Next week will mark the true ‘opening the floodgates’ for earnings season. We have given some brief earnings previews and added in color for the DJIA components set to report earnings in…
August oil futures quoted on NYMEX moved just shy of $100 this week. That number was $90 in late June. No amount of crude released from strategic oil reserves or a belief…
Douglas A. McIntyre Most of the financial media stops at mid-year to reflect on how the market performed since January 1. The effort is often fruitless. The fact that a stock, or any market, did…
U.S. investors are now getting a Renminbi (Yuan) and bond fund to invest in via an open-ended mutual fund structure. An announcement has been made by Guinness Atkinson Asset Management that it…
There are several ways in which companies can return money to shareholders, but the two most common methods of returning cash to shareholders are dividends and stock buybacks. Dividends are rarely controversial…
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesOne theory of economics says that any market can return to a point where it has been in the past. The Great Recession was, by some measures as…
Wages worldwide have stagnated and consumer spending has been pressured by rising commodities prices. People may not be able to afford to buy cars and houses. It turns out, however, that they…
The world of casual dining and dining is one which has survived bad times and thrived in good times. It turns out that some of the casual dining segment, particularly the fast…
From California, to the New York Island; from the redwood forest, to the Gulf Stream waters, this land is filled with fatties, lard butts and people large enough to have their own…
Wendy’s/Arby’s Group, Inc. (NYSE: WEN) is soon to just be Wendy’s again, sort of. The company has been exploring alternatives to try to unlock the value of the two unsuccessfully merged Wendy’s…
ThinkstockAs is the case with crude oil, people just can’t seem to get enough coffee. Global consumption of coffee rose 2.4% in 2010, to 134 million bags (each bag weighs about 132…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) Started as Buy at Deutsche…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Douglas A. McIntyre Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) buried some of its essential P&L data and information about its US operations in its first quarter earnings release. Most of the highlights of the report are about…
Attention America’s obese children: Your parents made you fat. Ronald McDonald is probably not to blame. That’s not the message that America’s food police — nutritional do-gooders — who want McDonald’s Corp.…
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