Your Pulse On America: Live And Unfiltered
A sign is posted in front of a Taco Bell restaurant in Richmond, California, on May 1, 2024. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Yum Brands on Thursday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beat Wall Street estimates, fueled by strong sales for KFC’s international restaurants and Taco Bell. Shares of the company rose more than 7% in…
A “Now Hiring” sign at a Chipotle restaurant in San Francisco, California, US, on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on February 4. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Private sector companies added more jobs than expected in January, furthering the case for a stable…
Many analysts trimmed their outlooks on chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices after the company disappointed on data center sales. AMD reported $3.86 billion in data center chip sales in the fourth quarter. While this was higher 69% on a yearly basis, it fell short of the $4.14 billion forecast from analysts polled by FactSet. Although the…
A Chipotle restaurant stands in Manhattan, New York City, on Feb. 6, 2024. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Chipotle Mexican Grill on Tuesday said traffic to its restaurants keeps rising, helping the company top analysts’ estimates for its quarterly earnings. However, the burrito chain disappointed investors with its same-store sales forecast for 2025. Shares of…
Defense contractors Booz Allen Hamilton and L3Harris Technologies are poised to benefit from the efforts of Elon Musk’s advisory panel called the Department of Government Efficiency to trim down federal spending, according to Bank of America. Bank of America reiterated its buy rating on both stocks. Its price target of $210 on Booz Allen implies…
Bottles of Pepsi soda are seen on display at a Target store on February 09, 2024 in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn borough New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images PepsiCo reported mixed quarterly results on Tuesday as demand for its snacks and drinks fell in North America for the fifth straight quarter….
A former senior advisor for the Federal Reserve was arrested Friday on charges that he conspired to steal Fed trade secrets for the benefit of China. The data that the advisor John Harold Rogers allegedly shared with his co-conspirators could allow China to manipulate the U.S. market “in a manner similar to insider trading,” according…
President Donald Trump ‘s proposed tariffs on some of the U.S.’s major trading partners — Mexico, Canada and China — present a challenging headwind for U.S. companies that depend on the affected countries for imports and manufacturing. While forecasts on the full economic impact of tariffs vary across Wall Street, the levies are widely expected…
Kash Patel, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be director of the FBI, looks on as he testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 30, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Trump Media this week gifted thousands of shares of company stock to President Donald Trump‘s nominee for…
U.S. economic growth slowed a bit more than expected in the final three months of 2024, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Gross domestic product, a measure of all the goods and services produced across the sprawling U.S. economy during the period, showed that the economy accelerated at a 2.3% annualized pace in the fourth quarter….