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Disney, CVS, Uber, Chipotle, PayPal, and More Stocks to Watch This Week
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McDonald’s earnings haven’t been hit by higher prices, as ‘it just seems like Americans are more upset by the change in price at grocery stores’
Rising prices have kept diners away from many restaurants, but not McDonald’s Corp. As the ubiquitous burger chain prepares to report fourth-quarter results on Tuesday with its stock close to record h...
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Holdings Looks Invitingly Cheap
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman has a flair for the dramatic and often makes bold moves. This year has been no exception. Ackman made about $1.7 billion from a bet on higher interest rates and incurr...
Senior KFC Executives Opt for Retirement as Interest Rates Hit Pension Payouts
Rising interest rates are adding to companies’ borrowing costs and triggering higher credit-card bills for consumers. At KFC, they are driving a turnover in senior management. The Louisville, Ky.-base...
How the Inspire Brands CEO Learned to Care About Company Culture
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Chipotle Stock Could Heat Up. Here Comes a Speedy Robo Burrito Maker.
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Audits of Chinese Companies Start to Face U.S. Inspections
Updated Sept. 22, 2022 3:45 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) U.S. regulators have started inspecting China-based audits, kicking off a monthslong process that will determine whether companies from ...
It’s a great time to scoop up bargain stocks. Here are 21 examples that could make you a lot of money.
Are you a contrarian investor? Sometimes it seems everyone claims to be one, but it isn’t easy, especially after a wipeout such as the one we saw on Sept. 13. An investor who wishes to pay bargain pri...
20 value stocks whose growth potential is overlooked by investors
After a years-long bull market in growth stocks, the beleaguered value strategy has outperformed this year, as rising interest rates apply pressure on equities. Below is a screen of large-cap value st...
Who is the new Starbucks CEO? He has ‘deep’ knowledge of the consumer but lacks restaurant experience.
Investors didn’t appear to be too excited with Starbucks Corp.’s choice for its new chief executive officer, Laxam Narasimhan, but BTIG analyst Peter Saleh said they shouldn’t be surprised that he’s n...
New CEO of Starbucks — a ‘world-class leader,’ says Howard Schultz — will do a stint as barista
Starbucks Corp.’s soon-to-be chief executive is a “world-class leader” with deep knowledge of consumer-product companies and will spend time as a barista to get to know the company, the coffee chain’s...
Starbucks Names Laxman Narasimhan New CEO
Starbucks named as its new CEO consumer products executive Laxman Narasimhan, months after former head Howard Schultz temporarily took over to steer the coffee giant through rising costs, a unionizati...
Alibaba and JD.com Stocks Are Rising. Let the U.S. Audits Begin.
Text size Investors in Alibaba and other U.S.-listed Chinese stocks crave regulatory clarity. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Shares of Alibaba and JD.com were rising Wednesday following a report that...
Paramount Sues Company Behind McDowell’s Pop-Up, Citing ‘Coming to America’ Infringement
A pop-up restaurant that paid homage to the 1980s classic comedy “Coming to America” now faces a lawsuit from Paramount Pictures over copyright infringement. JMC Pop Ups LLC created a temporary versi...
AMD, PayPal, Starbucks, Uber, Paramount, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
It’s the peak stretch of second-quarter earnings season, with roughly 150 S&P 500 firms scheduled to report this week. The highlights on the economic calendar will be a pair of purchasing managers...
Large Fund Sells AMD Stock. It Bought Intel, AT&T and Starbucks.
Text size Dreamstime One of America’s largest public pensions has made big changes in some of its largest investments. In the second quarter, State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio nearly halved an ...
Starbucks, Uber, CVS to Report Earnings Amid Shrinking Economy
July 30, 2022 10:00 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) CVS Health Starbucks and Uber Technologies are among the companies headlining another busy earnings week as investors look for signs of a recess...
Stock Futures Are Rising. Afternoon Earnings Boosted Tech Shares.
Text size Traders, here on the New York Stock Exchange, were encouraged by the earnings posted Tuesday. (NYSE) U.S. stock futures were up Tuesday evening as investors processed a rush of second-quarte...
Robots are making french fries, chicken wings and more as restaurant kitchens gear up for an automated future
One of the first investments from Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.’s venture fund Cultivate Next is in Hyphen, a San Jose, Calif.-based robotics company whose product, The Makeline, organizes digital order...
Apple, Visa, Microsoft, Exxon Mobil, Chipotle, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
It will be a busy week on both the micro and macro fronts. Second-quarter earnings season ramps up, as more than 150 S&P 500 firms report, including Big Tech. The Federal Reserve’s policy committe...
Apple, Amazon, Meta Highlight Tech-Heavy Earnings Week
Tech giants Apple Amazon.com and Microsoft headline a busy earnings week amid growing investor fears of recession, rising interest rates and surging inflation. A little more than one-third of S&P ...
Opinion: ‘Quality’ companies are getting stronger yet their shares are down in this selloff. This is how to find the bargains.
If you’re a long-term investor, this year’s selloff is good news because it offers a great chance to pick up quality companies at a discount. But wait a second. If a company is “high quality,” why wou...
Bosses Swear by the 90-Day Rule to Keep Workers Long Term
In the quest to retain workers, companies are sharpening their focus on a very specific common goal: 90 days. Hold on to an employee for three months, executives and human-resources specialists say, a...
Buy Starbucks Stock. Shares Could Be Ready to Run.
China’s economic slowdown is among the factors pressuring Starbucks shares. Above, dispensing coffee to customers on the go in Hangzhou. Long Wei/VCG/Getty Images Text size A sequel is seldom as good ...
McDonald’s in Russia Reopens Under New Ownership
MOSCOW—More than a dozen former McDonald’s restaurants reopened here under a new brand and new ownership, accompanied by a marketing blitz aimed at convincing Russians that the new chain’s burgers are...
Howard Schultz Says Starbucks Is Seeking Fresh Blood in CEO Search
SEATTLE—Starbucks is considering only external candidates for its next chief executive officer, as interim CEO Howard Schultz said the company needs to add new talent and skills to its senior leadersh...
Carl Icahn Dropping Proxy Fight Over Pig Treatment at Kroger
Carl Icahn is dropping a proxy fight focused on the treatment of pregnant pigs at grocery-chain Kroger Co. after concluding he is likely to lose as he did a similar fight at McDonald’s Corp. last mont...
Doximity stock plummets after forecast, heads lower than IPO price for first time
Doximity Inc. shares plunged toward all-time lows in after-hours trading Tuesday, following an earnings report that projected an unexpected revenue decline in the current quarter. Doximity DOCS, +2.36...
Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz Bought $10 Million of Stock
Text size Howard Schultz has halted Starbucks’ buybacks of its stock. Getty Images Howard Schultz, now on his third stint as Starbucks ‘ top executive, just bought millions of dollars of the cof...
Dutch Bros. stock spills 37% lower after forecast cut due to inflation
After its third quarterly earnings report since going public, coffee chain Dutch Bros. Inc.’s shares were slaughtered in late trading Wednesday after executives revised their annual outlook to predict...
These 15 Dividend Aristocrat stocks have been the best income builders
The S&P Dividend Aristocrats deserve more coverage. Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they...