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Sonic to be Acquired By Arby’s parent company in $2.3 billion transaction
Sonic Corp. (NASDAQ: SONC) and Arby’s parent, Inspire Brands, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger…
Read More »Trump Effect: Consumer Confidence Continues Rise in September
Consumer confidence increased in September, following a large improvement in August. The Index now stands at 138.4 (1985=100), up from…
Read More »Grubhub to acquire Tapingo
Grubhub (NYSE: GRUB), the nation’s leading online and mobile food-ordering and delivery marketplace, today announced it has entered into an agreement…
Read More »Nearly half of Americans think the middle class is shrinking and one third believe it will disappear entirely
Americans are twice as likely to say the middle class is shrinking (45%) versus expanding (21%), according to new data…
Read More »Health Insurance Premiums Have Increased 62 Percent Since the First Obamacare Open Enrollment Period
Today eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) released its annual Health Insurance Price Index Report for 2018, tracking costs and trends for major…
Read More »SiriusXM to Acquire Pandora, Creating World’s Largest Audio Entertainment Company
SiriusXM to Acquire Pandora in All-Stock Transaction Valuing Pandora at $3.5 Billion Both SiriusXM and Pandora Brands, Products, and Services…
Read More »Survey: Nearly One-Quarter Of Workers Have Left A Job Due To A Bad Commute
Chicago, Miami, New York, and San Francisco have the most professionals who have quit because of a bad commute 39…
Read More »OPEC Believes US Shale Boom Won’t Last Long
OPEC predicts that competition with the U.S. will drop significantly in less than five years, allowing members of the world’s…
Read More »UN Makes Buying ‘Made in the USA’ As Hard As It Can Get
Did you know that before you even wake up in the morning you are subsiding profits to Chinese companies? It…
Read More »Fox And Comcast Take Their Battle Over Sky To Auction And It’s A Battle Fox Could Be Hoping To Lose
21st Century Fox and Comcast hope to settle their struggle for Sky in an auction starting Friday after nearly two…
Read More »Alaska, Connecticut Hold Highest Average Credit Card Balances; Iowa and Wisconsin Lowest
An Austin, Texas company released a study Wednesday that reveals which U.S. states hold the most credit card balances relative…
Read More »Trump Effect: Middle-Market Businesses Boom as U.S. Economy Soars
Mid-sized businesses, representing roughly 40% of the U.S. economy and one-third of its workforce, registered the third consecutive quarter of record-high…
Read More »Staples To Acquire Essendant For $12.80 Per Share In Cash
Staples, Inc. and Essendant Inc. (NASDAQ: ESND) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which an…
Read More »Hours of Video Viewed on a Mobile Phone Increased by 55% from 2015 to 2017
Parks Associates today released a new whitepaper ahead of IBC, “Video’s Critical Path: Success at Web Speed,” that reports by the end…
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