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McDonald's, Chili's Win on Value, Fast-Casual Chains Lose Younger Diners

McDonald's, Chili's Win on Value, Fast-Casual Chains Lose Younger Diners

As U.S. consumers tighten their wallets, budget-friendly restaurant chains such as McDonald's, Chili's and Domino's are emerging as winners, drawing more diners who are trading down to cheaper meals. The shift is leaving pricier fast-casual chains, including C...


November 7, 2025
S.Africa's TFG to Cut Costs as Profit Slumps on Weak Demand
S.Africa's TFG to Cut Costs as Profit Slumps on Weak Demand

South Africa's TFG said on Friday it will tighten costs and close underperforming stores after erratic monthly sales and soft winter...

Novo Nordisk Shares Fall after Trump Deal to Slash Obesity Drug Prices
Novo Nordisk Shares Fall after Trump Deal to Slash Obesity Drug Prices

Shares in Novo Nordisk fell as much as 3% on Friday after the Danish drugmaker and U.S. rival Eli Lilly agreed with the U.S....

Sharp Rise in Hungary's Deficit, Inflation could Harm Credit Rating, S&P Global
Sharp Rise in Hungary's Deficit, Inflation could Harm Credit Rating, S&P Global

A sharp rise in Hungary's budget deficit, if coupled with higher inflation and currency market pressure, could threaten Hungary's credit...

Indian beauty retailer Nykaa Posts more than 3-Fold Profit Jump on Robust Makeup Demand
Indian beauty retailer Nykaa Posts more than 3-Fold Profit Jump on Robust Makeup Demand

Indian beauty retailer Nykaa's quarterly profit more than trebled on Friday, boosted by steady demand for makeup and skincare products as well...

Bain Capital Private Credit Executive Brushes Off Systemic Concerns, Eyes Asia Growth
Bain Capital Private Credit Executive Brushes Off Systemic Concerns, Eyes Asia Growth

The global private credit market currently has no systemic risks, while Asia offers the biggest growth opportunities, a senior Bain Capital private...

November 6, 2025
Telecom Italia CEO says would Welcome Consolidation Moves by Rivals
Telecom Italia CEO says would Welcome Consolidation Moves by Rivals

Telecom Italia (TIM) would welcome any consolidation in the country's telecoms market, even if competitors should make the first move, the...

Lilly's Experimental Drug Shows Promise with 20.1% Weight Loss in mid-Stage Trial
Lilly's Experimental Drug Shows Promise with 20.1% Weight Loss in mid-Stage Trial

Eli Lilly said on Thursday its experimental obesity drug helped patients lose as much as 20.1% of their weight in a mid-stage trial. The...

Swiss Stock Exchange Operator SIX Hit by Losses Related to Worldline Stake
Swiss Stock Exchange Operator SIX Hit by Losses Related to Worldline Stake

Swiss stock exchange operator SIX said on Thursday it expects a 2025 net loss of about 300 million Swiss francs ($378.26 million), citing an...

Nissan Returns to Operating Profit in Second Quarter
Nissan Returns to Operating Profit in Second Quarter

Nissan Motor swung back to an operating profit in the second quarter on Thursday, reporting its best quarterly result in more than a year due to...

Uniper Sells Hydropower for 2026, 2027, Part of Hedging Strategy
Uniper Sells Hydropower for 2026, 2027, Part of Hedging Strategy

German utility Uniper has sold sizeable quantities of its future hydropower and nuclear output as part of its hedging strategy, the company...

Volvo Cars Targets Operating Profit Margin above 8% in Strategy Revamp
Volvo Cars Targets Operating Profit Margin above 8% in Strategy Revamp

Volvo Cars said on Thursday that it was targeting a long-term operating profit margin of over 8% in a strategy overhaul, deepening its...

UPS Kentucky Air Hub to Reopen after Plane Crash, Easing Delivery Delays
UPS Kentucky Air Hub to Reopen after Plane Crash, Easing Delivery Delays

UPS said on Wednesday it would reopen its sprawling air cargo hub in Louisville, Kentucky, after temporarily shuttering it a day earlier due...

November 5, 2025
Super Micro Shares Slip as Delivery Delays Stall AI Momentum
Super Micro Shares Slip as Delivery Delays Stall AI Momentum

Super Micro Computer's shares slipped more than 9% in premarket trading on Wednesday after the artificial intelligence (AI)-focused server...

Novo Nordisk Strikes US Medicare Price Deal
Novo Nordisk Strikes US Medicare Price Deal

Novo Nordisk said on Wednesday it had agreed a price under the U.S. Medicare scheme for semaglutide, the active ingredient in its key drugs...

European Corporates Defy Fears of Earnings Gloom as Outlook Improves
European Corporates Defy Fears of Earnings Gloom as Outlook Improves

The outlook for European corporate health has substantially improved, the latest earnings forecasts showed on Tuesday, as investors' worst...

Magnum Ice Cream says Ben & Jerry's Board Chair no Longer Fit to Serve
Magnum Ice Cream says Ben & Jerry's Board Chair no Longer Fit to Serve

The Magnum Ice Cream Company has concluded that the chair of its Ben & Jerry's brand no longer "meets the criteria" to serve as a...

Huawei's Chinese EV Partner Seres' Shares Slide in Hong Kong Debut amid Tech Slump
Huawei's Chinese EV Partner Seres' Shares Slide in Hong Kong Debut amid Tech Slump

Shares of Chinese electric vehicle maker Seres Group , the EV partner of technology firm Huawei (HWT.UL), fell as much as 7.2% in the company's...

Stonepeak to Debut $195 Million Debt Security in Australia
Stonepeak to Debut $195 Million Debt Security in Australia

U.S.-based investor Stonepeak said on Wednesday it plans to launch a redeemable, infrastructure-backed debt security on the Australian Securities...

Germany's Vonovia Returns to Profit on Write-Ups as Real-Estate Market Recovers
Germany's Vonovia Returns to Profit on Write-Ups as Real-Estate Market Recovers

Vonovia, Germany's largest real estate group, on Wednesday reported that it returned to profit in the first nine months of the year, as it...

Japan's Crypto Players Jostle for Market Share on Regulatory Easing Hopes
Japan's Crypto Players Jostle for Market Share on Regulatory Easing Hopes

From the launch of new products and services in Japan to facilitating leveraged trading bets, crypto exchanges and some financial firms are rushing...

November 4, 2025
Sarepta Shares Tumble on Trial Failure, Weak Elevidys Outlook
Sarepta Shares Tumble on Trial Failure, Weak Elevidys Outlook

Sarepta Therapeutics' shares plunged nearly 30% on Tuesday as the failure of two of its approved drugs in a key trial and weak forecast...

BP Profit Beats Expectations, but no News on Castrol Sale
BP Profit Beats Expectations, but no News on Castrol Sale

Oil major BP reported a smaller than expected fall in third-quarter underlying profit on Tuesday as a strong performance at all divisions led...

Saudi Aramco Q3 Profit Slips on Lower Crude Prices
Saudi Aramco Q3 Profit Slips on Lower Crude Prices

Saudi Arabia's Aramco, the world's top oil exporter, reported a 2.3% fall in quarterly profit on Tuesday, citing a drop in crude and...

Airbus Needs 235 Deliveries to Reach Year-End Goal, Sources
Airbus Needs 235 Deliveries to Reach Year-End Goal, Sources

Airbus delivered 585 airplanes in the first 10 months of the year, industry sources said, leaving a record 235 left to deliver to reach a...

Nintendo Hikes Switch 2 Forecast to 19 Million Units
Nintendo Hikes Switch 2 Forecast to 19 Million Units

Nintendo on Tuesday hiked its sales forecast for the Switch 2 gaming device to 19 million units for the financial year ending March 2026 from...

Toyota Set for 2nd Straight Quarterly Profit Drop, US Tariffs Weigh
Toyota Set for 2nd Straight Quarterly Profit Drop, US Tariffs Weigh

Japan's Toyota Motor is expected to post a second consecutive quarterly operating profit decline on Wednesday, as U.S. tariffs and...

India’s Adani Enterprises Posts Q2 Profit Drop on Coal Trading Weakness
India’s Adani Enterprises Posts Q2 Profit Drop on Coal Trading Weakness

Adani Enterprises reported a drop in second-quarter adjusted profit on Tuesday as weakness in its core coal trading business offset gains in...

Germany Property Bank PBB Falls to near Record Lows
Germany Property Bank PBB Falls to near Record Lows

Deutsche Pfandbriefbank (PBB) shares fell further on Tuesday with traders citing no clear driver behind the slump amid markets growing...

Nigeria's NNPC Improving Transparency ahead of IPO, CEO says
Nigeria's NNPC Improving Transparency ahead of IPO, CEO says

Nigeria's state-owned oil firm NNPC has been improving transparency about its performance in preparation for a long-awaited initial public...

Indian Automaker Mahindra Posts Higher Profit on Strong SUV Sales
Indian Automaker Mahindra Posts Higher Profit on Strong SUV Sales

Indian automaker Mahindra & Mahindra posted a nearly 18% rise in second-quarter profit on Tuesday, driven by steady demand for its...

Palantir Shares Drop in Europe Despite Earnings Beat
Palantir Shares Drop in Europe Despite Earnings Beat

Palantir Technologies fell almost 6% in early Frankfurt trading on Tuesday, as another strong quarterly update from the U.S. tech group failed...

Hugo Boss Expects Sales, Profit at Low End of Guidance
Hugo Boss Expects Sales, Profit at Low End of Guidance

German fashion group Hugo Boss on Tuesday said sales and operating profit in the current year would be at the lower end of its guidance and...

November 3, 2025
Tesla Sales Resume Fall in European Markets in October
Tesla Sales Resume Fall in European Markets in October

Tesla's sales plunged in October in a number of European countries including Spain, the Netherlands and Nordic markets in the latest sign...

Chipmaker Onsemi Beats Quarterly Estimates on AI-Driven Demand
Chipmaker Onsemi Beats Quarterly Estimates on AI-Driven Demand

Onsemi beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter revenue and profit on Monday, helped by an artificial intelligence boom that has boosted...

Pagaya, Castlelake Reach Deal for Up to $500M in Auto Loans
Pagaya, Castlelake Reach Deal for Up to $500M in Auto Loans

Lending platform Pagaya Technologies on Monday announced an agreement to sell up to $500 million of its auto loans to asset-based private...

Kimberly-Clark to Buy Tylenol Maker Kenvue for over $40 bln
Kimberly-Clark to Buy Tylenol Maker Kenvue for over $40 bln

Kleenex maker Kimberly-Clark said on Monday it will buy Kenvue for more than $40 billion in a landmark deal for the consumer sector, as...

Honeywell Names Insider Jim Currier CEO of Aerospace Unit
Honeywell Names Insider Jim Currier CEO of Aerospace Unit

Honeywell on Monday named Jim Currier as president and CEO of its aerospace unit, which will become an independent publicly traded company...

US Shale Producers SM Energy, Civitas to Merge in $12.8B Deal
US Shale Producers SM Energy, Civitas to Merge in $12.8B Deal

SM Energy and Civitas Resources said on Monday they will merge in a deal valued at about $12.8 billion, including debt, creating one of...

BP to Sell Stakes in US Onshore Pipeline Assets for $1.5B
BP to Sell Stakes in US Onshore Pipeline Assets for $1.5B

BP has agreed to sell minority stakes in some of its U.S. onshore pipeline assets in the Permian and Eagle Ford basins to investment firm...

Quicker Boeing Deliveries Help Ryanair Boost Profit, Traffic Forecast
Quicker Boeing Deliveries Help Ryanair Boost Profit, Traffic Forecast

Ryanair reported forecast-beating six-month post-tax profit on Monday and nudged up its passenger traffic forecast after earlier than expected...

Heineken Trumpets 2030 Plan but Investors want Results
Heineken Trumpets 2030 Plan but Investors want Results

Heineken has pledged to bolster its revenue and cut costs, but investors in the world's No. 2 beer maker say tougher steps, including...

October 31, 2025
Volkswagen Secures Credit Lines from Brazil's BNDES to Boost Hybrids
Volkswagen Secures Credit Lines from Brazil's BNDES to Boost Hybrids

Volkswagen said on Friday it has secured 2.3 billion reais ($425.62 million) in credit lines from Brazil's state development bank BNDES to...


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