Investors are always looking for new strategies to beat the market over time and build wealth to ensure their financial futures.
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June 7 - News
For years, McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD) has taken heat for selling allegedly nutritionally deficient food.
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June 6 - News
Sweet tea, biscuits, and fried everything are all staples of good old southern cooking.
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June 6 - News
Every investor has a story about the big winner they missed. Consider Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX), which grew from a single Seattle cafe into a worldwide retail titan.
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June 6 - News
As the stock market has kept going up, many investors have thought about the possibility of another crash like 2008.
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June 6 - News
In many ways Europe's problems are considered old news. After the scare following the 2008 financial crisis, investors have turned their eyes to other corners of the world.
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June 6 - News
This is a smart move on many different levels. For starters, this isn't like the annual Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's.
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June 5 - News
This past year has been a sweet one for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (NYSE:KKD).
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June 5 - News
Investors have been able to do well in an environment of declining bond coupon values.
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June 5 - News
A recent survey found that Americans visit fast-food restaurants a lot. In fact, they comprise many of the most frequently visited businesses in the nation.
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June 5 - News
One of the biggest challenges for retail chains is to increase same-store sales and do so with minimal capital expenditures.
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June 4 - News
The stock market is looking muted this morning following Census Bureau release showing a narrower-than-expected trade deficit in April.
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June 4 - News
Although the restaurant industry has seen its share of competitive pressure of late, there are important long-term trends in place that support continued industry growth, including...
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June 4 - News
Ka-ching! Dividend investors live for that sound. Each quarter thousands of companies hand over their excess cash to investors. But not all dividend stocks are equal.
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June 3 - News
Shareholder meetings are getting exciting again.
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June 3 - News
Two of the Dow Jones Industrial Average's components had eventful days on June 1 throughout their histories.
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June 3 - News
Fast food giant McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD) is one of the world's most recognizable companies.
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May 31 - News
In his State of the Union address earlier this year, President Obama called for Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour by 2015, with automatic adjustments upward...
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May 31 - News
McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD) same store sales have slowed in The United States. Some of that stems from increased competition and some from a still languishing economy.
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May 30 - News
According to a recent report from Nation's Restaurant News, Yum! Brands, Inc.
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May 30 - News
We are all searching for that one stock that exponentially grows our investment. If you are looking for such a play in the restaurant sector, I can recommend one to you.
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May 30 - News
Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM), the most popular Western food chain in China, recently reported a 29% drop in same-store sales in its biggest overseas market.
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May 30 - News
In the context of the 2,700-point advance we've seen in the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (INDEXDJX:.DJI) since this time last year, this morning's 150-point drop is only...
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May 29 - News
McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD) has seen flat sales in the last couple of months due to declining demand in the global fast food industry.
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May 29 - News
Perhaps Tim Cook's best-known claim to fame is that he constructed what's widely regarded as the best supply chain in the world for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL).
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May 29 - News
Most troubling to me, however, is the fact the most common excuses offered for this hatred involve terrifying past experiences with stocks, even if they were only heard secondhand...
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May 28 - News
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is not an easy stock to love right now.
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May 28 - News
Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM)' Chinese business has been hit hard by concerns over the quality and safety of chicken.
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May 28 - News
The fact that McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) is a relatively consistent business has led the company to make consistent dividend payments and payment increases annually...
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May 28 - News
It is hard to buy food or pay rent when you are unemployed. Double-income families can usually handle the effects of unemployment by relying on one income instead of two.
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May 28 - News
Burger King Worldwide Inc (NYSE:BKW)’s reign in the kingdom of fast food burgers has been a tumultuous one.
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May 28 - News
McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD) former CEO Jim Skinner once said: “It is not rocket science to figure out how to make a profit in the industry.” But maybe at that time...
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May 28 - News
My colleague Dan Caplinger noted this morning that the markets are trading lower on little negative news, but the fresh memory of Ben Bernanke's testimony and the prospect of ...
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May 24 - News
Investors' total level of margin debt is less than half a percentage point below the record set in July 2007.
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May 24 - News
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) is the best way for U.S. investors to play China's growth story.
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May 23 - News
The fast-food industry is evolving rapidly as more health-conscious customers emerge alongside those in search of value-priced offerings.
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May 22 - News
On Oct. 2, 2012, Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn described his latest short idea at an annual value investment conference.
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May 22 - News
Americans love their coffee, and there's no company that's made that fact more apparent than Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX).
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May 21 - News
The past few weeks have been a bit of a roller-coaster ride for Manitowoc Company, Inc. (NYSE:MTW) investors.
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May 21 - News
If you're a beginning investor and the first things you're thinking of adding to your new portfolio are some top dividend stocks, bravo! You're on the right track, as dividends...
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May 21 - News
During the tough economic times of the last few years, restaurants got crafty in attracting cash-strapped customers.
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May 20 - News
With new numbers hot off the press showing mixed results of the three burger giants, McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD), The Wendy's Co (NASDAQ:WEN) and Burger King Worldwide Inc...
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May 20 - News
Socially responsible investing has gained a lot of attention over the last couple of years, and for good reason.
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May 17 - News
If you try to narrow down one single deciding factor that favors either fast food or restaurant stocks, the metrics are all over the place.
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May 16 - News
As the chatter surrounding a market pullback continues to build, these companies remain good investments. We look at fours stocks in four different sectors that meet the below...
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May 16 - News
Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM)'s Chinese empire is falling apart. It runs around 4,400 KFCs in the country and some 1,000 Pizza Huts.
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May 16 - News
I went into McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) yesterday and the restaurant, as usual, was very busy.
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May 15 - News
The Wendy's Co (NASDAQ:WEN) is going through a makeover.
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May 15 - News
