Companies /Consumer Cyclical

Yum Brands Inc

NYSE: YUM Restaurants
$154.45
▲ $3.21 (+2.12%) today
Markets closed · 2:56am ET

YUM Coverage Page 17

6:27am ET
Investing

Media Digest (4/11/2013) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

courtesy of AOL, IncToyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM), Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (NYSE: HMC) and Nissan will recall 3.4 million cars over airbag defects. (Reuters) Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) faces slow…

Douglas A. McIntyre
10:05am ET
Retail

Bird Flu Outbreak Threatens Yum! Brands

courtesy of KFCShares of Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) plunged this morning following a downgrade on the company’s shares from analysts at UBS. The company already had forecast a weaker first half…

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Paul Ausick
7:05am ET
Health and Healthcare

How the U.S. Is Making the Rest of the World Fat

ThinkstockPeople who live in nations where most residents were thin, at least as measured against the tremendous number of obese Americans, are getting fatter. Bloomberg blames this, in part, on the number…

Douglas A. McIntyre
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What Is Important in the Financial World (4/4/2013)

ThinkstockEuropean Recession Worsens Just when it seemed that the economic data from the European Union could not get worse, new service sector purchasing managers index (PMI) information from Markit shows that the collapse…

Douglas A. McIntyre
6:27am ET
Investing

DJIA Stocks That Could Kill the Rally

No matter how well the general market does, the advance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average still relies on just 30 stocks. Some have outrun their current values, and drops in those shares…

Douglas A. McIntyre
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Investing

Twenty Sinful Companies to Give Up for Lent

ThinkstockAs Fat Tuesday quickly turns into Ash Wednesday, Lent will take place from Wednesday, February 13 to Saturday, March 30 in 2013. It may not seem like much on the surface, but…

Jon C. Ogg
9:20am ET
Retail

Sales Continue Slide at McDonald’s

courtesy of McDonald'sJanuary same-store sales continued to slide at McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD), falling by 1.9% globally during the month. U.S. sales were up 0.9%, but sales in Europe fell 2.1% and…

Paul Ausick
4:04pm ET
Investing

24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — February 5, 2013: Markets Recover from Yesterday’s Slump (CLWR, M, SWC, DRI, UNH, CYOU, GCI, HUM, GOLD, RCL, SPG, CLX, APC, BIDU, EW, YUM, AGCO, AGN, ACI, ADM, ARMH, BP, ETN, EL, SIRI, K, CMG, EXPE, GNW, TTWO, DIS, ZNGA, CVS, MRO, NUS, RL, SYT, TWX, DELL, OPXA, MHP)

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning and maintained their upward momentum for essentially the whole day. Lacking any really bad news from Asia or Europe, U.S. markets shrugged off a weaker…

Paul Ausick