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The Newest Fortune 100 Companies
Most of America’s largest companies are also among its oldest companies. In fact, many of the Fortune 100 firms are more than a century old. Almost none were founded in the past…
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Walmart Inc
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WMT Coverage
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More DJIA Stocks Set to Hike Dividends Very Soon (DIS, DIA, T, VZ, CSCO, KO, IBM, JNJ, JPM, MMM, PFE, MRK, WMT, DVY, VIG, PFM, HDV)
Dividends are still rising and equity and income investors should expect more of the same for 2012. The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) joined in on the dividend hike brigade with another dividend…
9:05am ET
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Groupon Has Impressive October Results–Yipit
The head of Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) said the company’s recent performance was strong. He spoke at the end of the firm’s IPO silent period, which drove shares 6% higher yesterday Now there…
6:36am ET
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Hitwise: E-Commerce Surge At Walmart, Target, Best Buy, And JC Penney
Hitwise released its report about e-commerce activity at the top 500 online retailers on Cyber Monday. Overall activity rose 24%, which is in line with other data. The online research firm said…
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Retail
Online Retailers Stealing Bricks And Mortar Business
The Monday following this year’s Thanksgiving, also known as Cyber Monday, was the highest-grossing online shopping day in U.S. history. According to research firm comScore, spending reached $1.25 billion, an increase of…
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What’s Important in the Financial World (11/30/2011) Zynga IPO, IMF to Save Italy
Europe may only have a week to rescue itself from financial disaster. The borrowing costs of Italy and Spain have been unsustainably high for too long. The stability fund established to back…
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Technology
Cyber Monday–Largest E-Commerce Sales Day In History (WMT, AMZN)
It is clear that e-commerce sales growth has begun to race ahead of bricks-and-mortar revenue growth this holiday season. Comscore reports that Cyber Monday was “The Heaviest Online Spending Day In History”.…
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Retail
Black Friday E-Commerce Sales Up 26%
comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR)  reported U.S. retail e-commerce spending for the first 25 days of the November – December 2011 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $12.7 billion has been spent online, marking…
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What’s Happening In The Financial World (11/25/2011) Apple Customer Loyalty, Walmart India
The sovereign debt forest fire moved to Hungary, the debt of which was downgraded to junk status by Moody’s . Other factors were even more important as the fate of the EU…
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Retail
Will Walmart (WMT) Fail In India?
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has waited for years to gain the ability to have 100% ownership in a large retail company in India. It should be careful what it wishes for. It has failed in…
Douglas A. McIntyre 1:29pm ET
Retail
Holiday E-commerce Spending to Greatly Outpace Brick & Mortar (SCOR, AMZN, WMT, TGT)
Many stores are planning to open early on Black Friday in an effort to get a jump on holiday shopping, but spending increases are not expected to rise more than 3% or…
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What’s Important in the Financial World (11/23/2011) Bank Stress Tests, Walmart’s 10,000th Store
The purchasing managers indices of China, German and France all signaled slow growth or contraction in November. It is a sign that demand for exports and consumer expenditures are in free fall. China and…
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Retail
Black Friday Shoppers to Surge, But Will They Buy?
A new study by the National Federation of Retailers makes a prediction that runs counter to almost every other forecast of holiday shopping activity. The data shows that the number of people who say…
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Walmart (WMT) Opens 10,000th Store
According to MarketWatch, Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has opened its 10,000th store. “Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s opened its 10,000th store worldwide Tuesday in central Mexico, as it speeds up its Mexican 2011 store expansion…
Douglas A. McIntyre 2:27pm ET
Retail
Expected Sales Growth Drives Upside in Retail Stocks (COST, WMT, TGT, M, JWN, KSS, BBY)
An unexpected gain in October retail sales has boosted prospects for a better-than-forecast holiday retail sales season. Some of the sales gains will come from lower pricing, which can’t always be counted…