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Retail
McDonald’s (MCD): Being Open 24/7 Key To Sucess
Try to get a Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) at 3 AM. No such luck. But, according to data given to us by McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD), more than 30% of its 13,700 US stores…
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Investing
Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AIV, BBBY, DVA, LEH, MCD, OPLK, PERY, HOT, TLAB, WLP)
These are the top analyst calls we are looking at this Friday morning: Apartment Investment (NYSE: AIV) Cut To Neutral From Buy at UBS. Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY) Cut To…
9:11am ET
Investing
Big Mergers For A Recession Economy, Do Firms Like Ford, Citigroup, and Sears Go Away?
"The current financial crisis is the most serious since the second world war, and perhaps since the Great Depression."–The London Observer, March 23, 2008 Many investors find it hard to believe that…
11:08am ET
Retail
No Rally For Starbucks (SBUX)
At yesterday’s annual meeting Howard Schultz, founder of Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX), said he would fix the company or die with his boots on. He may wanted to be fitted for an extra…
9:06am ET
Investing
Early Recovery Laggards (AMGN, ARII, IP, MCD, SRZ, URI)
It almost seems that no matter what happens, there are always some major companies whose shares just won’t recover when the broad market recovers. Sometimes it’s on news, and sometimes it is…
9:28am ET
Investing
Investors Searching For Defensive Safe Havens (PEP, MRK, JNJ, KO, BUD, KFT, CAG, CPB, HRL, MCD, MO, PG, CL)
Investors usually try to find stocks where they run for cover when the stock market is in turmoil. This Monday is no exception after seeing the Bear Stearns implosion "takeunder" and the…
10:08am ET
Commodities & Metals
McDonald’s (MCD), Sara Lee (SLE) And Wheat
The price of wheat has gone up three-fold in ten months. For something that looks like a weed, that is an impressive run. Since a large number of business from McDonald’s (NYSE:…
7:14am ET
Retail
McDonald’s (MCD) Has Boffo February
McDonald’s amazed even itself with magnificent same-store sales in February. Ronald McDonald and the other clowns in management watched the firm post February comparable sales which increased 8.3% in the U.S. as…
Douglas A. McIntyre 2:01pm ET
Investing
Defensive Stocks Only A Partial Sanctuary (KO, BUD, KFT, MCD, MO, PG, CL, MRK, JNJ)
Defensive stocks are often the stocks that investors try to use as a safe harbor to wait out the storms. We have covered many of these and even gave our own list…
6:58am ET
Investing
Founder’s Day: Dell, Yahoo!, Starbucks
A big company gets in trouble. The board throws the CEO under a bus and brings back the founder. The stock market figures that the person who built the company is the…
6:42am ET
Investing
A Farewell To The Earnings Season
A lot of smaller companies will continue to report earnings over the next several weeks, but almost all of the really big companies which are on calendar fiscals have put out their…
10:04am ET
Retail
Can Yum! Brands Continue Its Earnings Surge? (YUM, MCD)
On Monday, we’ll get to see earnings out of Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE:YUM). The estimates from First Call for the fast food franchise giant are $0.42 EPS on $3.14 billion in revenues. …
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Investing
Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ADCT, ARRS, EL, FLML, GERN, HD, LOW, MCD, MEDX, NOVL, NMX, DIS)
These are not the only pre-market analyst calls that are moving stocks, but these are the calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on: ADC Telecom (NASDAQ: ADCT) and Arris (NASDAQ: ARRS) raised to…
6:00am ET
Retail
McDonald’s (MCD) Chinese Take-Out
McDonald’s (MCD) last quarter results were undermined by slow same-store sales growth in the US. It only took the world’s largest fast food chain a day to start to talk about China.…
Douglas A. McIntyre 4:14am ET
Media
Media Digest 1/29/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, another Fed rate cut may stimulate the housing market. Reuters reports that profits at American Express (AXP) fell 10%. Reuters writes that McDonald’s (MCD) will open 150 outlets in…