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25 Reasons We Will Not Have a Depression (at Seeking Alpha)
More Stocks May Not Make a Portfolio Safer (at The Wall Street Journal Online)
Stocks could sputter with Black Friday eyed (Reuters)
U.S. stocks could sputter next week as volumes dry up in holiday-shortened trading and with a slew of economic reports likely to illustrate the recovery is still fragile.
Dear Economist: I love Walmart: my wife hates it. Help! (at FT.com)
My newlywed wife and I are deeply in love. There is, however, one issue that threatens the blissful fabric of our marriage. I absolutely insist upon shopping at Walmart. My wife, meanwhile, would rather avoid Walmart at all costs.
Retail's Magic Numbers (at Investopedia)
E-Com Set To Ring Up Sales (Investor's Business Daily)
Nov. 30 is the ceremonial kickoff to the online holiday shopping season this year. That's Cyber Monday.
Your First Move For Monday November 23rd (at CNBC)
[video] Fast Money Final Trades (at CNBC)
Wal-Mart And Sears Pulling An Amazon In The Marketplace (Investor's Business Daily)
Call it Amazon Marketplace envy.
Wall St Week Ahead-Stocks could sputter with Black Friday eyed (at Reuters)
[$$] Lowe's Exec VP Sells $750,000 in Stock (at Barrons.com)
Lowe's Exec VP Sells $750,000 in Stock Joseph Mabry sold 34,639 shares of the home-improvement firm.
Bottling Up Beer Investors (at Motley Fool)
[video] Some Recent Insider Sales [2.5 min] (at MarketWatch)
Wal-Mart's ex-CEO and Juniper Network's founder sell some shares says Barrons.com's John Kimelman.
Black Friday deals may not signal retail comeback (Reuters)
When the U.S. holiday shopping season kicks off on the day after Thanksgiving, retailers can expect to see millions of less frightened but even more bargain hungry customers cross their thresholds.
PREVIEW-Black Friday deals may not signal retail comeback (at Reuters)
Confessions of a Black Friday Shopper (at CNBC)
Black Friday, You're Dead to Me (at CNBC)
Skip The Hype and Snag The Best Black Friday Deals (at CNBC)
Sorry Santa, We're Out of Stock (at CNBC)
Retailers Should Believe in Christmas Miracles (at CNBC)
Yahoo! Finance: WMT News
Latest Financial News for WAL MART STORES
Why Krugman Is Wrong About The Yuan
Revaluing China's currency would not help America.
In Pictures: How To Get A Holiday Job
Even in a terrible economy many employers need extra hands in December.
Holiday Hope For Retailers
This year the big impact might be where, not how much, shoppers are spending.
Retail Sales Spark Rally
Rebound for automakers fuels October rise; GM reports $1.2B Q3 loss, says it will start paying back taxpayers.
Nordstrom's Optimistic Forecast
After hours: Disney beats; Activision Blizzard's new release boosts shares.
A Christmas Silver Lining For Retailers
Shoppers are expected to be frugal over the holidays again, but stores are better prepared this time.
The World's Most Powerful People
There are 67 slots on Forbes' first ranking of the World's Most Powerful People --one for every 100 million people on the planet.
HP Buys 3Com
After hours: 3COM shares soar; Applied Materials and Green Mountain Coffee beat.
Fact And Comment
Steve Forbes on unstable economy, the Great Depression, capitalism, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, National FUnd for Local News, Major League Baseball, Yankees.
The World's Most Powerful People
The 67 heads of state, criminals, financiers and philanthropists who really run the world.
For Now, Wal-Mart Is Still China's Biggest
The merger of Rt-Mart and Auchan in China may be held up by employee opposition.
Big Marketers Are Urged To Stay Focused On Customers, Brands
The 99th annual Association of National Advertisers conference.
Week Ahead: Wal-Mart, JA Solar
Retail round-up; jobless claims.
How Capitalism Will Save Us
Why free people and free markets are the best answer in today's economy.
Isn't Capitalism Brutal?
Democratic capitalism can be disruptive and unpredictable, but ''creative destruction'' is critical to a healthy economy and society.
California Forces Workers to Give State No-Interest Loans
Things clearly aren’t going too well in California at the moment. The University of California system lost $800 million in state funding, some California colleges have instituted furlough days, and small businesses are getting paid with state IOUs.
In hopes of slicing another $1.7 billion from the budget deficit, the state will start withholding an additional [...]
Can Behavioral Economics Jump-Start Green Leadership?
Perhaps, but it can also get your company in trouble if you're not careful.
Don't Know Nothing About Poverty
Economic voodoo can't make income inequality go away.
Fact And Comment
Steve Forbes on the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Regulatory Commission and FDIC Chief Sheila Blair.
Consumer Woes Sink Stocks, But IBM Lifts Dow
Falling consumer confidence rattles investors. Tech weakness drags on Nasdaq, but IBM share buyback saves the Dow.
Not So Unequal, After All
Truth and demagoguery in the income-inequality debate.
Craig Barrett: Life Beyond Intel
Former Intel Chairman takes aim at healthcare and education.
Wealth Creation Is No Crime
It's fashionable to take swipes at the greedy and ignorant boobs who run American business, but don't spread the blame universally.
Fact And Comment
Steve Forbes on the economy, climate change, credit-rating agencies, and restaurants
Nobel Pioneers
Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom.
Forbes.com: wmt
The latest Forbes.com news on the ticker wmt.
'Fast Money' Recap: Turkey Trades
The trading panel discussed what trades they would make during a holiday-shortened week. 2009 11 20 20:09
Final Glance: Broadline Retail companies
NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of some top broadline retail companies were down at the close of trading: 2009 11 20 17:50
Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day Highlights: Principal Financial, Sohu.com, Bank of America, Wal-Mart and Sears Holding Corp.
Zacks Equity Research highlights Principal Financial (NYSE: PFG) as the Bull of the Day and Sohu.com (Nasdaq: SOHU) the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on Bank 2009 11 20 17:05
More Stocks May Not Make a Portfolio Safer
2009 11 20 16:47
Black Friday deals may not signal retail comeback
When the U.S. holiday shopping season kicks off on the day after Thanksgiving, retailers can expect to see millions of less frightened but even more bargain hungry customers cross their thresholds. 2009 11 20 15:18
USAID, Walmart, TransFair USA and SEBRAE-Minas Gerais Sponsor Brazil Coffee Cupping Competition
Members of Fair Trade Certified Coffee Associations put their Beans to the TestBELO HORIZONTE, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Winners for this week's Brazilian Fair Trade 2009 11 20 10:47
Sears narrows 3Q loss on cost-cutting efforts
CHICAGO (AP) - Shoppers increased their spending at Kmart stores for the first time in at least seven years this fall, picking up cheap toys, shoes and items for their homes. 2009 11 19 17:29
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Godiva Rides in a New Direction
At a time when many consumers are drinking tap water rather than bottled water, a high-end chocolatier is making over its marketing to better fit in with the new mood.
Wal-Mart Profit Up, but Key Indicator Slips
Revenue and profit were up at Wal-Mart more than expected, but sales fell 0.4 percent at stores open at least a year.
Something to Rah-Rah-Rah About for Christmas
In its first TV spots for Christmas since 2006, Gap is featuring energetic young people performing as singers and cheerleaders.
Calming the Black Friday Crowds
After a trampling death last year at one of its stores, Wal-Mart has overhauled its crowd-control measures.
Sony to Offer Film on Internet TV, Then DVD
Sony, the only movie studio tied to a top hardware maker, is in a unique position to try selling movies directly to consumers through television sets.
A Stratocaster for Max, and Other Mad Men Stories
A Wal-Mart executive describes how people go hungry when they run out of money at the end of the month, and what the chain is doing about it.
Wal-Mart Expands a Prepaid Cellphone Effort
The effort, a partnership with Tracfone Wireless that stresses cutting your cellphone bill, will be in 3,200 Wal-Mart stores.
Studios’ Quest for Life After DVDs
Hollywood used to keep quiet about digital video, for fear of angering DVD retailers like Wal-Mart. The silence is over, and the innovations are rolling out.
Book Association Challenges Retailers’ Price Plan
A trade group for independently owned bookstores has asked the Justice Department to investigate what it describes as “predatory pricing” by Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target.
Price War Over Books Worries Industry
Publishers, booksellers, agents and authors are fretting that a pricing battle between Wal-Mart and Amazon is taking prices for some titles so low that it could damage the industry.
Once Slave to Luxury, Japan Catches Thrift Bug
This recession has done something that earlier declines could not: turned the Japanese into Wal-Mart shoppers.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas Names a New Director
The institution being built in Bentonville, Ark., by Alice L. Walton, the Wal-Mart heiress, said on Monday that it had hired the director of the Toledo Museum of Art to be its new director.
Retailers Post Weak Earnings and July Sales
Reports made clear that consumers were likely to continue hoarding their dollars into the back-to-school shopping season, a crucial time for retailers.
Can Wal-Mart Be Sustainable?
Wal-Mart’s planned sustainability index, if done right, could promote much-needed transparency and more environmentally sensitive practices.
Nickel and Dimed
Two books about Wal-Mart focus on its culture, its technology and its labor practices.
NYT > Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
The discount chain, started by Sam Walton in 1962, has become a central figure in scores of social, economic and political debates, from health care to immigration to gun control.
Supporters contend that the chain's legendary low prices have democratized consumption, allowing low-income households to afford flat-screen televisions and nine-layer lasagna. Critics say those low prices have depressed domestic wages and exported manufacturing jobs to foreign countries, hurting Americans more than helping them. All of which has made Wal-Mart the most scrutinized business in the country. Running the retailer, its former chief executive, H. Lee Scott, told The New York Times, is "like running for president of the United States." On November 21, 2008, Wal-Mart announced that Mr. Scott would be succeeded by Michael T. Duke as the next chief executive and president. Mr. Scott will continue as chairman.
Mr. Duke will be inheriting a company that may be growing stronger as the economy grows weaker. The financial turmoil strangling discretionary spending at many stores, is sending struggling consumers into the arms of Wal-Mart leaving the worlds largest retailer poised for a blockbuster Christmas.
In my mind, there is no doubt that this is Wal-Mart time, Mr. Scott, said earlier in the fall at a meeting of analysts and investors in Wal-Marts hometown, Bentonville, Ark. Referring to the discount chains founder, he added, This is the kind of environment that Sam Walton built this company for.
The renewed emphasis on savings may take attention away from a public relation's record that is decidedly mixed. A commitment to make sweeping reductions in energy use and greenhouse emissions has won plaudits from environmentalists. And a new health care plan, with shorter waiting period before a new employee is eligible and lower premiums, has impressed critics. But its own employees have repeatedly embarrassed the company. Wal-Mart has asserted that two top advertising executives violated company policies by conducting a sexual affair and accepting gifts from a potential vendor. The pair deny those claims. And a computer technician taped phone calls between Wal-Mart public relations officials and a reporter for The New York Times.