Wal-Mart Stores News
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The lowest inflation since the brink of the Kennedy-era economic boom in the 1960s is buying time for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke to press on with the central bank’s $85 billion in monthly bond purchases.
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Mark Cohen, who teaches at Columbia University’s business school in New York, is a former chairman and chief executive officer of Sears Canada. Don’t get him started on Eddie Lampert, the chief executive officer and majority owner of Sears Holdings Corp.
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William Morrison Supermarkets Plc’s 12-week sales advanced for a third straight month, signaling the U.K. grocer’s push to get shoppers back into its stores with revamped shops and fresh food is paying off.
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Provisions in the Affordable Care Act that penalize hospitals for excessive readmissions and encourage employers to offer wellness programs are slowing the growth of U.S. medical costs, even as the economy rebounds.
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General Electric Co. and Staples Inc. are among companies cited by an environment group for acting to cut emissions tied to global warming after Congress failed to pass climate-change legislation.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s board voted to appoint James Cash Jr. as its new lead independent director, said David Tovar, a company spokesman.
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Visa Inc. sued Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in a bid to stop the world’s largest retailer from bringing price-fixing claims over merchant swipe fees.
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Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP advised Safeway Inc., the second-largest U.S. grocery-store chain, on the sale of its Canadian stores to Empire Co.’s Sobeys Inc. unit for about C$5.8 billion ($5.7 billion) in cash.
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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus said raising minimum wages in Bangladesh’s garment manufacturing industry wouldn’t push apparel companies to leave the country.
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Safeway Inc., the second-largest U.S. grocery-store chain, rose the most in more than three months after agreeing to sell its Canadian stores to Empire Co.’s Sobeys Inc. unit for about C$5.8 billion ($5.7 billion).
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