It was twenty-five years ago today that the 1987 stock market crash came. Fortunes were lost on that day, but fortunes were also made in the aftermath. The NYSE was said to…
McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) reported third-quarter results before markets opened this morning. The fast-food restaurant chain posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.43 on revenues of $7.15 billion. In the…
China bashing by U.S. politicians is not akin to warships on alert and bitter arguments over the fate of the relatively small Senkaku Islands, to which China and Japan each lay claim.…
Some of the companies that trade as part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average already have reported earnings for the third quarter. The fate of their share prices, at least for now,…
Based on its latest earnings, Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) did well in the United States and China, its big growth markets. Or, China is a problem because growth has slowed there. The…
The coming fiscal cliff represents a huge hurdle for America. Government and private sector forecasters have warned that the expiration of tax cuts, along with hundreds of billions of dollars in government…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning following a weaker-than-expected report on U.S. personal income and inline personal consumption spending (more coverage here). U.S. markets followed Europe, where today’s…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Friday. ADTRAN Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) cut to Underperform at BofA/ML. AGCO Corp. (NYSE: AGCO) named…
The real trouble for U.S. companies that operate abroad is supposedly sales in the European Union. Legions of public corporations with significant portions of their revenue from the region will report that a slow…
Worker productivity is among the most critical measurements used when evaluating businesses and national economies. One way to measure productivity is sales per employee. Companies that can achieve the highest revenue with…
McDonald’s Corp.’s (NYSE: MCD) board of directors approved a 10% increase in the company’s quarterly dividend on common stock, to 77 cents a share. The new dividend is payable Dec. 17 to…
Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM), which owns KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell stores, today raised its quarterly dividend from $0.285 to $0.335, an annual hike of about 18%. The annual dividend…
McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) will begin to post the number of calories in all of its foods on the above-the-counter and drive-thru menus of its nearly 14,000 U.S. stores. The world’s largest fast-food…
Douglas A. McIntyre The Federal Reserve likely will release plans for a stimulus package after members meet today. (Reuters) EADS and BAE hold merger talks. (Reuters) Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5 may have more…
McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) has decided to allow consumers to make more healthy decisions, or at least less unhealthy decisions. The company announced today that McDonald’s USA will start as soon as…
