One reason, he said, was that Wal-Mart is taking advantage of the slumping advertising market to increase its advertising.

他说，其中一个原因是沃尔玛抓住了广告市场下滑的机会加大了广告力度。

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Last week Wal-Mart pulled the plug on its German operations, selling its 85 hypermarkets to Metro, the local market leader.

上个星期沃尔玛停止了德国市场的运作，将85个店铺都卖给了德国当地零售巨头麦德龙。

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Brian Sozzi, an analyst at Wall Street Strategies, notes that "one key thing in [the Massmart] deal for Wal-Mart is to gain market share through increased volume which comes from lower prices."

来自华尔街的行业战略分析师布莱恩·索兹（Brian Sozzi）提到“对沃尔玛来讲，这次购并的一大关键目的是要通过压低价格来增加销售额，进而扩大（在非洲的）市场份额。”

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Learning a lesson from its experience in Mexico, where it had to add to its Cifra stake by buying shares at ever-higher prices on the open market, Wal-Mart purchased warrants to potentially raise its Seiyu position to 67%.

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As an added blow, Circuit City--and its suppliers--has lost market share to rivals such as Best Buy and Wal-Mart.

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Professor ANNE JOSEPH (University of California-Berkeley): Wal-Mart will face exceptional pressure from the stock market and from others to settle and not to actually have it play out to completion with an actual damage award coming out of the federal court system.

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