Forbes Leadership Highlights of the Week: Is Wal-Mart Going Down?

By Marek Fuchs:Traders and the media have assumed a path-breaking turn in the ways and mores of the stock market: shareholders are going to rise up and be heard! Some have gone so far as to term this the Shareholder Spring, a reference to last year's Arab Spring, which upended old and deplorable regimes.

(Reuters) - Jerry Murray, the mid-level Wal-Mart Stores Inc executive who called

Shrinking US sales have Wal-Mart looking to small stores for growth. The world’s largest retailer, known for its giant supercenters, is finally giving small a chance.

By Trefis: Wal-Mart‘s (WMT) international business accounts for more than 40% of the retailer’s value according to our estimates. This can be attributed to its significant growth in international markets, which has averaged 12% annually for the last three years. Since Wal-Mart’s growth in the U.S.

Wal-Mart has expanded rapidly in Mexico. A report this week delves into how corruption played out in a town, where Wal-Mart was determined to build a supermarket near some ancient pyramids. Steve Inskeep talks to David Barstow, of The New York Times, about his continuing investigation into Wal-Mart's troubling business practices in Mexico.

By GMI Ratings: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT) confirmed this week that a previously disclosed investigation into bribery at its overseas units expanded into markets including Brazil, China and India.

By Dividendinvestr: By Palwasha Saaim

In our third day of tracking the wealth of??50 global billionaires via the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list, casino king Sheldon Adelson took a hit, while the Walton family bounced back. Even a pervasive??Mexican bribery scandal couldn?t keep Wal-Mart down for long.??After sliding 8.3% in just three days to start the week, Wal-Mart shares??rose 2.77% in ...