to employ almost 1500 people in the UK....
...The companies include Airbus, Boeing, Philip Morris, Rio Tinto and Wal Mart. Duke did not immediately respond to a request for comment....
...Last week Asda, which is owned by US retail giant Wal-Mart, unveiled its steepest quarterly sales decline on record....
...But the S&P 500 consumer staples index fell 1.5 per cent following a sharp sell-off in shares of Hormel Foods and Wal-Mart....
...But that obscures a sharp divergence between many blue-chip companies. Here’s a look at the top, and bottom, performers as the year draws to a close....
...- Wal-Mart heir Christy Walton is $27bn poorer than everyone thought. - The Uberization of Money. - “Let me tell you a story of the battle between the ‘inflation targeters’ and the ‘accelerationists...
...Mr Clarke had previously hoped that a 4.7 per cent decline in sales during the second quarter of 2015 would mark a “nadir” for the company, which is owned by US retail giant Wal-Mart....
...If $100bn of equity were put in with another $200bn of debt, Wal-Mart’s market value would be $100bn. But it would not be accurate to then say that Walmart is a third the size of Amazon....
...So why are shares in Walmart de Mexico so expensive?...
...carrying higher costs. 2) How can Wal-Mart afford to have such low prices and still be so profitable?...
...Meanwhile, the company’s R&D as a percentage of sales, which has been falling since 2001, is creeping ever lower....
...Wal-Mart Stores (Retail) 48. Home Depot (Consumer Goods) 49. Yahoo! (Technology) 50. Morgan Stanley (Finance) 51. Discovery Communications (Media) 52. Colgate-Palmolive (Consumer Goods) 53....
...Shanghai stocks surge 24% Russia equities jump 33% Best performing mega-caps: Gazprom (21%), BASF (19%); worst: Wal-Mart, HSBC (both -6%) Portugal CDS narrows 76pps, Greece widens 876pps ECB goes “...
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