Have you noticed how many of America's leading companies have done little, or nothing, for shareholders lately? Or for that matter, a lot longer than just lately. Like for a decade? Of course General ...

Public Eye's Brian Montopoli is writing weekly dispatches for CBSNews.com while living and working in Berlin as part of the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program. He will return to Public Eye in October.

The math behind one of the stock market's biggest success stories. The company founded by Sam Walton credits its extreme focus on low prices for helping it grow from a tiny regional player into a ...

An unexpected, abrupt shut down of Wal-Mart would have major impacts. 1. Unemployment: Wal-Mart employs a staggering 1% of the working US population. The unemployment rate would go up by 1% overnight, ...

Eleven years ago, Wal-Mart Stores President and CEO Lee Scott announced the beginning of Wal-Mart’s sustainability leadership. Inspired by Wal-Mart's disaster relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina ...

After days of speculation, Wal-Mart Stores finally confirmed the worst-kept secret in retail, announcing on Monday morning its $3.3 billion acquisition of upstart Jet—the biggest deal in U.S.

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Wal-Mart has denied any wrongdoing and last Friday won a late-night emergency order from a judge in its hometown of Bentonville, Ark., barring Gabbard from talking to reporters. Seligman said he does ...