FTSE 100 closes 30 points ahead as Dow Jones turns negative
The UK premier index added 0.43% on the day, while FTSE 250 added over 123 points at 19,690.
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Walmart Inc
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Walmart Inc. is a technology-powered omni-channel retailer. The company provides the opportunity to shop in both retail stores and through e-commerce and to access its other service offerings. It offers an assortment of merchandise and services at everyday low prices (EDLP). It operates through three segments: Walmart U.S., Walmart International and Sam's Club.
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Afternoon rally sees S&P 500 move into positive territory though the Dow remains mired
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Dow Jones breaks six day winning streak to close 254 points lower
What happened in the US market today after it was closed for President's day on Monday?
Asda reports sales growth for third quarter in a row on strong Christmas trading
The supermarket chain reported a 0.5% increase in like-for-like sales in the fourth quarter
Albertsons to buy the rest of Rite Aid that isn't going to Walgreens
Albertson and Rite Aid are together valued at around US$24bn, including debt
Wal-Mart’s Q4 earnings miss overshadows progress made in fight against Amazon
The big-box retailer has been steadily strengthening its online presence as it looks to ward off the threat posed by Amazon, and e-commerce sales jumped more than 40% last year
Rite Aid, Home Depot, Walmart and Domino's Pizza - PRE-MARKET
Proactive takes a look at the market ahead of the New York bell
Starbucks, Wal-Mart, American Airlines and Intel - AFTER HOURS
Strong results from "Chipzilla" - Intel, if you prefer - but an insipid serving from Starbucks.
Food inflation helps UK grocers to deliver record Christmas sales but caution remains over general merchandise
Top spot in the Proactive grocer awards goes to Morrisons, while there was only real candidate for the wooden spoon – M&S
PepsiCo reserves 100 of Tesla’s new electric Semi trucks, the largest-known order so far
PepsiCo’s 100 trucks add to orders already made by more than a dozen companies such as retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc and foodservice distribution company Sysco Corp
Black Friday sales surge in US as Amazon, Target, Wal-Mart extend deals
Retailers have been extending sales across the week to maximise hype and boost sales
US stock indices close on another high as retailers cash in on Black Friday
Nasdaq and S&P 500 hit record highs in a shortened trading day ....
US stocks close slightly higher on leading October indicators
US benchmarks kick off slightly higher ahead of Thanksgiving holiday
BEFORE THE BELL: Bitcoin, Amazon.com Inc, Ali Baba Group Holding Ltd, Wal Mart Stores Inc
Round-up of the day's news out before the start of trading in New York
AFTER HOURS: Tesla Inc, General Electric Inc, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Trump Tax boost
A round-up of the breaking headlines after the closing bell
Wal-Mart and J.B. Hunt place pre-orders for Tesla's electric truck
Tesla unveiled its commercial heavy-duty truck along with a revamped Roadster on Thursday
Nasdaq reaches a new record high as Wall Street soars and Wal-Mart cheers
US stocks are powering higher on Thursday as the 'risk-on' sentiment returns
Wal-Mart shares surge as it raises profit guidance and reports third quarter revenue growth
Wal-Mart has raised its adjusted profit outlook for the year
Walmart Stores, Rockwell Automation , Viacom, Anadarko Petroleum Corp - PRE-MARKET
Proactive takes a peak at what is piquing investor interest before the bell in New York
Buffalo Wild Wings, AMC Entertainment Holdings, Wal-Mart Stores and more - AFTER HOURS
A look at what moved the dial after hours in New York
Buffalo Wild Wings, AMC Entertainment Holdings, Wal-Mart Stores and more - AFTER HOURS
A look at what happened after the bell in New York last night
Boss of Wal-Mart Stores’ UK chain Asda, Sean Clarke, to leave post at the end of the year
Asda’s current president and chief executive will be replaced by deputy chief executive, Roger Burnley, who joined Asda a year ago from rival UK supermarket chain J Sainsbury
Walmart Stores shares advance as it unveils digital expansion plans
For fiscal 2019, the group expects earnings to increase around 5% compared to 2018.
UK supermarkets sales up by over 3% for sixth month, with Tesco again leading the ‘Big Four’
Kantar Worldpanel said its latest grocery market share figures showed an overall increase of 3.6% in sales for the 12 weeks to 10 September 2017, compared with the same period last year
Sarepta Therapeutics, Navistar International, Wal-Mart Stores Trivago
Sarepta released positive study results for a new treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Google and Wal-Mart team up to offer voice-enabled shopping
From September, you’ll be able to buy products from Walmart just by using the Google Assistant platform on phones and home devices
US stocks heavily sold off in to close
Traders are mulling some big cap shares losses as well as Yesterday's Fed minutes
Asda emerges from three-year sales slump
The growth was achieved against some very soft comparative figures
Walmart Stores Inc, Alibaba, Hershey Co and more - PRE-MARKET
We take a look at what's moving the needle in New York in pre-market
Wal-Mart sees like-for-like sales rise in the US for 12th consecutive quarter
Shares were marked down in pre-market trading despite a small "beat" on the underlying earnings per share
Walmart Stores Inc nudges higher ahead of results - PREVIEW
in the quarter to July 29, Target's net income was US$672ml, or US$1.22 a share
Wal-Mart on the rise thanks to Goldman Sachs upgrade
Not only was Wal-Mart upgraded, it was also added to the bank’s conviction list.
Wal-Mart Stores and Amazon.com squaring up? According to NY Post hostilities have are bubbling up
According to a report Wal-Mart has ramped up the tensions
Tesco strong as UK supermarkets see highest sales growth in five years, driven by rising inflation
Kantar Worldpanel said overall supermarket sales rose by 5.0% in the 12 weeks to June 18, a stark contrast to the 0.2% decline seen this time last year
Wal-Mart rules out entering bidding war for Whole Foods Market
Barclays, among others, has suggested a bidding war may break out over Whole Foods
HSBC says sentiment towards UK food retailers after Amazon/Whole Foods Market seems to be "creating a self-fulfilling prophecy"
The bank's analysts pointed out that while there remains a fear of Amazon entering the UK, the food retail sector is likely to remain depressed
Grocery sector rocked as Amazon scoops up Whole Foods
Stocks on the run in the sector reads like a who's who of retail's big names
Panic in the aisles: Grocery stocks tank as Amazon gets physical with US$13bn Whole Foods takeover
Amazon stock is rising, but the disruptive forces are sending Wal-Mart, CostCo and Target into a tailspin
Food retailers squished as Amazon adds Whole Foods to its basket
The Dow struggled into positive territory, but the tech-heavy Nasdaq remained in the mire
Tesco and Morrison's best 'Big Four' players as all grocers again see sales grow with inflation rising
Grocery price inflation was up 2.9% year-on-year in the 12 weeks to May 21, from a 2.6% increase in the previous three month period.
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Autodesk - losing money but on the right track
Brokers have warm words for Autodesk, TeleNav, Wal-Mart and Gap
Asda 'on the right track' despite like for-like sales drop
Allowing for a leap year and a late Easter there had been a sequential improvement in the underlying business
Wal-Mart bolstered by online sales surge
The e-commerce arm saw a 63% rise in sales as it battled to counter the threat of Amazon and others
Wall Street shares close higher as GAP surges after first quarter beat
US benchmarks closed higher in New York after the big losses yesterday
Easter sugar rush: Kantar Worldpanel data shows all 10 major food retailers in growth for the first time in three-and-a-half years
Kantar Worldpanel’s latest data revealed that the overall grocery market has grown by 3.7% – the fastest rate since September 2013 - worth almost £1bn in additional sales
Whole Foods in play as activist investor with an over 8% stake wants it to explore a possible sale
New York-based investment firm Jana Partners LLC has built up an 8.3% stake in Whole Foods, according to a regulatory filing yesterday, up from the 7.15% holding it had at the end of last month.
Wal-Mart ready for hard discounters - and Amazon
The chain is preparing for an onslaught by improving quality, prices and own-label products.
Markets end little changed despite day of drama
Stocks are mixed but firmer on balance, with defense stocks wanted after the air strikes on Syria
Tesco, Sainsbury's see sales decline in latest Kantar data, although Morrison's maintains recent recovery
In the 12 weeks ended March 26, Morrison’s achieved sales growth of 0.3% year-on-year, although its market share slipped to 10.4% from 10.5%
US stocks run out of time to keep record run alive
US stocks enjoyed a last-minute rally after President Donald Trump began the process of deregulation but it was not enough to keep record high tickers for an eleventh session
Record gains on Wall Street, six ways
Six US stock indices closed near their intraday record highs on Tuesday as retail sector earnings and growing expectations that Fed interest rates could be hiked again as soon as next month buoyed banks
More shoppers online and in US stores helps Wal-Mart's fourth-quarter results beat forecasts
The firm saw its sales at US stores open for at least a year increase by 1.8%, excluding fuel, well above forecasts for a rise of 1.3%.
What does US$250,000 get you at Berkshire Hathaway?
The answer is one share, but there’s more to it than that
Morrisons hit by BofA Merrill Lynch downgrade a day before it kicks off sector’s Christmas trading updates
In a review of the European food retail sector, the US bank’s analysts downgraded their rating for Morrisons to ‘underperform’ from ‘neutral’.
US shares edge lower, led by retailers, as rates outlook in focus
US stocks edged lower on Friday, as prospects for fresh record highs faded and markets reflected on how much more monetary tightening to expect from the Federal Reserve after this week’s rate hike
Trending: Trump Offensive - No offence taken as tech stocks in good books
Investors were treated to another stock rotation opportunity – read surprise – on Wednesday when US President-elect Donald Trump struck a conciliatory tone with technology company chiefs in a New York meeting
Christmas coming early: Tesco enjoys third consecutive month of market share growth
Till-roll data analysis by research firm Kantar Worldpanel showed Tesco's sales rose 1.6% year-on-year in the 12 weeks to December 4, taking its UK market share up to 28.3%, up from 28.0% a year earlier.
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Trending: Black Friday damp squib
It's been an underwhelming day for the retail sector which opened its doors to the Black Friday discounted shopping extravaganza
Best Buy shares up before bell, Wallmart’s bullish news sidetracked
The US retail sector was hot on Thursday after upbeat reports from Best Buy and store giant Wal-Mart Stores. But the latter's shares have failed to rise so far
US shares climb close to a fresh record high
US top stocks came within a whisker of marking a fresh record high on Thursday as the market lapped up good news from the retail sector while Fed warnings of a rate hike were soothed by soft data and testimony from the central bank’s chief
Stocks trim losses after soft jobs report muddies the rate hike waters
September's jobs report was disappointing, but perhaps not disappointing enough to push back an expected rise in interest rates in December
Wal-Mart Stores see flat earnings for 18 months
The store opening programme has been trimmed as the focus switches to digital and online.
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Brokers: Milky way looks like the right path for Wal-Mart
Jefferies applauds Wal-Mart's decision to open a large milk manufacturing plant; Concordia worth a punt, suggests Canaccord
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Retail sector gets a wholesale buy upgrade
Every retailer likes to hear the word “buy” and that was in the vocabulary of brokers at Guggenheim when they opted on Friday to initiate coverage Amazon.com, Nike, Macy’s, Coach and other retail stocks. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart also received so
Tesco, Sainsbury, Morrisons: Store Wars winners and losers
The broker Credit Suisse this morning provided an in-depth look at the grocers and gave its take on just which of the biggies will prosper in the current environment.
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Twitter gains but warnings of share price rout
Twitter shares may have ended 21.4% higher at $22.62 on takeover rumours on Friday, but the micro-blogging site was given a cautionary note by RBC tech analyst Mark Mahaney
US shares end flat-to-lower, Fed watch continues
US stocks ended flat-to-lower on Tuesday as the Fed rate vigil engulfed rational thought and led investors to a conclusive stalemate
London’s mining stocks and bullish retail sales give FTSE a firm finish
London stocks were dominated by gains from miners for a second time in a week while forecast-beating UK retail sales data put Brexit fears in the shade to give blue-chip stocks a firm close on Thursday
Asda is the weakest link in the Wal-Mart chain
Head honcho Doug McMillon said the international operations were performing well. He must have blanked Asda's wretched performance out of his memory.
FTSE 100 marks time despite strong retail sales
Ex-div stocks are weighing on the Footsie, which was barely in positive territory
Amazon under fire
No company is above the law, but Wal-Mart's new acquisition is under Lore ...
Amazon logs onto UK grocery market
Amazon has plans to roll out its Fresh service throughout the UK
Trending: Brits that undercut the US clothes retailers
Primark is hitting US retailers hard, Burberry CEO takes a 75% pay cut, WPP's Sorrell under pay pressure, Devon Energy drops assets and gains an investor, and Hertz agrees to spin off its equipment unit
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Papers: Twitter looked at Yahoo! merger
The idea of Twitter taking over Yahoo! is not as crazy as it seems at first
Tesco comes up trumps in latest retail data
Tesco racked up the smallest fall in sales among the UK’s “big four” chains in the last three months
Trending: Retailers that aren't carping on about GMO salmon
Canada may have become the next country to approve the sale of genetically-modified salmon fish, following a similar approval from the Food and Drug Administration, but GE faces a setback in the fisheries sector
Trending: Hooray for the Henrys
Trouble at t'store for Asda; Ladbrokes gets a result; HSBC halves retail estate in India; Student digs company raises £60mln - that's a lot of pizzas
US stocks drop as New York adds to Fed calls for a June rate hike
US markets sank with increasing fears of a June Fed rate hike on Thursday and the S&P 500 reflected the mood, ending the session in the red for 2016 for the first time in over a month
Wall Street reels as its local central banker joins chorus for June Fed hike
US shares were softer at midsession on Thursday after one of the most influential central bankers in the world's biggest economy sided with the case for a mid-year Fed rate hike
Walmart Stores Inc shares head north as first quarter earnings impress
Shares in retail giant Wal-Mart Stores raced up almost 9% in New York as it posted first quarter earnings
Wall Street shares seen lower amid market uncertainty
Today, futures trading has the S&P500 down 1.25, while the Nasdaq index is down 2.75 and the benchmark Dow Jones is down one point.
Wal-Mart trials Amazon Prime-style service
Contrary to what the WSJ originally reported, membership of the scheme will be open to all
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FTSE 100 Index rises as traders welcome no rate change for now
The FTSE 100 Index recovered earlier losses to stand 22.4 points ahead at 6184 by lunchtime
Investments and investor services
FTSE 100 Index drops after US slump and Japanese woe
The FTSE 100 Index opened about 58 points adrift but pared some of the losses in later trading
Is Tesco back on the road again?
The City's message appeared to be "nice work so far, but more to do"
US shares at one-week high after Fed's Yellen rate speech
US stocks swung into positive territory after US Fed Chair Janet Yellen said it is appropriate for the central bank to proceed "cautiously" in raising interest rates
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Papers: FBI crack iPhone without Apple's help
Also, Wal-Mart, Valeant Pharmaceuticals, Virgin America and General Motors...
Wall Street shares nudge higher ahead of the bell
Fed chair Janet Yellen could have a big impact on markets with her speech later today
Supermarket woe continues as Asda takes Christmas hit
US-owned supermarket chain's revenue dropped 5.8% over the final three months of 2015
Wal-Mart hopes dashed as Asda chain hits record low sales growth
If Wal-Mart had a rocky day, things were no better in the UK, where its Asda brand suffered its worst quarterly sales on record.
Oil sector, growth fears pressure Wall Street stocks lower
Depressing news from the oil sector as well as worries about global growth prospects helped push Wall Street tickers into the red by Thursday's close
Thursday's trending - Walmart, gasoline and Apple and the littler guy
It was the oil price, Appleand the littler guy, retail giant Walmart that were themes gaining traction on Thursday.
Trending - How low can oil go?
Capital Economics gives a typical economists' answer: on the one hand, $20 a barrel look feasible, while on the other, $50 a barrel looks likely by the end of the decade.
Asda cuts prices by £500mln as supermarket wars intensify
US-owned chain slashes prices to keep up with discounters
Trending - 'Black Friday', Thanksgiving, retail sales and Citigroup
After the Turkey feasts enjoyed across the US yesterday, traders were probably feeling like the morning after the night before today. .
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Wall Street fails to hold gains
A selloff in utilities and energy shares overpowered upbeat results from Wal-Mart and Home Depot.
Wall Street shares on front foot
Investors shrugged off fears to buy shares on Tuesday....
Wall Street struggles for direction
Investors weigh a pair of mixed economic reports, upbeat earnings from retailers.
U.S. Risers/Fallers: OxySure, Propanc, Power Solutions, MusclePharm, Wal-Mart, American Green, Abeon
Below are the main news driven share price changes at 9:56 a.m. in New York on Tuesday: