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10 Things You’ll Be Paying More for This Year

Danny King — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Expect to pay more this year for many consumer goods -- from diapers to toothpaste to Big Macs. Just as the typical American family will finally have a few more dollars to spend, inflation will take a chunk of that extra cash. ...

Restaurants Gear Up for Increased Seafood Demand During Lent

Jonathan Berr — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:00:00 +0000

The Christian season of repentance, Lent, is underway. And with the season comes an increased demand for seafood -- as traditional followers of Lent avoid meat on Fridays. That demand has caused some restaurants to alter their ...

Is Cap’n Crunch Easing Quietly Into Retirement?

Jonathan Berr — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:00:00 +0000

Quaker Oats, which manufactures the cereal, and parent company PepsiCo, appear to have distanced themselves from the highly sweetened brand. Indeed, Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries is tied for first on a Yale list of the least nu...

Gas Prices Surge Again, Renewing Talk of a Double-Dip Recession

Douglas McIntyre — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:45:00 +0000

A gallon of regular gas climbed to $3.503 on Sunday -- nearly 38 cents higher than a month ago and up 15 cents in a week, renewing talk of a double-dip recession. Continue reading Gas Prices Surge Again, Renewi...

Ronald McDonald Put to Pasture as Fast-Food Chain Gentrifies

David Schepp — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:05:00 +0000

He's becoming notably absent these days. Fighting back against more upscale chains, McDonald's is more focused now on selling profitable coffee drinks and salads -- and downplaying its namesake clown, who's more associated with...

World’s Most Admired Companies: Apple Is Still No. 1

Special to DailyFinance — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:15:00 +0000

Now that the skies are clearing after the worst economic storm in modern history -- far more violent than the experts had predicted -- we face a surprising new roster of winners and losers, as Fortune's 2011 ranking of the Worl...

S&P 500 Earnings Beat the Street by 4.5% So Far

Melly Alazraki — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:53:00 +0000

The S&P 500 is a bellwether for the American economy, and with quarterly reports for more than half of the index's companies in this earnings season, S&P 500 firms are averaging a 4.5% positive earnings per share surprise, acco...

Why Gold Has Been Knocked Off Its Highs

Dan Burrows — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:10:00 +0000

Friday's action notwithstanding, in which gold prices rose as the stock market sold off, safe-haven assets are suffering at the expensive of equities and other riskier assets. That's what happens when the global economy appears...

The Taco Bell Beef Suit: Not All Processed Foods Are Evil

Bruce Kennedy — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:20:00 +0000

A new lawsuit against Taco Bell claims processed beef used by the fast food giant contains mostly fillers. Taco Bell vigorously denies the claim, but the litigation is drawing new attention to the years-long controversy over pr...

Face-Off on Stocks: McDonald’s, Yum, Wendy’s/Arby’s [Video]

Dan Burrows — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Fast-food restaurants appear to have put the worst of the downturn behind them, but new industrywide challenges have emerged for 2011. That got us wondering if there's fast money to be made in fast-food stocks -- or if shares are too hard to swallow at current levels. [Video]

Continue reading Face-Off on Stocks: McDonald's, Yum, Wendy's/Arby's [Video]

Face-Off on Stocks: McDonald's, Yum, Wendy's/Arby's [Video] originally appeared on DailyFinance on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:00:00.

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