McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD)

McDonald’s to Spend Billions to Upgrade Restaurants

Posted: August 15, 2018 at 6:25 am

McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD) does not like its own restaurants anymore. It will spend billions of dollars to change thousands of them. And the effort is a community service to ...
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Walgreens, DowDuPont Boost the Dow Tuesday

Posted: August 14, 2018 at 4:01 pm

August 14, 2018: Markets opened higher again Tuesday and, unlike Monday, the three major indexes were able to hold on and even add to the gains they started with. Concern ...
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Disney, Pfizer Keep the Dow Flat Wednesday

Posted: August 8, 2018 at 4:01 pm

August 8, 2018: Markets opened narrowly mixed Wednesday and looks set to end the regular trading session the same way. The blue-chip Dow index traded lower all day while the ...
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Caterpillar Makes First Visit to Dow’s Cellar

Posted: August 4, 2018 at 9:55 am

Industrial giant Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) had a poor week despite posting second-quarter earnings and revenues that beat expectations and raising its profit forecast for the full year. Shares lost ...
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FDA Warns on Salad Contamination at Some McDonald’s Restaurants

Posted: August 3, 2018 at 8:40 am

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported on Thursday that there have been 395 confirmed cases of Cyclospora infections among customers of McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD) stores in 15 ...
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5 Merrill Lynch Defensive Portfolio Stocks That Can Survive a Market Crash

Posted: July 30, 2018 at 8:05 am

Earnings reporting season is starting to wind down this week, and we are about to go into one of the typically slowest months on Wall Street. Traders leave for holidays, ...
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Procter & Gamble Trades Higher but Remains Dow’s Laggard

Posted: July 28, 2018 at 8:50 am

Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) had a pretty good week, at least as far as its share price was concerned. The worst-performing stock year-to-date on the ...
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Investors Not Hungry for McDonald’s Earnings

Posted: July 26, 2018 at 9:40 am

McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) reported its most recent quarterly results before the markets opened on Thursday. The fast-food giant posted $1.99 in earnings per share (EPS) and $5.35 billion in ...
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What to Watch When McDonald’s Reports Thursday Morning

Posted: July 25, 2018 at 1:40 pm

McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) is scheduled to release its second-quarter earnings report before the markets open on Thursday. The consensus estimates from Thomson Reuters call for $1.92 in earnings per ...
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Boeing, McDonald’s, Intel and More Dow Stocks Reporting This Week

Posted: July 22, 2018 at 10:40 am

Last week, seven of the Dow Jones industrial average index components reported their latest quarterly reports, and overall the results have been decent. There were exceptional performances from Microsoft and ...
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7 Stocks to Buy Now That Will Outperform and Still Be Relevant in 2025

Posted: July 11, 2018 at 9:20 am

It pretty much goes without saying that things change, and they can change fast. Apple introduced the first smartphone a short 11 years ago, and now they are ubiquitous. Many ...
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Microsoft, Walgreens Point the Dow Higher Friday

Posted: July 6, 2018 at 4:01 pm

July 6, 2018: Markets opened mixed Friday as the Dow blue chips staggered out of the gate following another mostly upbeat employment report. The slightly higher unemployment rate could signal ...
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2018 Dow Laggards Could Offer Material Upside Into 2019

Posted: July 2, 2018 at 11:05 am

Many investors want to buy stocks when they feel they are cheap, but many of those same investors freeze like a deer in the headlights after bad news or after ...
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Robot Checkout World Grows

Posted: July 2, 2018 at 6:30 am

Stand in line at some McDonald Corp. (NYSE: MCD) stores or at the checkout section at some Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) locations or thousands of pharmacy chain stores. Anyone who ...
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Chipotle Becomes the New Starbucks as It Closes Stores

Posted: June 28, 2018 at 6:25 am

Closing retail locations is bad news, particularly in the fast-food business. It is a signal that management put stores where they should not have been and now has too many. ...
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