Beyond Meat

If you’ve followed video game news for, oh, six months, you should pretty much know what to expect when a console-maker (non-Nintendo) announces that it’s going to show off a handful of the first new games for its new system. It’s going to be the meat and potatoes stuff, like…

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 rose above 71,000 on Wednesday, as President Donald Trump appeared to back off his announcement that he would phase out the government task force created to manage the pandemic. Trump said on a visit to Arizona on Tuesday that he…

The deal brings Impossible Foods much closer to achieving its 2020 expansion target. America's largest supermarket chain and second-largest retailer, Kroger (NYSE:KR), started offering Impossible Foods' vegan burgers today at 1,700 of its locations. The Impossible Burger and other products, 100% plant-based and featuring both soy and potato protein, were…

NewsWatch Published: May 5, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. ET MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE U.S. stocks trade higher as the market took heart from the easing of business lockdowns in the U.S. and Europe in particular, amid hopes for an early vaccine to prevent the further spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. See…

Disney is one of several stocks that could make big moves over the next few trading days. Stocks were essentially flat last week. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) shed less than 0.3% as first-quarter earnings reports started flooding in. Indexes are lower by over…

Screenshot: BungieIn its latest weekly blog post Bungie laid out plans to address some of players’ biggest complaints about the current state of Destiny 2, including how content disappears once a season ends and the game’s recent emphasis on grinding bounties.Destiny 2 operates on a seasonal basis with new activities,…

Wall Street analysts knew first-quarter earnings would be bad this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but they’ve been even worse than expected as companies are beating forecasts by the lowest rate in at least 10 years.Companies and analysts typically play a game of lowering earnings expectations to make them…

The Smithfield pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which is home to one of the largest single clusters of coronavirus infections in the US. AP Photo/Stephen Groves The coronavirus does not affect all people equally — and we are learning more about exactly how so.Data from The New…

Properly handling and cooking meat is key to avoiding illnesses caused by pathogens like salmonella, but there’s a fine line between the technical aspects and the art of telling whether a piece of meat has been adequately cooked. A new study recently published in PLOS ONE found that when it…

In the latest trading session, Beyond Meat (BYND) closed at $99.52, marking a -0.11% move from the previous day. This change was narrower than the S&P 500's daily loss of 0.52%. Elsewhere, the Dow lost 0.13%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 1.4%.Coming into today, shares of the plant-based meat company…