Company news across retail, food, leisure and consumer goods: results and guidance, mergers, disposals, closure programs and job cuts. Entries include the figures a company disclosed and the ones analysts asked about. Built for investors, suppliers and competitors needing the development and its arithmetic together.
Company news across retail, food, leisure and consumer goods: results and guidance, mergers, disposals, closure programs and job cuts. Entries include the figures a company disclosed and the ones analysts asked about. Built for investors, suppliers and competitors needing the development and its arithmetic together.
Core inflation strips out food and energy to track the underlying trend. Here is what it measures, how it differs from headline CPI, and why the Federal Reserve tracks a different index entirely.
The yield tells you what the stock pays now; the growth rate tells you what it will pay later — and the second number decides whether a high yield is income or a trap.
A poison pill lets all shareholders but the raider buy stock at a discount — diluting an acquirer past the point of economics without a single court filing.
Most deals clear in 30 days; the ones that don't enter a second request, a year of document production, and the agencies' newly aggressive theories of harm.
Repurchases return cash to shareholders by shrinking the share count — mechanically EPS accretive, economically neutral unless the price is wrong, and now a 1 percent tax pays for it.