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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Standard & Poor's has maintained GE's corporate credit rating, but it has now revised its outlook to Negative.
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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.
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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.
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Chevron has amended its bylaws to allow proxy access under certain circumstances to certain shareholders.
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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.
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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...
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Bank of America has been under fire for the consolidated chairman and CEO role held by Brian Moynihan.
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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.
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Activist investor Carl Icahn has revealed that he had acquired a more than 8% stake in copper and gold miner Freeport-McMoran.
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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...
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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.
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