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This Jan. 16, 2020 photo shows the giant guitar at the entrance to the Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City N.J. On May 3, 2021, Hard Rock officials told The Associated Press they will spend $20 million on renovations, the latest in a line of Atlantic City casinos to reinvest during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Despite virus, Atlantic City casinos reinvesting millions

By Wayne Parry May. 03, 2021 07:14 AM EDT

A sign is displayed over a McDonald's restaurant, Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa. The burger giant said Thursday, April 29 its first quarter sales surpassed even those in 2019, led by a big jump in U.S. demand. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

McDonald's comes roaring back as restrictions ease

By Dee-Ann Durbin Apr. 29, 2021 07:06 AM EDT

A customers exits the drive thru lane at a Starbucks coffee shop, Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa. After four straight quarters of sales declines, Starbucks returned to growth in the January-March period. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Starbucks returns to sales growth in its fiscal Q2

By Dee-Ann Durbin Apr. 27, 2021 06:56 PM EDT

FILE - This April 9, 2020 file photo shows a McDonald's sign in Wheeling, Ill. McDonald’s ended 2020 on a strong note, recovering nearly all of the global sales lost in the pandemic despite a resurgent virus. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

McDonald's US sales strong in Q4, but COVID drags elsewhere

By Dee-Ann Durbin Jan. 28, 2021 07:32 AM EST

A Starbucks coffee truck continues to serve students and staff in an otherwise nearly deserted Red Square on the University of Washington campus Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, in Seattle. Starbucks’ recovery slowed at the end of last year as U.S. coronavirus cases mounted, but the coffee titan says it’s confident its U.S. business will fully recover by March. The Seattle-based company said Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021 that its global sales at stores opened at least a year fell 5% in the October-December period. That was an improvement from the prior quarter, but it was still a bigger decline than the 4% drop Wall Street was expecting, according to analysts polled by FactSet. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Starbucks' recovery, solid in China, still slow in the US

By Dee-Ann Durbin Jan. 26, 2021 05:06 PM EST

FILE - In this May 3, 2019, file photo, an Original Impossible Burger, left, and a Cali Burger, from Umami Burger, are shown in this photo in New York. American plant-based meat company Impossible Foods Inc. is awaiting regulatory approval to enter the China market, while rivals such as Beyond Meat have pushed forward with plans to set up production in China despite edgy relations between Beijing and Washington. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

China becoming battleground for plant-based meat makers

By Zen Soo Sep. 11, 2020 12:14 AM EDT

FILE- This Dec. 13, 2018, file photo shows a sign for a Starbucks Coffee shop in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. Starbucks says it’s seeing steady recovery as its stores reopen, but it expects the impact of the new coronavirus to last well into the fall. The coffee giant said Tuesday, July 28, 2020 that revenue in its fiscal third quarter plummeted 38% to $4.2 billion. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Starbucks says it sees better times ahead as stores reopen

By Dee-Ann Durbin Jul. 28, 2020 04:54 PM EDT

FILE - A Best Buy employee delivers an item to a waiting client in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Best Buy, the nation's largest consumer electronics chain, will require customers to wear face coverings at all of its stores nationwide, even in states or localities that don't require them to do so. The company said Tuesday, July 14, 2020 it will provide a face covering if a customer doesn’t have one, and small children and those unable to wear one for health reasons may enter without one. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Best Buy to require customers to wear masks amid virus spike

By Anne D'innocenzio Jul. 14, 2020 04:16 PM EDT

Simon Property, Starbucks fall; Five Below, AMC rise

Jun. 10, 2020 04:18 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially on Wednesday: Simon Property Group Inc., down $3.46 to $83.01 ...

A worker disinfects the street outside Congress during a government-ordered lockdown to curb the spread of the new coronavirus in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Housing market chills, layoffs, companies boost virus fight

The Associated Press Apr. 08, 2020 10:08 AM EDT