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...Both fairs have the same owner, Merchandise Mart Properties Inc....
...The case is the country’s worst consumer products scandal, with the fatal disinfectants linked to the deaths of 92 people — primarily children and women....
...Margins squeeze hurts growth Yet the firms with which we spoke are not yet at crisis point. 92.2 per cent said they are still able to use retained earnings to make debt repayments, though this is becoming...
...Starbucks’ ranking in this index (42 of 160) is a marked improvement on the last index (92 of 100)....
...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....
...(WSJ) “The National Labor Relations Board said it is prepared to file complaints alleging Wal-Mart violated workers’ rights to protest—unless Wal-Mart and the parties settle matters first.”...
...lobbying India’s Cabinet approved a retired judge to probe claims that Wal-Mart Stores Inc....
...(Financial Times) COMMENT AND CURIOS: - How Wal-Mart got its foot in the door of India’s retail market. (Reuters) - Some Greek hospitals can’t afford gloves, gowns or alcohol wipes....
...Li & Fung, a supplier for Wal-Mart, rose 1.6%. Korea Gas jumped 6% after a report it discovered gas in Mozambique....
...Wal-Mart may open India retail stores Wal-Mart and Carrefour may gain access to the retail market of the world’s second most-populous country after an Indian government panel was said to have recommended...
...Among the mid-caps, retailer Game Group was up 3.4 per cent to 92½p after Investec Securities upgraded to “buy”....
...Futures on the S&P500 Index added 0.1% after the gauge climbed 0.7% on Thursday as better-than-estimated earnings from Wal-Mart overshadowed an unexpected decline in retail sales....
...It said in January that the number of its workers with healthcare coverage for 2009 had increased from 92.7 per cent in 2008 to 94.5 per cent with 51.8 per cent covered by its own benefits plan....
...Wal-Mart’s shares gained 3.7 per cent to $49.92. The optimism came after the market sold off last week following data showing retail sales fell in April....
...Shares in Intel rose 1.3 per cent to $15.92 while Wind River soared 47.4 per cent to $11.63....
...With 91.1 per cent of the votes counted, Mauricio Funes, candidate for the left-wing Farabundo Mart National Liberation front (FMLN) was in the lead with 51.3 per cent, according to preliminary results...
...But the increase in positive market sentiment still helped the company’s shares advance by 3.9 per cent to $92,400....
...Its shares fell 11.7 per cent to $25.92. Abbott Laboratories also fell despite reporting increased profits....
...The highest-priced stocks: IBM (IBM) = $81.98 Exxon (XOM) = $76.29 Chevron (CHV) = $68.31 P&G (PG) = $57.34 McDonalds (MCD) = $57.07 J&J (JNJ) = $56.75 3M (MMM) = $53.92 Wal-Mart (WMT) = $50.56 Related...
...Genentech’s stock rose 1.9 per cent to $93.92....
...Circuit City’s shares gained over 10 per cent in after hours trading on the news, to $1.92, after earlier closing in New York down over 5 per cent at $1.70....
...At the end of the quarter, Circuit City’s cash position deterioriated sharply, with $92.5m of cash, down from $424.4m last year....
...Apple gained 6.1 per cent to $99.72 on reports that Wal-Mart would sell its iPhone for as little as $99....
...Wal-Mart climbed 4.5 per cent to $52.92 after investors appeared to welcome Lee Scott’s replacement as chief executive with Mike Duke, head of its international operation....
...Buyers “come to us becausewe provide credit”, saysSkip Falgout, chairman of America’s Car-Mart which, with 92 outlets and 36,000 customers, is the biggest publicly traded group in the sector....
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