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Walmart Inc

NYSE: WMT Discount Stores
$119.32
▼ $0.97 (−0.81%) today
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9:36am ET
Jobs

US Employers Slashed 222,000 Jobs in March

U.S. companies announced more than 222,000 job cuts in March, a year-over-year increase of nearly 300%. The vast majority of the job losses were attributed to the outbreak of COVID-19.

Paul Ausick
9:22pm ET
Retail

Walmart to Hire 150,000

Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has over a million workers in the U.S. That figure is about to grow by 150,000 as the retail scrambles, like Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has, to handle…

Douglas A. McIntyre
1:19pm ET
Retail

Is Walmart Recession-Proof?

The Dow Jones industrials are down over 30% from its all-time high in mid-February, but Walmart is actually up about 7% since then. Is Walmart recession-proof?

Chris Lange