Texas Roadhouse is in a tough spot but still delivering on everything it can control

Texas Roadhouse on Thursday evening reported a mixed third quarter as stubbornly high beef prices continued to weigh on profitability, overshadowing what was otherwise the highest quarterly revenue, same-store sales, and traffic growth of the year. Revenue in the quarter ending Sept. 30 increased 12.8% year over year to $1.44 billion, exceeding the LSEG-complied Wall…

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AstraZeneca gets a shot on Wall Street

This report is from this week’s CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. The dispatch There is an old British saying about buses: you wait ages for one and then two arrive at once. Pharmaceuticals analysts experienced something similar on Monday as the big two U.K. drugmakers — GSK and AstraZeneca —…

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FEMA rejects western Maryland flood aid request

Maryland Governor Wes Moore (D) said the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rejected his state’s appeal for federal disaster relief for flooding in May. moore, In Thursday’s releasecalled the move “extremely disappointing” and said it “leaves Marylanders to fend for themselves.” “FEMA has a responsibility to objectively weigh the merits of each emergency request,” Moore…

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