Add some to the list, take a few off, future settlement, continuing to seemingly “boil the ocean,” and monitor costs.
This time of year is heavy on annual reports and other corporate disclosures and this post rounds up various scrutiny alerts and updates.
Albemarle Corp.
The North Carolina based chemical company recently disclosed:
Checking In on Wal-Mart
It’s always a best practice not to believe everything in a newspaper which cites to unnamed sources, but in any event the Wall Street Journal reports:
“Wal-Mart Stores Inc. tried and failed to settle a foreign-bribery probe that has stretched for five years and cost the company more than $820 million, according to people familiar with the federal investigation.
In the final weeks of the Obama administration, the world’s largest retailer and U.S. officials weren’t able to agree on a deal before Donald Trump’s inauguration, people familiar with the matter said. “Wal-Mart and the government are very far apart in terms of a settlement,’’ one of the people said Thursday.”
