Segments From This Episode

• Walmart to offer up to $20,000 in stock to managers annually

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  The largest private sector employer in the world, Walmart, is giving managers a new benefit as it competes for talent in a tight labor market: The retailer will offer store managers Walmart stock.

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• AI has helped Microsoft beat Apple to become the most valuable company in the world

  by Stephanie Hughes

  

  And investors will be hoping for more good news on that front when the company announces quarterly earnings.

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• TV ads speak directly to consumers’ economic anxiety

  by Kimberly Adams

  

  Advertisers are using people not having enough money for some things — college, a house — to encourage them to spend on other things — chicken wings, anybody?

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