Andrea Beasley
The Archive
At Big Blue’s facility, an official Timex out
The New York Giants signed a new multiyear sponsorship deal with Quest Diagnostics — a health-information supplier based in Madison, NJ — for their 20-acre training facility in the Meadowlands....
Congress set to roll back college-loan rate hikes
Millions of college students can breathe a little easier this fall. Ending a months-long showdown, Congress is on track to approve legislation that will roll back a rate hike that...
McDonald’s stock fries on disappointing results
New promotions and cheaper eats couldn’t save McDonald’s from economic weakness in Europe.The fast-food giant missed second-quarter profit and sales estimates and its shares dipped 2.7 percent — its largest...
Whirlpool Q2 soars
Second-quarter profits for home appliance manufacture Whirlpool show signs of a strengthening housing market. The Benton Harbor, Mich., company reported a 75.4 percent gain in profits in the period as...
This sucks: Smokers earn $6K less a year
Your career could be up in smokes. That’s the butt end of a new study that found employees who smoke cigarettes earn 17.5 percent less than their colleagues who don’t...
Burning cash: employees who smoke cigs earn 17.5% less than non-smokers
Your career could be up in smokes. That’s the butt end of a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, which found that employees who smoke cigarettes earn...
Student loan relief
Students can look forward to lower interest rates on federal loans this fall. Capitol Hill sources say a vote to reduce the rate for undergraduates to 3.85 percent from 6.8...
Rate roof at 4.51%
The average 30-year fixed mortgage hit a two-year high on concerns that the Federal Reserve will pull back on mortgage bond purchases.The 30-year home rate averaged 4.51 percent, up from...
Q2 not so tasty for Yum!
Yum! Brands, owner of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, reported decreased second-quarter profit yesterday, but topped analysts’ estimates in the wake of a sales decline in China. The Louisville,...
Home prices on a high
The housing market is sizzling this summer.Home prices surged 12.2 percent in May compared with last year, the biggest annual gain in seven years, according to a report from real-estate...
Student loan doomsday looms
Rates on federally subsidized student loans will double on Monday, adding yet another financial burden for millions of college students — but Congress may act soon to reverse the hike....
Student loan doomsday looms
Rates on federally subsidized student loans will double on Monday, adding yet another financial burden for millions of college students — but Congress may act soon to reverse the hike....
Tough times for new grads
Recent college grads are dealing with an unwanted post-graduate double major: high debt and a weak job market. Student debt almost tripled between 2004 and 2012, according to the Federal...
'Soup Nazi' whose broth inspired 'Seinfeld' humor is rolling out a fleet of food trucks
The “Soup Nazi” is hitting the road! The company whose broth inspired the “Seinfeld” totalitarian soup-slinger is expanding with a fleet of food trucks. Original SoupMan is shilling franchise rights...
Gogo’s IPO good to go
After 18 months, Gogo Inc., a provider of WiFi on airplanes, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange this morning. The Itasca, Ill., company, which filed for a public...
$150M for Fab.com
Fab.com, a trendy online retailer, has closed a $150 million round of financing, valuing it at $1 billion, CEO Jason Goldberg said yesterday. The 2-year-old New York company will use...
Fund$ for Fullscreen
Fullscreen, a digital media company that operates 10,000 YouTube channels, is getting an influx of cash — a reported $30 million — to fuel its expansion. The Chernin Group led...
Fullscreen YouTube channel gets Chernin-led cash infusion
The picture is getting brighter for YouTube network Fullscreen. The digital media company, which operates thousands of channels on Google’s video-sharing site, is getting an influx of cash to fuel...
Mortgage rates rise, near 4%
Fear that the Federal Reserve will soon cut back on its $85 billion a month bond purchases has forced mortgage rates to rise for six straight weeks — putting the...
Get a whiff of this
It smells like money. Perfume maker Coty Inc. priced its initial public offering at $17.50 — the midpoint of the proposed range. The New York company’s IPO raised about $1...