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...Financial markets closed UK: Labour Force Survey key indicators Results: Caterpillar Q4, Estée Lauder Q2, Itochu Q3, Kikkoman Q3, Loews Corp Q4, McDonald’s Q4, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Q3, NXP Semiconductors...
...But several advisers cautioned that it would be too soon to say a victory would unleash a wave of similar campaigns, citing Engine No. 1’s success at Exxon....
...Steven McDonald, an analyst at S&P Global, said the progress Citrix had made “tempers the risk of integration mis-steps and cost-saving delays and bolsters our confidence that its improving profitability...
...And much as M&S do very fine prepared meals, it’s not the 1990s. Time for a radical plan....
...The letter contained a pointed warning for the giant asset management groups BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street, whose funds between them control 21 per cent of McDonald’s stock, according to S&P Capital...
...In 2012, McDonald’s promised it would stop buying from suppliers that confine swine in cramped quarters....
...The reversal also points to vulnerabilities in a financial model that has until now been F45’s strength....
...In his speech, Dowden will recognise that “right now, Channel 4 is in a stable position”, but add: “I think too many people are fixated on Channel 4’s current situation....
...In the autumn of 2021, the nominal trading volume of Tesla options exploded to $241bn a day, as much as all other S&P 500 options combined. Amateur investors are keen punters here....
...Scott Stringer, New York City comptroller, last year started a campaign that has led more than half of S&P 100 companies to disclose this information....
...Quarterly net income was the weakest since 2007, when a one-time charge triggered a quarterly loss, according to S&P Capital IQ data, and a resurgence in coronavirus cases in the US and other countries is...
...While the company’s shares more than doubled in value from March 2015 to peak at more than $220 this summer, the stock has since lost its sizzle, trailing far behind the S&P 500’s 23 per cent gain this year...
...While the stock is still underperforming the benchmark S&P 500, the gap between the two has narrowed dramatically since the start of the third quarter....
...According to The Conference Board, five of the 12 S&P 500 chief executives who were fired last year were #MeToo-related....
...The global like-for-like sales rise was stronger than the 4.95 per cent analysts had pencilled in, according to S&P Capital IQ data. Shares rose 1.7 per cent in New York on Friday morning....
...Masayoshi Son extolled the consistency of McDonald’s, even as he apologised for sketchy due diligence on WeWork. It was a risky reference. McDonald’s classic burger contains only beef....
...Musk has had a love/hate relationship with public markets over the past few years but, with a valuation that’s now on par with McDonald’s, we’ll bet he’s lovin’ it....
...One thinks of Russia’s first McDonald’s and Selfridges, the UK’s first US-style big store. Should Costco Shanghai join the roll of honour?...
...Undurraga, one of Chile’s oldest wine producers, is currently on a roll — as evidenced by this perfumed but substantial wine from the classic red-wine region just outside Santiago. 14% Goisot, Corps de...
...Simon McDonald, top official at the Foreign Office, told MPs: “People are shaken by what has happened. The basis on which we have worked all our careers suddenly feels as if it is challenged.”...
...US earnings Earnings season get under way in earnest next week with 160 companies on the S&P 500 scheduled to report results....
...The stock rose 1.9 per cent in morning trade versus a 0.7 per cent rise for the broader S&P 500....
...P 500's current batch of high flyers....
...Lockheed Martin was among the biggest decliners on the S&P 500 on Tuesday as disappointing third-quarter results managed to overshadow a brighter full-year outlook....
...Berlin intervened to stop State Grid Corp of China from acquiring a stake in high-voltage power network operator 50Hertz....
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