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Crypto investors got a fresh injection of volatility on Monday, after Litecoin (LTC-USD) spiked — then quickly tanked — after news of a partnership with Walmart (WMT) was exposed as a hoax. Litecoin rallied as high at 25% in under half an hour, after a fake announcement circulated early Monday that stated the U.S. retail giant would allow customers to pay in the digital currency. It spurred LTC up from $174 to a session high of $232 — before it came back to earth once Walmart knocked… Source link

Walmart (WMT), the nation’s largest private employer, is raising wages for 565,000 of its nearly 1.2 million store associates, marking the retailer’s third wage hike for hourly associates in the last year. “Effective Sept. 25, associates in the Frontend, Food & Consumable and General Merchandise work groups will receive at least a $1 an hour raise. That means a raise for more than 565,000 store associates. It’s our third wage investment in store associates over the past year,” U.S…. Source link

Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Last week’s bullish calls included big tech stocks and a rare earth materials producer. Cryptocurrency and the leading electric vehicle maker were among the bearish calls seen. The past week was another rough one on Wall Street, with the tumult in Afghanistan giving investors something new to worry about, in addition to the ongoing concerns about the Delta variant, China, inflation, Federal Reserve… Source link

Despite COVID-19 Delta variant fears beginning to weigh on consumer confidence and spending plans, the world’s largest retailer Walmart (WMT) says consumer behavior remains stable.  “We are not seeing a major shift in consumer behaviors at this point,” Walmart CFO Brett Biggs told Yahoo Finance when asked about current consumer trends. Biggs said the drivers of consumer spending in recent quarters — a high savings rate and rebounding jobs market — remain intact and are helping to fuel… Source link

Walmart (WMT), the world’s largest retailer, reported better-than-expected second-quarter revenue and sales results, driven by store traffic and stimulus check spending that bolstered its footprint in grocery sales in the face of surging COVID-19 infections nationwide. Here are the results versus the estimates, according to Bloomberg: Adjusted EPS: $1.78 v. $1.57 estimate Revenue: $141 billion v. $136.88 billion Walmart U.S. comp-store sales (excluding gas): 5.2% v. 3.12% estimate Walmart U.S…. Source link

The world’s largest retailer sees its stock come alive again, finally. Walmart’s stock (WMT) has widely lagged the S&P 500 (^GSPC) this year (3.8% gain for Walmart vs. 18% gain for the S&P 500) as investors fret about slowing sales and earnings growth after a big year of consumers stocking up during the height of the pandemic in 2020. Inflation in labor and transportation (as mentioned by vendors to Walmart in the past few weeks such as Clorox, Proctor & Gamble and Kimberly-Clark) and what… Source link

Photo by: BBB/STAR MAX/IPx 2021 2/24/21 A Walmart is seen in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Walmart (WMT), the nation’s largest private employer, says it will start paying 100% of the tuition for its debt-free college perk as part of a $1 billion commitment to career training and development over the next five years. In the summer of 2018, the big-box retailer began offering its 1.5 million U.S. associates debt-free college, as part of its $1-a-day college tuition perk, called Live Better U. Beginning… Source link

Clover Health (CLOV) is joining other Medicare Advantage (MA) plans in offering a grocery benefit to its members, an option that was first made available by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2018.  Clover CEO Vivek Garipalli told Yahoo Finance the goal is to help alleviate health-determining factors, known in the industry as social determinants of health, which include access to healthy food. Major MA players like Humana (HUM) and Centene (CNC) have already begun to… Source link

Walmart (WMT) is launching the first-ever and only private brand analog insulin, offering a steep discount on the prescription used to control high blood sugar in millions of diabetes patients. The new brand, ReliOn NovoLog, includes analog insulin vials retailing for $72.88 and a FlexPen selling for $85.88, translating to savings of 58% and 75%, respectively, on the current cash price of branded insulin products when not using insurance. According to Walmart, that works out to be savings of… Source link

UKRAINE – 2021/04/29: In this photo illustration, a Google logo seen displayed on a smartphone and a … [+] pc screen. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images In the fight for share of market, it was first a battle that had Walmart WMT pursuing Amazon AMZN . Now, the battlefield has gotten more competitive as Google’s new partnership with Shopify SHOP is a direct challenge to both… Source link