A chain of more than 450 Little Sheep restaurants scattered throughout China has agreed to a takeover offer made last April by Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM). Yum, with more than 4,000…
Dunkin’ Brands Inc. (NASDAQ: DNKN) has signed a new deal with its subsidiary National DCP LLC, under which National will be the exclusive supply chain provider for Dunkin’s more than 7,000 US…
Jon OggMost investors are likely glad that 2012 is here to have 2011 behind them. This is an election year and many investors are wondering whether the U.S. and its large companies…
The primary reason, it is often argued, that China is an important market for many large U.S. companies is that its population has doubled since the early 1960s. But the whole picture…
As each new year replaces the prior year, 24/7 Wall St. looks at the individual targets on all 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average price targets from Wall Street analysts to come up…
The lineup of the Dogs of the Dow, simply the ten highest dividend yield stocks of the thirty Dow Jones Industrial Average components, appears to be undergoing a bit of change for…
Congress, close to a budget agreement, may avoid a government shutdown. (Reuters) Washington Mutual shareholders and creditors set a deal that could allow an exit from bankruptcy. (Reuters) The policy meeting of…
Jon Corzine of MF Global says he does not know where much of the firm’s funds went. (Reuters) Samsung wins the legal fight over whether it can sell its tablet PC in…
McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) reported that global same-store sales rose 7.4% in November as each of the company’s three geographic regions posted gains. In the US and Europe, sales were up 6.5%,…
Paul Ausick The economic choppiness is coming to a head with the age of dividend hikes. The pressure is going to remain for companies to continue returning capital to shareholders while also looking for…
The recession-proof, big-dividend-paying, 52-week-high-trading, largest fast food company on the globe, McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) posted remarkable same-store sales worldwide. McDonald’s global comparable sales growth of 5.5% in October. In the U.S., comparable sales…
Douglas A. McIntyre Stocks opened higher this morning, helped along by a host of merger announcements. Techs got boost when Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) said it would pay $1.5 billion for cloud-based customer service provider…
Jon OggThese are some of this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this morning. Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) added to Strong Buy List at Zacks.…
A raft of good earnings reports pushed the markets higher at opening this morning, sending the Dow Industrials up about 200 points at mid-day. For some reason traders are hopeful that this…
We have already seen waves and waves of earnings reports this week, yet we have many more Dow Jones Industrial Average companies reporting earnings and several other key companies that investors and…
