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Yum Brands will spin off its Yum! China operations into a separately traded public company that will have exclusive rights to Yum's three top franchises.
IBM does have several of the hallmarks of a company that has too many divisions and is complicated beyond the necessity for holding a portfolio of lightly related divisions.
GE stock is sitting just under a multiyear high and could stand to run even further, if it keeps up this solid momentum gained from recent catalysts.
Copper miner and oil producer Freeport-McMoRan announced Wednesday morning that the company had appointed two new board members recommended by activist investor Carl Icahn.
Standard & Poor's has maintained GE's corporate credit rating, but it has now revised its outlook to Negative.
Wendy's chief executive officer is retiring, and many investors will have to determine what this really means for the company's positioning in the future.
Trian Fund Management announced that it had acquired a stake of more than 98 million shares in General Electric valued at approximately $2.5 billion.
Chevron has amended its bylaws to allow proxy access under certain circumstances to certain shareholders.
Bank of America has just joined the ranks of big banks and companies that survived a vocal shareholder proposal to split the role of chairman and chief executive officer.
Sysco Corp.Sysco Corp. (NYSE: SYY), at its 2015 Investor Day, presented a three-year strategic business plan to investors, analysts and others in attendance. The plan was designed to improve the...
Bank of America has been under fire for the consolidated chairman and CEO role held by Brian Moynihan.
Icahn is not necessarily looking for a dividend payout, but it can be surmised that he almost certainly wants Freeport-McMoRan to get rid of the oil and gas albatross it acquired.
Activist investor Carl Icahn has revealed that he had acquired a more than 8% stake in copper and gold miner Freeport-McMoran.
This is one of those situations where everyone will have to wait and see what the real news and the real ambition is before casting a final judgment. After all, maybe activist math is different from...
After an American Express 6% share price gain on Friday, on a down day in the markets, Nomura's Bill Carcache thinks the excitement is premature.