• What’s News in Earnings: Consumer Shakiness Worries Food and Drink Companies

  • May 5 2025
  • Length: 9 mins
  • Podcast

What’s News in Earnings: Consumer Shakiness Worries Food and Drink Companies

  • Summary

  • Bonus Episode for May 5. Consumers are in belt-tightening mode. Many are buying less, reconsidering their purchases and feeling rattled by volatile markets and the Trump administration’s shape-shifting tariff policies. For soda makers like Pepsi and restaurant chains like McDonald’s, those are worrisome developments. So how are they responding? WSJ reporter Laura Cooper discusses w hat companies are saying in earnings reports and analyst calls. Chip Cutter hosts this special bonus episode of What's News in Earnings looking at what’s going on under the hood of the American economy. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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