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Target CEO Unfazed By Amazon-Whole Foods Deal
US retail giant Target's chief executive Brian Cornell on Tuesday played down Amazon's massive deal to acquire grocery...
Amazon Buys Whole Foods Market At Whooping US$13.7 Billion
Amazon announced Friday that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery store chain, for 42 U. S. dollars per share,...
Snap Plunges As Wall Street Loses Ground
The Snapchat owner was among the biggest losers after posting disapointing results for first quater Wall Street closed...
Car Bomb Hits Thailand’s Troubled South, Injures 51
More than 50 people including children were injured on Tuesday when a car bomb exploded outside a supermarket in...
Car Bomb Hits Thailand’s Troubled South, Injures 40
At least 40 people were wounded Tuesday when a car bomb exploded outside a supermarket in Thailand's insurgency-plagued...
Dollar General’s Sales Jump 13.7 Percent
U. S. discount retailer Dollar General Corp (DG.N) reported a 13.7 percent increase in quarterly sales on Thursday,...
S.Africa’s Massmart Reports 16 Pct Jump In FY Profit
South African retailer Massmart reported an almost 16 percent rise in full-year profit on Thursday, as the firm...
Higher Customer Traffic Boosts Wal-Mart’s Sales; Margins Under Pressure
Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT. N) on Tuesday reported higher-than-expected U.S. sales, helped by more customer visits to its...
With Stocks At Highs, Investors Eye Consumer Results
U. S. stock investors may look to a host of results from consumer-facing companies including Wal-Mart Stores Inc...
“It Would Be Huge”: U.S. Border Town Confronts Possible Import Tax
For up to 16 hours a day, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and mangoes grown in Mexico flow north through a border...
Alibaba’s Ma Meets Trump, Promises To Bring One Million Jobs To U.S.
Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma met U. S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday and laid out the Chinese e-commerce...
Republicans Aim To Coax Trump Toward House Trade Tax Plan
Republicans in the U. S. Congress hope to convince President-elect Donald Trump to support an untested strategy of...
S.Korean Prosecutors To Investigate President Next Week Over Confidante Scandal
South Korean prosecutors plan to investigate President Park Geun-hye early next week over Park’s biggest political...