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ThinkstockWhen it comes to fast food, Americans eat a lot of it, and they are getting more demanding about the quality of the food they are eating. And the biggest names are faring the poorest:...
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ServiceMaster Global Holdings sold 35.9 million shares of common stock Thursday morning at an initial public offering price of $17, below the proposed range of $18 to $21.
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Records storage and information management firm Iron Mountain has received authorization from the IRS to convert itself to a real estate investment trust for the tax year beginning January 1, 2014.
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Carnival reported better-than-expected second-quarter fiscal 2014 results before markets opened Tuesday morning, but disappointing guidance sank shares.
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courtesy of StarbucksIn March Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) CEO Howard Schultz said that the company had no plans to raise its prices. This morning the company announced that a grande or venti...
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Wikimedia CommonsFor the past 20 years, the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) has been rating what it calls limited-service restaurants and the rest of us call fast-food restaurants. In...
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Darden Restaurants reported disappointing fourth-quarter and full-year 2014 results before markets opened Friday morning. Red Lobster's results are included in as discontinued operations.
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London-based financial information and research firm Markit got off to a roaring start with its Thursday morning initial public offering.
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FedEx reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2014 results before markets opened Wednesday morning. The package FedEx delivered today is shiny, but what's inside could be...
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Online travel company Priceline Group announced Friday morning that it has entered a definitive agreement with OpenTable to acquire all the outstanding shares of OpenTable for $103 per share in an...
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ThinkstockMany of the consumer discretionary stocks that make up that sector have suffered this year. As of the end of last week, it is the only sector that was down so far in 2014, and it may...
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Even though the weather has finally warmed, don't expect fast food restaurants like McDonald's or casual dining chains such as Darden Restaurants Red Lobster and Olive Garden to report demonstrably...
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ThinkstockUnited Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) on Friday announced that current COO David Abney will replace retiring CEO Scott Davis effective September 1, when Davis retires as CEO and becomes...
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Hertz Global Holdings said Friday morning that it will delay filing its quarterly report on Form 10-Q because the company needs to restate its financial results for 2011 and make corrections to its...
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ThinkstockChina has ramped up a war machine second only to that of the United States. The military spending level of the People’s Republic sits well above its official estimates, according to a...
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