courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Last Friday the Walton family, heirs of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) founder Sam Walton, announced that the family business, Walton Enterprises LLC, would would distribute about 6%…
Paul Ausick Ballard Power Systems has announced that the world's first hydrogen fuel cell powered, fixed-rail electric tram was successfully demonstrated at a facility of CSR Qingdao Sifang company.
A survey of prepaid cards revealed wide variation in both the types of fees charged on the cards and the amount of those fees.
Wal-Mart has 4,953 locations in the United States. But a look at Wal-Mart store locations shows just how regional the company is.
Douglas A. McIntyre In a recently completed survey of more than 62,000 supermarket customers, Consumer Reports rated Wegmans Publix and Trader Joe's at the top.
The U.S. Department of Labor released its March payroll and unemployment data Friday morning, and it is hard to imagine how it could have been much worse.
Citigroup's Mark May gave an updated call on Facebook after analyzing the most recent F8 Facebook Developer Conference.
For the 90,000 or so employees who work in its 1,500 company-operated U.S. stores, McDonald's plans to boost the average pay to $10 per hour.
thinkstockApril 1, 2015: Markets opened lower on Wednesday on mixed economic news. The ADP employment report came in well short of expectations, the dollar weakened a bit, and crude oil rose sharply…
How will the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, respond to Amazon's expanding Prime Now delivery service and, potentially, a Prime Air delivery service using drones?
Five top picks from among Credit Suisse's plethora of contrarian ideas include Nokia, U.S. Steel and Wal-Mart.
A couple of investment banks have weighed in on Facebook. Should the social media powerhouse be valued the same as Wal-Mart?
Exxon Mobil, which has its roots in John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil from well over a century ago, has had its market cap eclipsed by Google, which was founded in 1998.
An institution of that size, breadth and economic power of Wal-Mart cannot help but wield an outsized influence, both economically and socially.
Paul Ausick Jefferies analysts see three top retail stocks benefiting from rising wages and lower fuel prices.
