Bloomberg Walmart Inc.’s online marketplace is getting more choosy. The retailer’s website — where third-party vendors sell their own wares — is adding far fewer sellers a month compared with a year ago, according to data tracker Marketplace Pulse. The site, which Walmart created in 2009 to compete with a similar offering from Amazon.com Inc., now includes about 18,000 sellers. …

Bloomberg After demand from China drove another quarter of rapid growth for LVMH, Chief Executive Officer Bernard Arnault is counting on e-commerce to help keep his luxury empire ahead of the pack. First-quarter sales rose 13 percent on an organic basis, the Paris-based owner of Sephora and Christian Dior said. That beat analysts’ average estimate of 8.5 percent and spurred …

Bloomberg Steinhoff International Holdings NV said two deals with entities related to its former chairman and biggest shareholder Christo Wiese didn’t follow proper disclosure processes, dragging the South African billionaire deeper into an accounting crisis. The agreements were made in the two months leading up to the emergence of financial irregularities that have wiped more than 90 percent off the …