"On Obama" is a weekly column about Barack Obama and American politics. On the morning of Nov. 5, 2008, the day after Barack Obama's election, I sat in the office of my Chicago apartment, filled, like most Americans, with a peculiar sense of hope. It see

What does Goldman Sachs have in common with Red Lobster and Macy’s? They all loathe the Volcker Rule. While Wall Street is the chief critic of the rule, which bars banks from trading with their own money, the financial industry is finding sympathy from s

New York, NY - ColorofChange has launched a campaign calling on Darden Restaurants, the owners and operators of Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Longhorn Steakhouse and the Capital Grille, to respond to a set of demands put forth by its workers in a recent law

Although business headlines still tout earnings numbers, many investors have moved past net earnings as a measure of a company's economic output. That's because earnings are very often less trustworthy than cash flow, since earnings are more open to mani

Investment analysts at Stephens assumed coverage on shares of Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) in a note issued to investors on Tuesday. They set an “equal weight” rating on the stock. Separately, analysts at Zacks Investment Research downgraded shares of

Procter & Gamble’s failure to raise the price of Cascade dishwashing soap shows why investors are buying Treasuries at the lowest yields in history, giving the Federal Reserve more scope to boost the economy. The world’s largest consumer-products company