Walmart : WMT

Amazon Atop Another Useless Retail Study

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is by a number of measures the most visited retail site in the US, the most successful…

New Apple iPhone Faces Overexposure

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) will sell its new iPhone in its own retail stores and in Walmart (NYSE: WMT). The…

24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 22

Big Dividend & Buybacks Keep Coming (BG, FRX, IN, KBR, MON, VIA, WMT, CAT, FDX, TGT)

So much for a double-dip recession, or at least that is what the waves of new share buybacks and dividend…

Media Digest 6/7/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

MarketWatch:   The Nikkei dropped 3.8%. Reuters:   The euro dropped to a four-year low as investors exit risk. Reuters:   Foxconn will…

Wal-Mart Tries for $15 Billion More in Share Buybacks (WMT, RTH)

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is going for the headline effect this morning at its 40th Annual Meeting of Shareholders. …

Walmart To Aid Employees To Get College Educations

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) plans to help 1.4 million of its US workers to get a higher education. The company announced…

Media Digest 6/4/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes FT, Bloomberg

Reuters:   More doubts about the global economy arose as the G20 prepares to meet. Reuters:   American International Group…

Will Every Foreign Worker In China Get A Raise? Will Every Chinese Worker?

There have been an extraordinary number of suicides at Chinese electronics company Foxconn which does a great deal of work for…

24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 20

The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst…

Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (IRE, BCSI, FNFG, MON, OVTI, PG, RHT, TGT, WFC, WMT)

These are some of this morning’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday…

Costco: The Resurrection Of The American Consumer?

Costco (NASDAQ: COST) announced very impressive earnings for the quarter ending May 9. Revenue rose from $15.5 billion to $17.4…

Blockbuster Can’t Reduce Debt, Faces Bankruptcy (BBI, NFLX, WMT, NCR)

When Blockbuster Inc. (NYSE:BBI) filed its 2009 annual report in March, it included the dreaded “going concern” sentence, indicating that…

The 4G iPhone: Wal-Mart (WMT) Cuts Price Of Current iPhone 3GS By Half

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) will cut the price of the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 3GS, the top of the company’s smartphone…

24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 19

The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst…