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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.

Business News

Core CPI Climbed 2.5% in July, Excluding Food and Fuel

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.

Core CPI Climbed 2.5% in July, Excluding Food and Fuel
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Dividend Yield vs. Dividend Growth

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.

Retiree reviewing dividend statements with a portfolio binder
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What Poison Pill Defenses Do

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.

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How Mergers Get Their Antitrust Review

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.

Seal and documents on a regulator's desk awaiting review
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How Share Buybacks Work

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.

Stacked area chart of buybacks versus dividends over two decades