Wikimedia CommonsMcDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) is announcing a management change. While most investors focus on CEO or Chairman replacements, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) is often the person who is most involved…
Jon C. Ogg Starbucks has been testing alcohol sales at some 40 of the company's 11,500 U.S. stores, and the coffee purveyor said it is ready now to begin rolling out an evening menu of…
Howard Schultz, the ambitious founder and CEO of Starbucks, believes the coffee company can have a market value of $100 billion, about twice its current level. The goal is ambitious, but Schultz…
thinkstockMarch 19, 2014: Markets opened lower on Wednesday and closed even lower after Janet Yellen’s debut as chairwoman of the U.S Federal Reserve. The major change is that the Fed is dropping…
Workers in California, Michigan and New York have filed class-action lawsuits against McDonald's and several franchise owners alleging wage theft, ranging from failure to pay overtime to depriving workers of meal and…
Paul Ausick thinkstockMarch 11, 2014: Markets opened mixed on Tuesday and turned sharply lower in mid-morning trading as copper prices tumbled below $3 a pound, a level not seen since mid-2010. Because copper is…
In a near repeat of January's results, February same-store sales for McDonald's U.S. stores fell and the company's global sales were rescued by sales in Europe. McDonald's shares were down fractionally in…
Paul Ausick Wikimedia CommonsWhen McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD filed its Form 10-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, the company listed a new risk factor to its business. The company said…
Paul Ausick thinkstockFebruary 10, 2014: Markets opened slightly lower on Monday, and trading was mixed most of the day with Nasdaq posting a small gain and the other two major indexes posting a small…
When fast-food giants McDonald's and Yum! Brands reported fourth-quarter and full-year results for 2013, both chains said that U.S. sales were flat at best for both periods. The main battle between them…
McDonald's released same-store sales results for January on Monday morning and, following a pattern we have seen at many retailers, blamed the weather for a sharp decline in U.S. sales. Gains in…
Paul Ausick Struggling with growth globally, McDonald's will open a restaurant in Vietnam, one of the developing world's fastest growing economies. It needs success outside its traditional strongholds if it hopes to improve its…
Douglas A. McIntyre Many great stocks have fallen from their peaks, and some Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks are actually challenging their 52-week lows. Often it is the stocks that sold off the most that…
The top equity strategist at Merrill Lynch has updated the High Quality and Dividend Yield screen of stocks to buy, adding some names that may provide investors solid 2014 returns.
A worker at a Los Angeles McDonald's outlet will attend President Obama's State of the Union Tuesday evening as the guest of California Representative Linda Sanchez. The White House has indicated that…
