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Consumer

Walmart, Uniqlo Join Retailers Touting Ways to Navigate Trade War

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A handful of retail executives hinted this week that they are eyeing some strategic advantages and opportunities amid the trade war.

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Consumer

Walmart, Target Work to Limit the Impact of Tariffs

Setting prices is a contact sport for retailers, and companies have been warning all year that things would get a little rough.

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Consumer

Klarna Swipes Key Walmart Partnership Ahead of US IPO

It seems like Affirm’s buy-now-pay-later partnership with Walmart wasn’t on quite such firm ground, after all.

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Consumer

Guidance Overshadows Growth as Walmart Shares Go Tumbling

Walmart said Thursday that it made a record $681 billion in sales, and yet its shares had their worst day in three years, tumbling 6.5%.

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Big Tech

Will Amazon Be a Victim of the Trade War?

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Morgan Stanley estimates that about 25% of the cost of Amazon’s first-party products comes from China, making it vulnerable to tariffs.

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Consumer

Target Fires the Latest Shot in the Retail Value Wars

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Target announced it will be slashing the prices of some 2,000 products, including food, beverages, gifts, and other home-holiday essentials.

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Finance

What’s Fueling the Market Rebound?

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The S&P 500, having recovered all its losses from earlier this month, sits just less than 2% away from the all-time peak it reached in July.

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