Retail giant Wal-Mart played a major part in the fight for equality when its CEO spoke out against a bill that would let businesses discriminate on religious beliefs, writes Nathan Layne in Chicago    

The world’s richest person got even richer this year. Bill Gates’s net worth rose to $79.2bn in 2015 from $76bn last year, Forbes said.

Tracy Morgan’s health is said to be improving after a horrific highway crash in which he was badly injured and one of his friends killed.

Global retail giant Wal-Mart Stores has recalled a donkey meat product from some Chinese stores after tests found traces of other animals’ DNA, the company has confirmed. Authorities said it contained fox meat.

A worker who says he was sacked when he tried to help a woman being assaulted in a US store car park has been offered his job back.

Wal-Mart Stores once again leads Fortune Magazine’s list of the 500 biggest US companies by revenue, as the world’s biggest retailer succeeded in posting strong growth despite a challenging economy for its shoppers.

An eight-story building that housed garment factories and shops collapsed in Bangladesh yesterday, killing nearly 100 people and injuring more than 1,000.

ADRIANA Garcia won’t be buying her family Christmas gifts this year.

The worst week for the US stock market in two months ended with a whimper in thin trading today.

Wal-Mart Stores says its second-quarter profit rose 5.7%, fuelled by strong international sales and cost-cutting.

Markets on both sides of the Atlantic were slightly lower today as fresh concerns about the European banking system cooled the September rally.

Financial stocks dragged Wall Street lower today as traders worried that last week’s rally was overdone.

Police in the US are scouring surveillance video of a post-Thanksgiving stampede in a bid to identify bargain-obsessed shoppers who trampled a Wal-Mart worker to death - then refused to leave the store.

Wall Street kept up a broad winning streak today, giving blue chip stocks their fifth straight advance as investors looked for clues about whether dire predictions for the holiday shopping season would prove accurate.

Shares tumbled today as US investors reacted to a stunning reshaping of the landscape of Wall Street.

Supermarket chain Asda today said sales of its budget ranges were more than 20% higher as customers focused on bargains in the face of rising costs.

ASDA, Wal-Mart Stores’s British supermarket chain, may open stores in Ireland, the Sunday Business Post said, without saying where it got the information.

Wall Street surged today as investors looked past a sharp rebound in oil prices and focused on comforting news about the US economy – better-than-expected retail sales and a drop in the number of laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits.

Supermarket Asda pledged to protect shoppers from inflationary pressures today after it revealed a 5% hike in underlying first quarter sales.

Wall Street rallied today as oil prices, supported by a stronger dollar, fall back and alleviate some of investors’ concerns about accelerating inflation.

Wal-Mart Stores has remained the world's largest retailer, according to a new survey.

Wall Street soared today, propelling the Standard & Poor's 500 index and Dow Jones industrials to record highs as bright spots among generally sluggish retail sales allowed investors to cast aside concerns about the health of the US economy.

Wall Street had a mixed day after investors, uneasy about the US government’s forthcoming inflation data, cashed in some of their gains from the market’s months-long rally.

Wall Street pulled back today after investors were largely unimpressed by retail sales figures and strong profit reports from Walt Disney and Electronic Data Systems.

Wall Street was narrowly mixed today as lingering concerns about the US economy offset better-than-expected sales from Asda owner Wal-Mart Stores and a flurry of acquisition activity.

Stocks fell on Wall Street today in thin trading, ending a shortened week quietly as the holiday shopping season began and attention turned to retailers and a steep decline in the dollar against other major currencies.

Stocks fell on Wall Street today in thin trading, ending a shortened week quietly as the holiday shopping season began and attention turned to retailers and a steep decline in the dollar against other major currencies.

Wall Street extended its decline today, dipping lower after the Labour Department said productivity was flat in the third quarter while wages rose nearly 4%.

Wall Street ended an erratic session narrowly mixed today, largely shrugging off a lacklustre sales report from Wal-Mart Stores and news of weak consumer spending last month.

Wall Street extended its October rally today as US investors grew more optimistic about earnings reports and a decline in oil bolstered hope for higher consumer spending.

American retial giant Wal-Mart Stores will reportedly pay about £560m (€832m) to buy a chain of 100 hypermarkets in China in a deal that could vault it ahead of competitors to become the country’s biggest food and department store network.

IT could be the ultimate marriage of two ideologies. Wal-Mart, the capitalist retailer for the masses, now has its first communist branch.

Wall Street closed out an uneasy May with a solid advance today, even after minutes from the last Federal Reserve meeting indicated that inflation pressures raised the chance of another interest rate hike in June. The major indexes ended the month broadly lower.

Inflation fears pushed stocks modestly lower on Wall Street today as a surge in US wholesale prices obscured data showing signs of a moderating economic growth.

US stocks climbed today as strong April retail sales and a steep drop in oil prices alleviated investors’ worries about a greater-than-forecast jump in labour costs.

Wall Street’s interest rate anxiety sent stocks moderately lower today after comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke compounded investors’ concerns about surging oil prices and a weak US dollar.

Wall Street made an auspicious start to December today with stocks soaring as investors welcomed inflation-friendly economic data and hoped the November rally would continue through year-end.

Wall Street rallied today as oil prices tumbled, the service sector reported strong growth and investors embraced large-cap stocks such as Wal-Mart Stores, Coca-Cola and Home Depot.

John Walton, the billionaire son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and the 11th richest person in the world, has died in a plane crash in Wyoming.

US investors abandoned blue chips and other large-cap stocks today as a lower-than-expected consumer confidence report fed into Wall Street’s fears of an economic slowdown.

Stocks tumbled sharply on Wall Street today as a second-quarter profit warning from Asda owners Wal-Mart Stores overshadowed strong economic news and a sharp drop in oil prices.

A consortium of two private-equity firms and a real estate developer has reportedly agreed to pay $5.7bn (€4.2bn) to buy all of New Jersey-based Toys R Us, the second-biggest toy retailer in the US.