About this episode

The episode discusses Apple briefly becoming the most valuable publicly traded company, Walmart's new leadership, and rising consumer sentiment in July.

Plus: Walmart has a new leader at the top of its U.S. business. And consumer sentiment climbed in July. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor.

People in this episode

Host: Alex Ossola

Topics covered

• business news
• consumer sentiment
• corporate leadership
• technology
• stock market

Keywords

• Apple
• Walmart
• consumer sentiment
• most valuable company
• business news

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Organizations: Apple, Walmart

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