12:15pm ET
Investing
Over Half of DJIA Stocks Outyield 30-Year Treasury Bond
The 30-year Treasury Bond yields only about 2.5% and, amazingly, more than half of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks are yielding more than that.
MCD Coverage Page 56
11:40am ET
Companies and Brands
Fees for Prepaid Cards Vary Widely — and Wildly
A survey of prepaid cards revealed wide variation in both the types of fees charged on the cards and the amount of those fees.
8:45am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: CONSOL, Garmin, IMAX, Microsoft, SAP, Windstream and More
Monday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades include CONSOL Energy, Garmin, IMAX, Microsoft, SAP and Windstream Holdings.
9:30am ET
Services
Why Analysts Are Concerned About Wage Hikes at McDonald’s
24/7 Wall St. has seen multiple analyst reports on McDonald's, now that the fast-food king finally has delivered on higher wages.
Chris Lange 10:45am ET
Companies and Brands
Wegmans, Publix, Trader Joe’s Big Winners in Supermarket Survey
In a recently completed survey of more than 62,000 supermarket customers, Consumer Reports rated Wegmans Publix and Trader Joe's at the top.
9:15am ET
Jobs
Job Growth Gets Slaughtered in March
The U.S. Department of Labor released its March payroll and unemployment data Friday morning, and it is hard to imagine how it could have been much worse.
10:55am ET
Services
McDonald’s Raises to Cost Nearly $200 Million
How much is this going to cost McDonald’s, and ultimately its shareholders, to raise wages for 90,000 employees who work in company-operated stores?
Paul Ausick 4:29pm ET
Services
McDonald’s Pay Hike Covers a Fraction of Employees
For the 90,000 or so employees who work in its 1,500 company-operated U.S. stores, McDonald's plans to boost the average pay to $10 per hour.
9:45am ET
Companies and Brands
Why the Buffett Role in Kraft Heinz Matters So Much
Perhaps it was one of those marriages that was inevitable. That is what the announced merger between Kraft Foods and H.J. Heinz seems to amount to.
6:48am ET
Special Report
The Worst Product Flops of All Time
The larger the company, the greater its capacity for taking risks. While pouring millions of dollars into market research and advertising campaigns can lead to tremendous successes, such ventures can also be…
8:45am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Chipotle, Duke, EMC, SanDisk, Starbucks, McDonald’s and More
Wednesday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades include Chipotle, Duke Energy, EMC, SanDisk, Starbucks and McDonald's.
8:40am ET
Services
McDonald’s Fails to Halt Sales Drop
McDonald's has announced same-store sales for February, and U.S. sales posted a big drop.
Paul Ausick 9:00am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: BP, Exxon, Exelon, Home Depot, Sirius XM, McDonald’s, Disney and More
Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include BP, Exxon Mobil, Exelon, Home Depot, Sirius XM, McDonald's, and Walt Disney.
6:44am ET
Media
Big Companies Still Cannot Find Success on Twitter
No single company has enough followers on Twitter to crack the list of the top 50 most followed. Google leads the list at number 103.
12:25pm ET
Services
Why Analysts May Now Prefer McDonald’s Over Yum Brands
According to some analysts, there appears to be a changing of the guard in the fast-food world, with McDonald's taking the place of Yum Brands.