Walmart

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) released strong earnings for the second quarter of 2019, injecting a dose of positive news into a worrisome economic situation. As the world's largest retailer, the company is often seen as a bellwether for the overall retail landscape. Walmart posted adjusted earnings per...

Ka-ching! Amid swirling investor anxiety over the state of the world economy, it seems that consumers are offering the market a bright spot by continuing to spend at the cash register and online.  Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) shares jumped over 6% after the retailing giant reported earnings,...

On today's episode we're talking about the dow dropping, freight rates popping, California's new CORE program, Freight Futures, project44 adding visibility to Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT), Market Expert Trivia, Big Deal Little Deal and so much more. Rewatch the LIVE...

project44, the Chicago-based visibility solution provider, has secured major contracts with Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT), two of the world's largest retailers, FreightWaves has learned. These customer acquisitions are significant not only because of the retailers'...

Walmart Inc.'s (NYSE: WMT) delivery pilot with autonomous vehicle company Gatik highlights the retail giant's continued investment in self-driving solutions as well as growing interest in the so called "middle-mile" segment of the distribution network.  The pilot, announced on July 25, will use...

Benzinga has examined prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included leaders in the aerospace, media and retail sectors. Some bearish calls were prompted by quarterly earnings reports. The second-quarter earnings reporting season kicked off this past week,...

E-commerce is booming, but who will come out on top? FreightWaves economists talk total retail sales and how e-commerce factors into the equation.  

Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) said it plans to invest $1.2 billion to build or renovate more than 10 distribution centers in China during the next 10 to 20 years. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based company operates more than 20 DCs in China, which support 420 locations in 180 cities. The company opened...

Wall Street parades into July 4 with stocks at record highs and with jobs data and earnings season straight ahead. At the same time, small-cap stocks are lagging a bit and Treasury yields continue to forecast some caution. The situation now is one that many are struggling to understand. Yesterday...

This weekend's Barron's cover story takes a look at whether the hot IPO market is a bubble. Other featured articles review Dividend Aristocrats on a roll and offer the results from a survey of tech CIOs. Also, the prospects for a pharmaceutical merger, a best-in-class cruise line operator...

Good day, The "shipper of choice" designation is gaining cache. That's a good thing because it means shippers are grasping the importance of working fairly and intelligently with their providers. But as Chris Jones, executive vice president at logistics provider Descartes Systems Group writes in...

Working with over 100 outside carriers and brokers, Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) is likely to be a shipper of choice for many already. But even one of the U.S. freight industry's largest customers realized it could do better for drivers. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based company came in third in a field...

Today on FreightWaves NOW, our market experts give us a glimpse of optimism for air freight, and Wal-Mart Inc (NYSE: WMT) throws down the last-mile delivery gauntlet. Plus, the developing oil tanker situation and what it might mean for oil.

On time. In full. Not yet, at least as far as Walmart Inc.'s (NYSE: WMT) international delivery operations are concerned. In May 2018, the mega-retailer expanded to multiple international markets a program begun in the U.S. in July 2017 requiring that suppliers deliver full orders within "must...

Transplace has hired a former Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) executive who helped oversee transportation and supply chain operations. Tracy Rosser will serve as executive vice president for operations at the transportation management services and logistics technology firm, which announced the appointment...