Only 13 companies have issued upbeat profit forecasts for Q1, but earnings are due from this pessimism-resistant industry

A tough fourth quarter for corporate earnings is largely in the past, and the first quarter isn’t exactly looking great either, but upcoming results this week from the one industry spared by the pande...

Why MGM Resorts International Stock Is Worth a Wager

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Why Try These Five Small Southwestern French Restaurants

The Grand Theater in central Bordeaux city, France Tom Mullen All five restaurants below I discovered unexpectedly. I found Influences because all other nearby restaurants were (fortunately!) booked; ...

Prudential, Corning, and 8 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends

Prudential Financial, Phillips 66 Tractor Supply and Interpublic were among the various large companies that announced dividend increases this week. It continues to be a busy period for such moves as ...

Vita Coco coconut water expands into cocktails, hangover marketing

Vita Coco water. Tim P. Whitby | Getty Images For nearly two decades, Vita Coco has sold its coconut water to health-conscious consumers as a fresh way to hydrate. This year, it’s changing the p...

Chick-fil-A will test cauliflower sandwich

Chick-fil-A is making its cauliflower sandwich the same way as its original chicken sandwich. Source: Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-A will test its first plant-based entree: a cauliflower sandwich. The new sa...

McDonald’s, Taco Bell owner Yum rule amid high inflation

A girl waiting in line to pick up an order at a McDonald’s restaurant. Oleksii Chumachenko | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Fast-food chains are looking like the big winners in the fou...

PepsiCo (PEP) Q4 2022 earnings

Pepsi sodas are displayed on shelves at a Walmart Supercenter on December 06, 2022 in Austin, Texas. PepsiCo, the maker of Pepsi soda, plans to cut hundreds of corporate jobs at its North American div...

Yum Brands (YUM) earnings Q4 2022

Vehicles wait in line at the drive through lane of a Yum! Brands Inc. Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) and Taco Bell restaurant in Lockport, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Yum Brands on...

Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) earnings Q4 2022

A Chipotle restaurant and signage is seen on February 09, 2022 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Chipotle Mexican Grill on Tuesday reported weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings and reven...

Fake seafood industry getting big investment dollars

While the plant-based burger wars have been waging for several years now, plant-based fish is just in its infancy. But that is about to change, as new contestants enter the mix with various types of f...

The stock market is a ‘drunken psycho.’ Why this hedge-fund manager is shorting some of the market’s biggest stocks.

Stocks are struggling for traction ahead of a few words from Fed Chair Jerome Powell, who will make his appearance this afternoon, just days after moonshot jobs data. Our call of the day from the pres...

New York Restaurants February 2023: Where To Go

The Nines Liz Clayman Edible enlightenment from our eatery experts and colleagues Monie Begley, Richard Nalley and Randall Lane, as well as brothers Bob, Kip and Tim. Music may be the food of love, as...

Mediterranean chain Cava confidentially files for IPO

A logo outside of a Cava restaurant location in Chantilly, Virginia. Kristoffer Tripplaar | Sipa USA | AP Mediterranean chain Cava announced Monday that it has confidentially filed for an initial publ...

Disney, CVS, Uber, Chipotle, PayPal, and More Stocks to Watch This Week

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Large U.S. Pension Sells Alibaba, TSMC, MGM Stock. It Bought Harley-Davidson.

One of the largest U.S. public pension plans made big changes in its investments, including Asian tech giants. The New York State Common Retirement Fund cut its investments in Alibaba Group Holding (t...

Dear Tax Guy: I just started renting my house out on Airbnb. What income-tax deductions can I claim on this property?

I just started renting my house out on Airbnb. I started a limited liability company to keep the expenses separate from personal ones. I am trying to figure out what would be considered tax deductions...

Starbucks (SBUX) Q1 2023 earnings

A Starbucks store is seen inside the Tom Bradley terminal at LAX airport in Los Angeles, California. Lucy Nicholson | Reuters Starbucks on Thursday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that fell sh...

There’s still too much risk in stock and bond markets. Earn this easy 4.5% return while you wait for stability, says trader who hit 2 big calls in 2022.

Ahead of major tech earnings later, Meta results are lighting up the Nasdaq Composite COMP, +2.97% for Thursday. The S&P 500 SPX, +1.40% is also up as investors take a glass-half full view of the ...

Subway sandwich sales climb amid turnaround, potential sale talks

An employee halves a Subway sandwich at a Subway restaurant on January 12, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Subway said its same-store sales climbed 9.2% in 2022, signaling the sandw...

Michael Burry says sell and Jim Cramer says buy. As the Fed meets, here’s how they both could be wrong on stocks.

Michael Burry, the hedge-fund manager at Scion Asset Management who correctly forecast the 2008 financial crisis, on Tuesday night sent out a one-word tweet: “Sell.” Burry didn’t elaborate, but it’s n...

McDonald’s (MCD) Q4 2022 earnings

A sign is posted in front of a McDonald’s restaurant on April 28, 2022 in San Leandro, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images McDonald’s is expected to report its fourth-quarter earnin...

Genius Brands stock soars after plans to spinoff $37 million Entrepreneur Resorts subsidiary

Shares of Genius Group Ltd. soared 43.0% toward a five-month high in premarket trading Monday, after the Singapore-based education company said it will spin off its Entrepreneur Resorts Ltd. subsidiar...

Tesla, GM, Lucid, Alibaba, and More Stock Market Movers

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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...

Elon Musk Renews His Dogecoin Offer to McDonald’s

A year ago, Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, launched a big challenge to McDonald’s.  At the time, the influence of the whimsical and charismatic entrepreneur was on the rise. He had nea...

Deere, Dollar Tree, and 21 More Investment Ideas From Barron’s Roundtable Pros

The “January effect,” according to market lore, is the tendency of stocks to rise in the year’s first month. So far, so good: The S&P 500 is up 6% year to date and the Nasdaq Composite has gained ...

Chipotle hiring 15,000 restaurant workers ahead of busy spring months

A “Now Hiring” sign is displayed in front of a Chipotle restaurant on October 07, 2022 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Chipotle Mexican Grill is seeking to hire 15,000 re...

Inflation is cooling, but high prices will stick around

A shopper checks out the egg section at the Publix at Winter Park Village, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. Joe Burbank | Orlando Sentinel | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Inflation may be cooling. But, f...

The 1980s was the blueprint for the upcoming disinflation cycle and these are the stocks for it, strategists say

Stocks logged a third-straight losing session on Thursday as investors continue to deal with a mixed bag of economic data. That followed Wednesday’s session and extremely weak industrial production th...

McDonald’s Shares Whopper of a Plan for the Big Mac

McDonald’s (MCD) – Get Free Report has been a dominant player in the fast-food space, but part of the reason the chain has stayed on top is that it has never been complacent. That’s ...

Credit Suisse, Just Eat, Alibaba, and More Market Movers

Text size Wall Street is quiet Monday with traders off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Yuki Iwamura/AFP via Getty Images Global stocks and U.S. stock-index futures drifted on Monday.  Investors remain...