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Media Digest: Reuters, WSJ, NY Times, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 13, 2013 at 6:46 am

China's factory output misses expectations on the low side. (Reuters) Posting on Google+ has been low, hurting the chance for Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) to get ads for the service. ...
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McDonald’s Menu, Value Pricing Not Helping Sales

Posted: May 8, 2013 at 9:15 am

Comparable-store sales at McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) fell 0.6% year-over-year in April, with sales down in two of the company’s three geographic regions. Only U.S. sales grew, up by a ...
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Another Bad Meat Problem for Yum! Brands in China

Posted: May 6, 2013 at 8:15 am

Food safety authorities in Shanghai are investigating a meat wholesaler that supplies a Chinese restaurant chain with lamb. The Little Sheep restaurant chain is owned by Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: ...
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Yum! Wastes Shareholder Money on Kentucky Derby

Posted: May 5, 2013 at 7:47 pm

Every shareholder of Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) should have gotten a seat at the Kentucky Derby, or at least a spot next to the event's red carpet. Yum! Brands ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Apple, Intuit, MetroPCS and More

Posted: April 25, 2013 at 8:35 am

Investors and traders are usually on the lookout for new research ideas that will generate higher income or more profits. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many analyst research calls from Wall ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — April 24, 2013: Markets Mixed at Open, Mixed at Close

Posted: April 24, 2013 at 4:10 pm

U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning as investors and traders tried to make sense of more than 150 earnings reports that were released between last night’s closing bell and ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — April 23, 2013: Flash Crash Has No Impact on Rising Stocks

Posted: April 23, 2013 at 4:07 pm

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning despite low flash PMI readings from the eurozone. Germany’s manufacturing PMI reading was especially notable, falling to 47.9 from 49, and the country’s ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades and Cautious Views from Wall Street

Posted: April 23, 2013 at 8:25 am

Investors often get to see many Buy ratings from Wall St. analysts, but they often do not see when these analysts give lists of stocks to sell nor when the analysts have very ...
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China Mobile Earnings: Good News or Bad for Apple?

Posted: April 22, 2013 at 11:40 am

The world’s largest mobile carrier, China Mobile Ltd. (NYSE: CHL), reported first-quarter earnings today, posting revenue growth of 5.7% and profit growth of just 0.3%. In its press release, the ...
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McDonald’s: 24/7 Wall St. Company of the Week

Posted: April 19, 2013 at 1:53 pm

In December 2008, 24/7 Wall St. named the CEO of McDonald’s Inc. (NYSE: MCD) its CEO of the year. James Skinner, who retired as the company’s CEO last summer, was ...
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Is McDonald’s Entering a No-Growth Era?

Posted: April 19, 2013 at 8:40 am

McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) reported first-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. For the quarter, the fast-food restaurant chain posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.26 on revenues ...
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Media Digest (4/11/2013) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 11, 2013 at 6:27 am

Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM), Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (NYSE: HMC) and Nissan will recall 3.4 million cars over airbag defects. (Reuters) Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) faces slow KFC ...
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Short Interest Wanes in Active Stocks (GE, NOK, BAC, VZ, ANR, MCD, AAPL, BBRY, MSFT, DELL, GMCR, CSCO)

Posted: April 10, 2013 at 8:05 am

We have tracked the key short interest changes as of March 28 in the following large cap stocks: General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), Bank of America ...
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Bird Flu Outbreak Threatens Yum! Brands

Posted: April 8, 2013 at 10:05 am

Shares of Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) plunged this morning following a downgrade on the company’s shares from analysts at UBS. The company already had forecast a weaker first half ...
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How the U.S. Is Making the Rest of the World Fat

Posted: April 4, 2013 at 7:05 am

People who live in nations where most residents were thin, at least as measured against the tremendous number of obese Americans, are getting fatter. Bloomberg blames this, in part, on ...
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