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In this article HD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Home Depot on Tuesday topped Wall Street’s quarterly sales expectations, even as elevated interest rates and housing prices dampened consumer demand for large remodels and pricier projects. For the full year ahead, the company said it expects total sales to grow by 2.8% and comparable
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Rothy’s Store Courtesy: Rothy’s Direct-to-consumer footwear brand Rothy’s just recorded its best year on record after the company appointed retail veteran Jenny Ming, one of the co-founders of Old Navy, as its CEO.  Ming took the helm of the flats maker from co-founder Stephen Hawthornthwaite in January 2024. Under her direction, the company grew sales
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In this article SBUX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Starbucks’ corporate headquarters seen in Seattle. The company announced its Q2 earnings on 27th Apr 2021.  Toby Scott | Lightrocket | Getty Images Starbucks will lay off 1,100 corporate employees and will not fill several hundred other open positions, the coffee chain’s CEO, Brian Niccol,
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In this article UNH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT FILE PHOTO: The logo of Down Jones Industrial Average stock market index listed company UnitedHealthcare is shown in Cypress, California April 13, 2016.  Mike Blake | Reuters UnitedHealthcare is in hot water again as the insurance giant grapples with a reported government investigation of its
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Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards EatOkra’s mobile app lists nearby Black-owned restaurants. Courtesy: EatOkra When Anthony Edwards Jr. and his then-girlfriend, Janique, first moved to Brooklyn in 2016, they struggled to find food that was comfortable and familiar to them. They explored their neighborhood, Edwards said, but had a hard time finding Black-owned restaurants nearby.
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In this article CVS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT David Joyner, a longtime CVS executive, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on May 10, 2023. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images CVS Health CEO David Joyner on Wednesday defended controversial pharmacy middlemen like his company’s
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A little-known biotech company stunned the biopharmaceutical industry last spring when it declared an “unprecedented” achievement: its experimental cancer drug looked more effective than Merck‘s Keytruda in a clinical trial. The company, Summit Therapeutics, licensed the drug from Chinese company Akeso Inc.  In October, a group of life science investors announced they were putting $400
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Brown Girl Jane’s sales have more than doubled since the brand got picked up by Sephora last year. The beauty retailer took the 15 Percent Pledge, an effort to add more Black-owned brands to shelves. Courtesy: Brown Girl Jane Fragrance brand Brown Girl Jane’s perfume bottles sit on shelves at Sephora near some of the
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