McDonald’s (MCD) Has Boffo February

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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 McDonald’s market- leading breakfast, Premium Roast Coffee and everyday value offerings continue to fuel performance.

Sales in Europe were up 15.4% as Irishmen and Frog stuffed their arteries with the good stuff.

In Asia same-store figures moved up 10.9%.

Always a master of understatement McDonald’s Chief Executive Officer Jim Skinner said "Our focus on our customers around the world continues to deliver results and drive McDonald’s global business."

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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