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On Monday, the stock market will take the day off to shake the confetti out of its hair. But on Tuesday, it'll be back to business as usual on Wall Street. Here are some of the items that will shape the first trading week of 2012.

This ice cream lover is sure she's not alone in harboring affection for Friendly's, which started out as a Depression-era ice cream shop. But when its parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday, she certainly wasn't surprised.

Next week's biggest news is all but certain to be Apple's introduction of the iPhone 5, led by new CEO Tim Cook. Beyond that, there will be quarterly reports from Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden, Red Lobster), Monsanto, and Costco, as well as a big-screen offering from IMAX.

These days, you can go just about anywhere for a cheap lunch. Taco Bell has their 79-89-99 cents menu; Burger King and McDonald's have similar values. But the real questions is "How much quality do you get for your loose change?" There's nothing wrong with bean burritos from Taco Bell. In fact,...

If you are holidaying in India, and miss the taste of home, don't fret. Along with KFC, Pizza Hut, Mc Donald's, TGI Friday's and Ruby Tuesdays there will now be Taco Bell to make you feel at home. Yum! Brands, Inc. the parent company of Pizza Hut, KFC etc., recently announced the unveiling of the...

If you've eaten a steak at Ruby Tuesday and wondered why it seemed smaller than you expected, you might not be imagining things. The restaurant chain's meat supplier was cited by Massachusetts officials after an inspection showed widespread short-weighting of shipments of its steaks. After a...

Goodbye Ruby Tuesday -- or at least the Ruby Tuesday we once knew. Gone are the knock-off Tiffany lamps and the cheesy knickknacks that once served as such great comedic fodder for the fictional restaurant Chotchkie's in the movie Office Space Gone, too, are the waitstaff clad in white shirts and...

The consumer may be starting to make a really slow comeback. Shares of teen retailer Hot Topic Inc. (HOTT) were surging in pre-market trading after it forecast a first quarter profit of 1 to 2 cents per share, an improvement over its prior outlook for a 1-cent loss to a 1-cent profit. Strong sales...