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Retail
Burger King (BKC) Travels To China
Like so many other US companies, Burger King (BKC) is looking to China for big growth. The US hamburger chain has about a third of its sales outside the US. It thinks…
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Retail
Starbucks (SBUX): Give Shareholders A Free Gift Card
Any investor who held Starbucks (SBUX) shares last November and still has them today has lost about half of his or her money. SBUX hit $40.01 on November 16, 2006. After a…
6:28am ET
Technology
Tech: Made In America With The Jobs Overseas
Most manufacturing has gone out of the US. TVs, cars, steel. What is left? Boeing (BA) and a service and technology economy. Companies like McDonald’s (MCD) can’t export cooking hamburgers and staffing…
11:16am ET
Retail
Starbucks (SBUX) May Have Bottomed
Normally, when McDonald’s (MCD) comes out with strong same-store sales and attributes some of its success to revenue from premium coffee, shares in Starbucks (SBUX) sell off. MCD did just that, saying…
8:10am ET
Investing
More Big Sales At McDonald’s (MCD)
McDonald’s (MCD) same-store worldwide sales rose 8.2% in November. Systemwide sales, including all stores, increased 16.3%. In the U.S., comparable sales increased 4.4% for the month as consumers continue to buy McDonald’s…
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Retail
McDonald’s (MCD) Knifes Starbucks (SBUX) Again
It is not bad enough that Consumer Reports said the McDonald’s (MCD) coffee tastes better than Starbucks (SBUX). Now, the fast good chain says it will introduce morning drinks that are so…
4:55pm ET
Retail
Starbucks 2008 Valuation: $18, $22, or $26 (SBUX, PEET, MCD, CBOU, THI)
We wanted to run some up and down scenarios for Starbucks now that the noise from the research calls have gotten out of the way and now that the post-earnings dust has…
11:33am ET
Banking, finance, and taxes
Is Wendy’s Most Likely Scenario A Take-Under? (WEN, MCD, TRY, BKC)
Despite reports that Wendy’s International Inc. (NYSE:WEN) would-be acquisition process is being hampered by liquidity concerns in the credit markets, its stock is actually up about 2% today. Bids are due today…
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Investing
Defensive Stocks Show Rotation Out of Tech (PEP, KO, BUD, TAP, KFT, CAG, CPB, HRL, MCD, MO, VGR, RAI, PG, CL, MRK, JNJ, NVO)
The markets haven’t fallen apart after yesterday’s 360 point dive on the DJIA, but we are still trading a tad lower today. Now that Cisco Systems is showing you can’t just automatically…
11:33am ET
Investing
Starbucks (SBUX) Hits 52-Week Low, While McDonald’s (MCD) Hits High
A chart is worth a thousand words. Or, maybe more. Starbucks (SBUX) hit another 52-week lows today at $23.29, down 3%. McDonald’s (MCD), which delivered strong same-store sales, is up 1.6% to…
8:54am ET
Retail
McDonald’s (MCD): The Hamburger Economy
McDonald’s (MCD) has an increase in same-store sales for October of 6.9%. Overall system-wides sales were up 14.2%. In the U.S., comparable sales climbed 5.4% as customers continue to visit McDonald’s for…
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Investing
Defensive Stocks Show No Panic Rotation (PEP, KO, BUD, TAP, KFT, CAG, CPB, HRL, MCD, MO, VGR, RAI, PG, CL, MRK, JNJ, NVO)
With the markets down so much today on the financial stock fallout after the Citi downgrade/concern and with oil stocks listing lower after the Exxon miss, we wanted to show a brief…
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Investing
Mutual Fund Year-End Window Dressing Meets FOMC Date (MSFT, CSCO, GOOG, AAPL, RIMM, VMW, EMC, KO, YUM, MCD, BIDU, CROX, DELL, SCI, GS, STT, NYX, TXT)
Wednesday is much more than Halloween and it is more than the FOMC announcement date. We have an event that has been perhaps more influential to many key stocks than the upcoming…
9:29am ET
Investing
October Short Interest For NYSE Stocks
Following is the short interest in stocks of major companies traded on the NYSE. Figures are as of October 15 and compare to numbers on September 28, 2007. Most of the large…
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Economy
DJIA Components 20 Years After The Crash (MO, GM, IBM, MCD, MRK, MMM, PG, UTX) Part 2
Astoday is the 20th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash, 24/7 WallSt. wanted to go back in time to review how the individual DJIAcomponents held up around the time and how…