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May 19, 2012 Bribery Case at Wal-Mart May Widen

Source: NY Times

As Wal-Mart reported higher-than-expected first-quarter earnings on Thursday, it suggested in a regulatory filing that the scope of an internal investigation into bribery accusations had widened beyond the retailer’s subsidiary...

May 19, 2012 Ecological Chains Worldwide Being Damaged

Source: PlanetSave.com

Subtle ecological chains worldwide are being damaged by human influence, leading to significant losses of population in different ecosystems. One of the longest ecological chains ever found has just been discovered in the remote...

May 19, 2012 S&P 500 Falls for 3rd Week in Longest Slump Since August

Source: BusinessWeek

U.S. stocks tumbled for a third week, pushing the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to its longest losing streak since August, amid concern global economic growth is slowing and Greece may leave the euro area.

May 19, 2012 The Risky Risk Management Practices at JPMorgan Chase

Source: Steve Denning, Forbes

As a taxpayer responsible for backing up JPMorgan in the case of a collapse, are you reassured to discover how CEO Jamie Dimon first learned of JPMorganChase’s possible $5 billion loss? It came, not from listening to his...

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AC Alert for May 14, 2012 The "London Whale" is Beached and Grounded

OK, let's be honest: Did anyone reading this Alert know who or what "The London Whale" was until last week's headlines? Market insiders knew who he or she or it was -- and apparently made big bets against The Whale -- costing...[more]

Sustainability / CR Reporting

G&A Institute is the Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) sole data partner for the United States of America, The United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland for monitoring, analyzing and databasing reporting results. This section of AC announces Sustainability and CR Reports as they are issued in the USA, UK and Ireland.  For even more detail on Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility Reporting in the USA please click on the GRI graphic above for access to our reports database maintained in SustainabilityHQ™.

United Kingdom Corporate Reporting

Tesco CR Report 2011

April 30, 2012 Source: Tesco
Barclays PLC Issues Citizenship Report for 2011

April 27, 2012 Source: Barclays

Ireland Corporate Reporting

GRI Releases Sustainability Taxonomy, Public Comments on G4

March 13, 2012 Source: Environmental Leader
Shell Ireland Sustainability Report

December 29, 2011 Source: Shell Ireland

Highlighted Materials from the profiles of SHQ

Select content from SustainabilityHQTM - profiling ESG Players; Public Pension Funds; Sovereign Investors; SRI Asset Managers.


Facebook Flops: Look Out Below!
May 19, 2012 - - Source: Barrons

Bribery Case at Wal-Mart May Widen
May 19, 2012 - - Source: NY Times

Chesapeake Energy to Cut Directors’ Pay
May 19, 2012 - - Source: NY Times

Chinese Solar Cells And The Solyndra Syndrome
May 19, 2012 - - Source: Investors.com

Ecological Chains Worldwide Being Damaged
May 19, 2012 - - Source: PlanetSave.com

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