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Wal-Mart Toughens Supplier Policies

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    FBN’s Adam Shapiro with an afternoon market update, plus news that Wal-mart is toughening its supplier policies after a fire at a sub-contractor clo...

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I'm Adam Shapiro -- your Fox Business briefly Ian Jones is barred from eighteen months from rating asset back -- government securities after reaching a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The SEC says -- Jones made material misstatements when registering to set up for rating agency.

Egan Jones tells Fox Business the company is pleased it settled with the SEC.

On mutual terms.

Wal-Mart is warning its global suppliers that it will adopt a zero tolerance policy on subcontracting.

Without its knowledge.

The tougher policy starts march 1 last November of fire killed more than 100 people at a garment factory in Bangladesh which had subcontracted with a Wal-Mart.

Clothing supplier Wal-Mart currently allows suppliers three chances to fix problems before cutting them off.

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