Dow Turns Positive After Initial Sell Off; HP Surges 14%
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Hoping to increase sales and traffic in their restaurants, fast-food and fast-casual operators are cranking up the menu innovation to produce items that stray from the gastronomic norm.
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McCormick is the play as Americans struggle to survive this tough economy.
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Don Wordell, manager of the 5-star RidgeWorth Mid-Cap Value Equity fund, says the consumer is just fine -- and he has a stock pick to back that up.
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CEOs from various industries gathered to talk about the recent events in the economy and its affects on their companies. Watch the following videos for what each had to say.
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Colonel Harland Sanders' handwritten recipe of 11 herbs and spices was to be removed Tuesday from safekeeping at KFC's corporate offices for the first time in decades.
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The Fast Money traders are keeping an ear open for some juicy news out of China. Literally!
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What's the outlook for commodities and stocks in China now that the torch is out?
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The Dow fell by triple digits on Tuesday as worries about further losses stemming from the mortgage crisis moved back into the spotlight.
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Should you go for gold and continue betting on Beijing after the Olympics?
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U.S. rapper and hip-hop mogul 50 Cent sued Taco Bell on Wednesday, saying the restaurant chain made him the star of its hip-hop themed ad campaign without his permission and without paying him a fee.
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McDonald's, the world's largest restaurant chain, posted a higher-than-expected second-quarter profit on Wednesday, boosted by strong overseas sales.
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Following are the day’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Harley-Davidson and Capital One popped while eBay and Yum! dropped.
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Four billion dollars has been set aside to lure alternative-energy firms to the state.
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Are we at a bottom? Still not clear, but when you have rallies like yesterday, when you have Lowry, the oldest technical analysis service in the U.S., say to their clients, "The last two days appeared to represent a possible selling climax," you do get a lot of people nibbling, and today we are helped by Jamie Dimon and friends.
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Yum Brands, parent company of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC, on Wednesday posted a 5 percent rise in quarterly profit, but shares fell more than 5 percent as rising commodity prices ate into restaurant margins in the United States and China.
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Oil's move could be a key trend in Wednesday's markets, as traders watch more Fed testimony, a bunch of earnings reports and another helping of inflation data.
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Check out our “Fast & Furious” trades. Yes, now we bring you even more Fast ways to trade tomorrow's market moving events.
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Also, how to play next week's busy schedule of earnings.
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Wall Street is bracing for a big round of second-quarter earnings reports that few expect to deliver good news for the state of corporate America.
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Oh those marketing geniuses at Yum! Brands and Cadbury Schweppes. Slogans like "Finger Lickin' Good," and people dancing around singing "I'm a Pepper" just don't cut it anymore in the age of dogs riding skateboards on YouTube and products which promote "going commando." Sigh. I miss wanting to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony.
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Also, the closest thing to a deepwater wildcatter, more praise for wind power and more.