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It had to happen. After the June 11 market close, Elon Musk took his Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (otherwise known as SpaceX) public. Price: $135 a share. Result: The company raised some $75 billion before expenses. The next day, when the ...

While the global market for eating out is projected to grow from $1.9 trillion now to more than $3 trillion by 2030, many individual chains have been taken down by short-term pressures such as rising operating costs and a changing customer base.

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Restaurant chains are finding that one of the fastest ways to get customers talking is to bring back something they thought was gone. The charm of nostalgia is not lost on customers, and restaurant chains know it. Consequently, they are increasingly ...

When gas prices go up, consumers generally shift their spending away from other areas because, in many cases, driving isn't optional. "Faced with higher gasoline bills, some households may be inclined to trim their spending on other things. In the ...

AEI's Andrew Biggs, CRFB's Marc Goldwein and CBPP's Kathleen Romig break down what Social Security's "crisis" really means--because it's not simply "bankruptcy." The core issue is a funding timing problem: the program's trust fund is projected to run ...

Bank of America watches about 38.7 million checking accounts. That's not a marketing number. It's the size of the window the bank has into how ordinary Americans are actually spending their money, week by week. When Brian Moynihan speaks about the ...

The most dangerous moment for a stock is rarely when the skeptics pile on. It is when the last true believer quietly heads for the door. Wall Street runs on a simple hierarchy. There are the analysts who never liked a company, the ones who flip with ...

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