{"id":52806,"date":"2015-06-24T01:49:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T17:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=52806"},"modified":"2015-06-24T01:49:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T17:49:03","slug":"facebook-now-worth-more-than-wal-mart-on-stock-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/24\/facebook-now-worth-more-than-wal-mart-on-stock-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook now worth more than Wal-Mart on stock market"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31515\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31515\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_171252086.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31515\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_171252086.jpg\" alt=\"Gil C \/ Shutterstock.com\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_171252086.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_171252086-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_171252086-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_171252086-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gil C \/ Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Facebook is now bigger than Wal-Mart, at least when it comes to its value on the stock market.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s biggest online social network knocked the world&#8217;s largest retailer out of the top 10 list of the highest-valued companies in the Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s 500 index on Monday and the gap widened on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook Inc. was valued at $242.7 billion as of late morning trading, its share price up more than 2 percent at $86.59. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., meanwhile, was valued at $233.8 billion, its stock price down 21 cents at $72.58.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has been on a roll this past year, its shares up about 32 percent in the past year compared with just 8.2 percent for the S&amp;P 500 index. Its quarterly results have consistently surpassed expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Facebook is now bigger than Wal-Mart, at least when it comes to its value on the stock &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":31515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-business","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}