The Japanese are stockpiling bottled water and other drinks after being warned that unsafe levels of radioactive iodine had been found in Tokyo’s tap water. That moved investors to jump on the stocks of beverage makers, but onl…
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…
Not surprisingly, when NPR’s This American Life program released a recipe for the drink earlier this week, it quickly captured the attention of the chattering class. A closer look, however, shows that real thing’s real secret i…
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…
It should be pretty quiet on the economic calendar this week, with only a few national reports due out. But iconic companies Walt Disney, Coca-Cola and Hasbro, among others, are scheduled to report quarterly results.
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