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Sell puts on the world's largest retailer to buy its resurgent stock if they go on sale.

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SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has eclipsed Wal-Mart heiress Christy Walton to become the world’s wealthiest woman, according to an annual index by Business Review Weekly. A preview of the respected BRW Rich 200 list, published Wednesday, put the mining tycoon’s personal fortune at Aus$29.17 billion (US$28.48 billion), a figure that sees her outstrip ...

(Reuters) - CalPERS, the biggest U.S. public pension fund, said on Wednesday it plans to withhold votes for nine Wal-Mart Stores Inc board members amid allegations that the retailer's top brass failed to adequately investigate widespread bribery in Mexico.

Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart has eclipsed Wal-Mart heiress Christy Walton to become the world's wealthiest woman, according to an annual index by Business Review Weekly.

BRW claims Gina Rinehart has moved ahead of Wal-Mart widow Christy Walton to be the world's richest woman.  

WASHINGTON -- Two Democratic congressmen are investigating whether the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's tenacious attack on a key anti-bribery statute has less to do with high-minded economic principles and more to do with the fact that nearly one in four board members of the Chamber's "legal reform" arm represents a company that has been caught up in a bribery investigation itself.Top Walmart execut...

Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) stock has been on a roll since the company posted better than expected first quarter earnings last week. Today, they touched a new 10-year high of $63.95. Wal-Mart stock wobbled a few weeks ago on a New York Times investigation said top company officials had failed to pursue bribery allegations. Today CalSTRS, [...]

One of nation's largest pension funds to vote its 5.3M shares against Wal-Mart directors' nominees at annual shareholders' meeting.

A lawsuit brought by shareholders in Wal-Mart Stores against the company’s executives and directors is tailor-made for the kind of wrongdoing being alleged.

Un informe del NYT reveló sobornos por hasta 24 millones de dólares en la matriz mexicana de la minorista

NEW YORK (AP) -- Two leading proxy adviser firms are telling Wal-Mart shareholders to vote against certain board members up for re-election next week, saying the directors neglected their responsibility in an alleged bribery scheme in Wal-Mart's Mexican operations....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- On the surface, a big Wal-Mart store might seem out of place in the midst of the old-fashioned curio shops, the little dim sum eateries and the colorful lanterns and pagodas that make up one of the oldest Chinatowns in the United States....

Après des années d'austérité, l'Allemagne renoue avec les hausses de salaires: 800.000 employés de la métallurgie du Bade-Wurtemberg (sud-ouest) ont obtenu samedi une augmentation de 4,3% qui va servir de référence pour le secteur dans tout le pays.histoires liéesLes marchés en ordre dispersé, tiraillés entre espoirs et doutesDéçue par Facebook, Wall Street recherche un nouvel élanL´Afrique du ...

Facebook closed its first day of public trading valued at $105.19 billion, making it worth almost exactly as much as PepsiCo, which is valued at…

World’s largest retailer Wal-Mart plans to enter Gujarat through the NRG-rich belt of Gujarat – Anand, also India’s milk capital.

La ganancia de Wal-Mart Stores Inc. registró un crecimiento interanual del 10% en el primer trimestre fiscal, impulsada por ingresos más altos que lo anticipado y por las ventas en las tiendas comparables clave de Estados Unidos, que crecieron por tercer trimestre consecutivo.

NASCAR's most popular driver is also one of its most private.

The U.K.'s dip back into recession has been a blow to most businesses in Britain. But not Wal-Mart Stores.

The 25-year-old woman in Fort Worth, Texas, who will only reveal her name as Jessica, discovered that a mechanic had written 'satanic symbols' beneath her car's engine.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is having a good news/bad news day, writes Angela Moore.

The scope of an investigation into foreign bribery issues seemed to have widened at the retailer, which reported higher-than-expected first-quarter earnings.

Die europäische Schuldenkrise lastet weiter auf den amerikanischen Aktienmärkten. Schwache US-Konjunkturdaten sorgen für eine negative Stimmung unter den Anlegern. Die Aktien von Wal-Mart legen kräftig zu.

Die negativen Vorgaben aus Europa und enttäuschende Arbeitsmarktdaten sorgen zum Handelsauftakt für leichte Abgaben. Die Aktien von Wal-Mart legen nach einem starken Quartalsergebnis kräftig zu.

U.S. stock futures swung between gains and losses as more workers than expected sought unemployment benefits and worries about the weaker euro-zone countries mounted, but Wal-Mart reported strong results.

Wal-Mart Stores a fait état jeudi d'un résultat supérieur aux attentes au titre de son premier trimestre fiscal, portés par les ventes solides de sa filiale américaine. Le numéro un mondial de la distribution, qui a été récemment secoué par des accusations de corruption au Mexique, affiche un...

Der US-Einzelhändler Wal Mart hat zu Jahresbeginn sein Geschäft spürbar ausgebaut. Im Gegensatz zum Schlussquartal 2011 liegt das Unternehmen mit seinen Geschäftszahlen über den Erwartungen. Die Aktie steigt.

World’s largest retailer reports better-than-expected earnings as warm weather and an earlier Easter entice shoppers to spend

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A Wal-Mart customer is recovering after he was bitten by a rattlesnake in a garden department of the chain store.

A shopper was bitten by a rattlesnake in the garden section of a Walmart store.

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) -- A man says he reached down to pick up a stick lying in the gardening aisle of a Wal-Mart in eastern Washington state, only to discover that it was a rattlesnake that then bit his hand....

BrewDog is a spunky craft brewer in Scotland. Diageo is a titanic owner of bar chains, a kind of Wal*Mart of booze. The British Institute of Innkeeping is their mutual trade association. Last Sunday, the BII's independent judges awarded BrewDog a prize for Bar Operator of the Year. When Diageo found out -- just ahead [...]

The tough U.S. anti-bribery law that Wal-Mart may have violated in Mexico has ensnared leading companies from virtually every sector of the economy, as federal prosecutors increasingly punish firms for transgressions such as giving foreign officials computers and shopping bags of cash and improperly accounting for such expenditures in company records. Read full article >>

EN IMAGES - Selon le classement Fortune 500 , Exxon Mobil détrône Wal-Mart et devient la plus grande entreprise américaine en termes de chiffre d'affaires. En tout, les 500 sociétés du palmarès ont cumulé, en 2011, 824,5 milliards de dollars de bénéfices, pulvérisant le record de 2006.Articles en rapportLe culte Warren Buffett

Walmart allegedly covers up millions of dollars in bribes paid to local government officials in Mexico. A former Morgan Stanley executive is convicted of funnelling money to a Chinese official in connection with real-estate investments. The S.E.C. sends “letters of inquiry” to several Hollywood studios, looking into . . .

The US secretary of state is expected to urge Mamata Banerjee to support opening India's retail sector to foreign giants such as Walmart after the West Bengal chief minister opposed the move in the Parliament last year.

NOTHING HAS so changed the face of shopping over the past 25 years than the emergence of “big box retail” stores, often located on the edges of cities and towns and always surrounded by vast surface carparks. Wal-Mart in the US is the most notorious example of this all-consuming genre, but it is also evident in Britain by the proliferation of multiples such as Tesco, which now controls more tha...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EBay Inc and Wal-Mart Stores Inc are developing new Web search engines to better compete against Amazon.com Inc in the fast-growing e-commerce market.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The second largest U.S. public pension fund said on Thursday it had sued current and former executives and board members at Wal-Mart Stores Inc, alleging bribery and a cover-up in the company's expansion in Mexico.

MILEY Cyrus has rescued a puppy found abandoned outside a Walmart store in Los Angeles.

A new mobile shopping service called NetPlenish is announcing today that it has closed a round of $1.9 million in seed funding from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups, Gold Hill Capital, BHV Capital, TEEC Angel Fund, Ludlow Ventures and several angel investors, including its founders. The news was timed alongside the official launch of the company's mobile application, available on both iPhone and And...

Miley and Liam are proud parents to a puppy! They rescued the stray dog, ‘Happy,’ from outside a Walmart — they have such big hearts! Liam Hemsworth was spotted shopping for pet supplies on May 1, and now we know why. He and Miley Cyrus took home a new puppy! Miley, 19, posted pics of [...]

Talk about puppy eyes! This poor pooch was left alone outside of a Walmart today. Thankfully singer Miley Cyrus found him and took him under her wing. Whew! "Yes :( he was...

A major US pension fund will vote against the re-election of Wal-Mart chief executive Mike Duke following allegations the world's biggest retailer failed to properly investigate possible bribery.

Looking like a come-to-life Ganguro Bratz doll, the heir to the lucite throne Courtney Stodden and her creepy queefbag of a husband Doug Hutchison showed the People of Walmart how to truly bring refinement and grace to a big-box store when they shopped at Target in West Hollywood yesterday. Several Target shoppers immediately left after seeing Courtney in the aisles, because they ...

Authorities in the Chinese city of Chongqing, formerly run by Bo Xilai, released two Wal-Mart employees who had been jailed about six months ago over mislabeled pork.

Bernanke-friendly GDP report. Sizing up the Wal-Mart scandal. A growth business gone sour.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Wal-Mart shoppers now will be able to pay cash for online purchases....

Wal-Mart Stores Inc hit back on Wednesday against suggestions that its lobbyists tried to scale back a US anti-bribery law while the company was aware it may have violated the law.

Mexico has launched an investigation into allegations that the Mexican unit of Walmart Stores Inc bribed officials to expand its business there, opening a new front to a widening probe of the world’s largest retailer.  

Mexico's federal anti-corruption agency says it will investigate whether federal officials were involved in the Wal-Mart bribery scandal.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's federal comptroller's office said on Wednesday it would open an investigation into allegations that the Mexican unit of Wal-Mart Stores Inc bribed officials to expand its business in Mexico.

Der US-Konzern Walmart steht unter Verdacht, rund 24 Millionen Dollar Schmiergeld für die Baugenehmigung von Filialen in Mexico gezahlt zu haben. Damit hätte der weltgrößte Einzelhändler gegen das Auslands-Korruptions-Gesetz der USA verstoßen. Die Behörden dort ermitteln bereits.

Shares in Wal-Mart fall another 3% as the supermarket giant moved to limit a bribery scandal in Mexico.

After reports the retailer covered up results of an internal probe proving Mexican officials were bribed, position is created.

The New York Times has revealed that Wal-Mart covered up findings of an internal probe that proved its Mexican subsidiary bribed officials.

Die weltgrößte Supermarktkette Wal-Mart gerät unter Druck. Wegen eines mutmaßlichen Bestechungsskandals in Mexiko will die Regierung in Washington das US-Unternehmen juristisch belangen. Das berichtet die Nachrichtenagentur Bloomberg. Der Fall könnte den Konzern teuer zu stehen kommen.

La mayor cadena minorista del mundo, Wal-Mart, se enfrenta a una larga investigación por presuntos sobornos a las autoridades de México que podría poner en peligro su expansión en ese y en otros países, según coinciden diferentes analistas estadounidenses.

The blockbuster allegations of bribery in Wal-Mart's Mexico operations, already a public relations nightmare for the company, just got a little worse: the issue has now entered the political realm. Two senior Democratic congressmen, Howard Waxman and Elijah Cummings, have announced their intent to launch a probe into the allegations. But that's only part of the company's problem. The siting of...

Here is a company that badly needs a growth story, and international expansion is it

Sus acciones llegaron a caer casi un 5% en Nueva York y casi un 15% en el parqué mexicano

World's largest retailer says it is investigating alleged bribery by managers to secure and expand market presence.

Der umsatzstärkste Einzelhandelskonzern der Welt sieht sich schweren Vorwürfen ausgesetzt: Laut "New York Times" soll Wal-Mart in Mexiko Bestechungsgelder in zweistelliger Millionenhöhe gezahlt haben, um Baugenehmigungen für Filialen zu bekommen.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. today announced that its @WalmartLabs operation is expanding in Bangalore with the hiring of 100 additional developers and a move into a new facility.

NEW YORK  - The convicted bomb-maker in a 2009 plot to cause carnage in New York described Monday how he and a Qaeda handler considered everything from the subway to movie theatres as targets. “We started the conversation on such targets as Walmart, the New York Stock Exchange, Times Square, subways, movie theatres, I believe buses were mentioned too,” Najibullah Zazi said in ...

As many of you know, I am a graduate student. Luckily, I am a graduate student in the biological sciences, which means that while I am going to school, I get a monthly stipend. Also luckily, I go to school in a place like Oklahoma, a state with a relatively low cost of living. Its also lucky that I grew up relatively poor, with a mom who was REALLY GOOD at being poor. Thus I am REALLY GOOD ...

Große Einkaufscenter wie Wal-Mart leiden unter Gewinneinbrüchen. Schuld daran ist nicht die Wirtschaftskrise, sondern das Geschäftsmodell. Statt Massenprodukten ist ein maßgeschneidertes Angebot gefragt.

Three-quarters of the 24,000 shoppers polled by Consumer Reports reported at least one major complaint about the worst-performing chains.

jfruh writes "When tech geeks debate the state of the smartphone world, they usually focus on the iPhone and its high-end Android rivals from the major carriers. But Android is rapidly entering the lower-end world of contractless prepaid phones that you can buy at 7-11 or Wal-Mart. 63 percent of prepaid phones sold in 2011 were smartphones, and while they might not offer cutting-edge hardware o...

LONDON (Reuters) - The maker of the hit mobile game Angry Birds has struck a deal with Wal-Mart to embed clues to a new version of the game in merchandise sold in Wal-Mart stores, hoping to drive Angry Birds fans into the stores, and shoppers to the game.

"I got crazy looks at Target and the gas station, but at Walmart, they didn't blink an eye," the actor notes

Walmart says it will start selling the new iPad at 12:01 a.m. Friday, eight hours before Apple stores open, Bloomberg reports.

UltraViolet lets consumers watch their purchased movies on multiple devices.

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A South African court on Friday largely dismissed an appeal from government and unions to roll back approval for Wal-Mart's $2.4 billion acquisition of Massmart , ending months...

The "16 and Pregnant" star arrested after she stole a pregnancy test from a Georgia Walmart has announced she is not pregnant, TMZ reported Saturday.

You may not be truly shocked by any single statistic in Tracie McMillan's new book, "The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table" -- but by the time you finish reading, you'll definitely feel the impact of her cumulative case.McMillan spent months exploring the American food system from three different angles: picking produce in California fie...

Die Lufthansa kostet der Streik der Vorfeld-Kontrolleure am Frankfurter Flughafen jeden Tag einen Millionenbetrag. Am fünften Tag des Arbeitskampfs fallen bisher weniger Flüge aus als zuletzt.Mehr zum ThemaUS-Konsumaktie - Wal-Mart profitiert von KonsumlustDax im Höhenflug - Die besten zehn Aktien des JahresBörse am Abend - Dax sinkt trotz Einigung mit AthenSteuerzahlerbund fordert Nein zur Eur...

After a five-year break from recording Sinéad O'Connor is back with her strongest album in years How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? "I'd prefer to call it How About I Be Me and You Fuck Off" says the Irish singer "but Walmart wouldn't stock us" Hard Times It's...

Les points chauds de l'actualité avec nos correspondants à Pékin et Tokyo.

(Reuters) - After a lengthy debate, Walmart decided that eggs are indeed healthy.

The number of medical clinics inside retail stores is expected to boom, in part because of incentives under the new federal health care law. Chains like Safeway and Walmart already have big expansion plans.

A man has been arrested at a Walmart in North Carolina after attempting to buy items with a million dollar note. Police revealed that the man insisted the bill was real after trying to buy $476 (£306) worth of goods, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. Investigators explained that Michael Fuller, 53, was trying to purchase a vacuum cleaner, a microwave oven and other items before store ...

A man has been arrested at a Walmart in North Carolina after attempting to buy items with a million dollar note. Police revealed that the man insisted the bill was real after trying to buy $476 (£306) worth of goods, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. Investigators explained that Michael Fuller, 53, was trying to purchase a vacuum cleaner, a microwave oven and other items before store ...

PLENTY IN WASHINGTON continues to go right, which may help explain why the city grew by 16,000 residents since spring 2010 — a faster rate of increase than that of almost any state. In his first year in office, Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) kept school reform on track under the leadership of his highly qualified chancellor, Kaya Henderson. He appointed a number of other talented people to his team,...

Sometimes it's compromise toward pressure, sometimes it's a strategy and other times it may even stand for arrogance. Then how to test if an apology is sincere? Simply deeds.

Crystal Bridges, a museum of American art built by a Walmart heir, has opened in Arkansas.

Walmart and health officials are awaiting tests on a batch of powdered infant formula that was removed from more than 3,000 stores nationwide after a newborn baby who consumed it apparently died from a rare infection.

What is the retailer doing that's so wrong? A more deserving target might actually be small companies.In cultural commentary about the American economy, one company at a time always seems to be the goat. Everything it does is interpreted as evil. In the 1950s it was General Motors. GM's CEO, Charles "Engine Charlie" Wilson, became a national figure of ridicule for telling a congressional commit...

After one baby died and another one was stricken with a rare infection, officials in Missouri are testing infant formula to see if it might be ...

Thousands of migratory birds were killed or injured this week after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart parking lot, football fields and other snow-covered areas of southern Utah for bodies of water and plummeting to the ground.

Faced with opposition from its own allies like Mamata Banerjee, the government has shelved its proposal to allow Walmart and other multibrand foreign retailers to have majority stakes in Indian hypermarkets. Critics have accepted the bogus claim that foreign retailers will kill small Indian shopkeepers. In fact, the Walmart model is a 20th century concept that’s rapidly becoming obsolete in t...

INDIAN PRIME minister Manmohan Singh’s administration caved in to opposition pressure yesterday by suspending plans to open the $450 billion retail sector to foreign supermarkets like Walmart and Tesco.

NEW DELHI (AP) -- India's government on Wednesday suspended its plans to throw open its huge retail sector to foreign companies such as Wal-Mart in a decision seen as a major capitulation to political opponents that further weakens the administration....

PM Manmohan Singh on Thursday is learnt to have told Trinamool representative Sudip Bandopadhyaya that Mamata Banerjee should not come in the way of those states which may wish to benefit from the entry of foreign giants like Walmart and Tesco.

Shopycat app uses your Facebook data to recommend gifts you should buy for your friends

If we’d been on Skype, she would have hung up as soon as I answered. She would have said, “Whoaaaa! Wrong number, lady!” and dropped the phone like it was a Walmart shopping bag

Now, before we get into this, we don't want to generalize the whole of Black Friday shoppers due to the actions of the crazy minority. But… That being said, Black Friday is a setting some MAJOR shenanigans! A shopper used pepper spray to get their goods in a Los Angeles Wal-Mart late Thursday night. The crowds [...]

Twenty people, including children, were injured after a woman reportedly pepper sprayed other shoppers at an L.A.-area Walmart on Thursday as late-night Black Friday sales began in the U.S. and Canada

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HONOLULU (Reuters) - When flood waters rose in Thailand, Wal-Mart stores in Japan ran out of mouthwash.

A collection of American art donated by Alice Walton, heiress to the Wal-Mart fortune, opens tomorrow in Arkensas.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- As an heir to the Wal-Mart fortune, Alice Walton had the means to buy almost any piece of art on the market. So she scooped up one masterpiece after another: an iconic portrait of George Washington, romantic landscapes from the 19th century, a Norman Rockwell classic....

Alice Walton, Erbin der Billigkette Walmart, wechselt auf die Seite der Museumsbesitzer. Die Pferdezüchterin leistet sich einen gigantischen Bau in der amerikanischen Provinz.

TV VIEWThere was Hank and Kenny and Joe and Randy and Jerry, not forgetting the reporter on horseback, Caton Bredar. And that was only the half of them. By the looks of ESPN’s Breeders’ Cup coverage, brought to us by At The Races on Saturday night, the channel employs more Americans than Walmart.