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5 Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week - TheStreet

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Join Gregg Greenberg every Friday as he skewers Wall Street's bad actors, lampoons their worst ideas and makes a show of the five dumbest things on Wall Street this week -- a weekly tradition since 2001.

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Walmart Bears Are The Dumbest Thing on Wall Street

By Kinsey Grant
In the age of Amazon, everyone is at risk. But Walmart has shown it can roll with the punches, sending its stock to new highs and serving up innovation that only a retailer 55 years in the making could conjure up. This holiday season, Walmart could be calling checkmate.
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11/20/17 7:00AM

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5 Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week

By Gregg Greenberg
Sexy can't save SodaStream, Intercept's stock discovered gravity and Elon Musk's star power sways investors, all as part of Gregg Greenberg's latest roundup of the dumbest news from the financial halls of power.
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1/17/14 7:00AM

5 Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week

By Gregg Greenberg
General Mills' tries a Seinfeld schtick, Select gets shellacked, Madoff's bankers pay up and more, all on this week's 5 Dumbest Things on Wall Street.
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1/10/14 7:00AM

The 5 Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week: WMT BBRY AVP

By Gregg Greenberg
The 'Dumbest' lab says bye to BlackBerry and fingers Avon's ugliness among other corporate foolishness this week.
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The 5 Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week: March 8

By Gregg Greenberg
Ron Johnson, Perpetual Dumbest Thing, returns, along with Sohu and Groupon's Andrew Mason.
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3/8/13 7:00AM

The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week: March 1

By Gregg Greenberg
Martha Stewart, Live Nation and Vivus - among others - make this week's list of the biggest business bloopers.
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3/1/13 7:00AM

The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week: Feb. 22

By Gregg Greenberg
Burger King, Wal-Mart and Heinz make the cut -- to their dismay -- in the list of the biggest business bloopers.
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2/22/13 7:00AM

The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week: Feb. 15

By Gregg Greenberg
Cars, boats and, er, a fat-zapping belt -- none of which work properly -- made shareholders cringe.
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2/15/13 7:00AM

The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week: Feb. 8

By Gregg Greenberg
We start in Italy and end in Washington D.C., taking in Vegas (casinos) and California (PCs). Oh, yeah: more Herbalife.
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2/8/13 7:00AM

The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week: Feb. 1

By Gregg Greenberg
The Herbalife saga gets more insane. Plus, Yum's bad chicken, Penney's backpedaling, Tupperware's elitism and Chesapeake's good, old boy rides into the sunset.
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2/1/13 7:00AM

The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week: Jan. 25

By Gregg Greenberg
Gregg Greenberg skewers the biggest companies that made the best bloopers.
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1/25/13 7:00AM

The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week: Jan. 18

By Gregg Greenberg
The culprits this week include Boeing, Given Imaging, Facebook, Herbalife and HP.
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1/18/13 8:17AM

The 5 Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week: Jan. 11

By Gregg Greenberg
This week, we travel from New York to Omaha to North Korea to round up the biggest bloopers in business.
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1/11/13 9:28AM

The 5 Dumbest Things on Wall Street: Predictions for 2013

By Gregg Greenberg
These events are virtually guaranteed to take place this year. Just wait and see.
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1/4/13 8:06AM

The 10 Dumbest Things on Wall Street in 2012

By Gregg Greenberg
In a year of outstanding stupidity, these take the cake.
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12/28/12 7:00AM

The 10 Dumbest Things on Wall Street in 2012

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In a year of stupidity in the corporate world, these stand out.
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