Topic: Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

The National Giveaway

For decades, the U.S. has moved away from being a nation that manufactured products to one that buys things that are made somewhere else. The latest evidence of this came in a series of questions we asked to more than 40,000 U.S. ...
Recently, US retail giant Wal-Mart made a big announcement relating to its plans to create a database which would reveal how environmental friendly its suppliers, manufacturers, and their products are. Just because you turn a blind eye to where your money is ...

WAL-MART WEIGHS IN

WAL-MART WEIGHS IN The Bentonville behemoth and the White House don't agree on much these days, but they found common ground on June 30 when Wal-Mart told the Obama Administration that it supports requiring employers to provide health insurance to workers. The ...
The recession and trough stock valuations have incited a plethora of discussions and articles on whether buy and hold is a viable investing practice. Figure 2 below shows that buying and holding Quality Systems, Inc. for the 15-year period was a very ...

Wal-Mart's Health Care Coup

The unions won't quit trying to organize Walmart (WMT) but the priority for that effort, not to mention funding, has probably slipped way down the ladder. They know how big the chits are that Walmart just got from the administration and they ...
Getting approve for a credit card, is like wow! When your finish, add the amount you owl on each credit card. shoe carnival BOGO card, CVS, Movie Rental Card and etc. Now get a wallet and put all those credit cards in ...
As many of you know, The Barrett Leadership Blog is committed to you developing your leadership in several areas of your life. One such area is finance, as your understanding, or lack thereof will have a tremendous impact on your quality of ...

The Case for Amazon.com

Monday morning in pre-market, I bought a few shares of Amazon. Amazon also allowed its competitors to sell on its website - how foolish can you be? Amazon has created a new market, very lucrative, and one which did not exist prior ...

Earning More Income From your Job

Holiday bonuses, overtime, performance incentives? these are NOT what I am going to talk about in this article. So how do you make extra money from your employer? First off compared to other ways of making extra money from your employer, this ...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is adding $4 generic drugs to its health insurance plans and offering lower premiums and deductibles, the third year in a row of changes to employee health benefits that have been a focus of union-led criticism of the nation's ...