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Investing
Burritos for Breakfast (YUM, MCD)
Fast food giant Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) has rolled out a new breakfast menu at its Taco Bell stores to help it compete with rival McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) in the…
MCD Coverage Page 85
8:15am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (DVA, DNDN, GS, HGG, KEY, MCD, MS, ORCL, RF, SBUX, ZNGA)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Wednesday morning. DaVita, Inc. (NYSE: DVA) Raised to Outperform as Bull…
6:35am ET
Media
Media Digest (1/25/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has another blow-out quarter driven by iPhone sales. (Reuters) Japan has its first trade deficit since 1980. (Reuters) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) posts weak earnings on a revenue drop. (Reuters)…
6:24am ET
Investing
Quiznos Sets Debt Restructure
The small chain restaurant business become more difficult every day. Bennigans is trying to rebuild a business which went into Chapter 11. A&W group was sold by Yum! Brands because it is no…
8:24am ET
Retail
McDonald’s Shows What Continued Earnings Success Looks Like (MCD)
McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE: MCD) has managed to beat earnings again. The Golden Arches sell fast food in good times and bad. Earnings were $1.33 EPS on a near 10% revenue gain to…
Jon C. Ogg 8:17am ET
Investing
McDonald’s Cruises Past Estimates (MCD)
Fast food giant McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) better than matched expectations this morning when it reported fourth quarter and full-year results. For the quarter, the company posted EPS of $1.33 on revenue…
Paul Ausick 12:56pm ET
Investing
11 DJIA Reporting Earnings This Week (DD, JNJ, MCD, TRV, VZ, BA, UTX, T, CVX, PG)
This coming week is going to be yet another action packed week of big corporate earnings which will move markets or will move their sectors. 24/7 Wall St. has identified each of…
3:34pm ET
Industrials
11 DJIA Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (DD, JNJ, MCD, TRV, VZ, BA, UTX, T, CVX, PG)
The coming week is going to be yet another action packed week of big corporate earnings which will move markets or will move their sectors. 24/7 Wall St. has identified the DJIA…
4:08pm ET
Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (CHK, GOOG, KR, LNG, CCL, CREE, SCHW, FAST, GS, STT, CLWT, UEPS, COOL, KUTV, AAPL, MCD, NKE)
Markets opened slightly lower in the US this morning, but picked up steam in the morning and continued to rise, if slowly, for the rest of the day. The tech sector showed…
2:52pm ET
Investing
Over 10 Big Stocks Hitting New All-Time Highs (AAPL, DLTR, ECL, MCD, MNST, NKE, PNRA, SBUX, AAP, AZO, ORLY)
The logic from technical traders is simple: “Stocks hitting new highs tend to keep hitting new highs.” Eventually that comes to an end, sometimes a painful end. Until that end arrives it…
9:24am ET
Companies and Brands
Top Brands in 2011 (KO, IBM, MSFT, GOOG, GE, MCD, INTC, AAPL, DIS, HPQ, NOK, CSCO, TM, AMZN, F, HMC, DE)
Brand consultancy Interbrand has issued its latest report on brand value, and while the top five did not change, a gap is opening between the fourth and fifth place finishers. The largest…
3:03pm ET
Investing
Beef Prices Rise on Smaller US Herds (MCD, WEN, SONC, RUTH, MRT)
US beef prices rose about 10% in 2011 and could go up another 5% this year, raising prices at supermarkets and at restaurants owned by McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD, The Wendy’s Co.…
7:44am ET
Investing
Chinese Restaurant Chain Approves US Takeover (YUM, MCD)
A chain of more than 450 Little Sheep restaurants scattered throughout China has agreed to a takeover offer made last April by Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM). Yum, with more than 4,000…
8:19am ET
Investing
Dunkin’ Sets New Supply Chain Deal (DNKN, SBUX, MCD, YUM)
Dunkin’ Brands Inc. (NASDAQ: DNKN) has signed a new deal with its subsidiary National DCP LLC, under which National will be the exclusive supply chain provider for Dunkin’s more than 7,000 US…
5:26pm ET
Investing
The Five Least Attractive DJIA Stocks (HD, MCD, TRV, VZ, WMT)
Jon OggMost investors are likely glad that 2012 is here to have 2011 behind them. This is an election year and many investors are wondering whether the U.S. and its large companies…