Walmart bulks up online operations

Walmart continues to aggressively build its e-commerce operations in response to strong competition from online giant Amazon.com. In addition, it’s making better use of its existing stores and distribution networks to speed up the delivery of online purchases.
The company is also making big investments in… Read More

Parent & spinoff set their own course

On November 1, 2015, the old Hewlett-Packard Co. split into two firms—Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP Inc. For every share they held in the old HP, shareholders received one share in each of the new companies.
The old HP expected the computer services business (HP Enterprise) would… Read More

Here are five top ETF buys and 1 sell

The six ETFs we update below mainly hold high-quality stocks that are widely traded on Canadian and U.S. exchanges. Each fund tracks the performance of a major stock market index. That’s different from ETFs focused on narrower indexes or themes such as cryptocurrencies or biotechnology.
Of… Read More

Abobe takes on Amazon

ADOBE SYSTEMS INC. $256.13 (Nasdaq symbol ADBE; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (408-536-6000; www.adobe.com; Shares outstanding: 492.5 million; Market cap: $124.4 billion; No dividends paid) has agreed to buy e-commerce software company Magento Commerce for $1.68 billion. That firm produces software to combine digital e-commerce, order management,… Read More