McDonald`s Corp

NYSE: MCD
$292.63
-$5.93 (-2.0%)
Closing Price on November 15, 2024

MCD Articles

We have already run the 5 of the 30 DJIA components that reported earnings this morning.  But we still have 7 more of the 30 DJIA components reporting during the rest of this week alone.   The...
We have almost an endless wave of corporate earnings for the calendar Q3-2009 coming out next week.  We have what looks to be over 100 of the S&P 500 Index members reporting and what appears to...
McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) was supposed to crush Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) in the premium coffee business when the world’s largest restaurant chain introduced a line of premium java more than a year...
Janet L. Yellen is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and a voting member of the Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee. She is highly pessimistic about an economic recovery. Yellen...
Several consulting firms post annual figures for the world’s most valuable brands. The two best known are probably the Interbrand and BrandZ surveys. They are notably different, up until now at...
Reuters:   GM has made its decision on Opel and will announce it today. Reuters:   Foreign car makers are having trouble with the affluent market in China Reuters:   Steve Jobs made a...
Reuters:   Richard Fuld defended his actions at Lehman. Reuters:   Manpower says the outlook for hiring is US is weak. Reuters:   Gold futures topped $1,000. Reuters:   Kraft (KFT) will...
Wasn’t it just last week that we were up eight days in a row on the DJIA?  And now we have a sell-the-news reaction to the recent growth numbers.  Maybe it is because we ran too far too fast and...
Several companies run annual brand valuations. It is a good business for advertising and marketing firms to be viewed as experts on brands. Brand values are based on the cash flow they create, and...
The Twitter outage introduces the concept of whether anyone would really miss the service if it went away. Financial experts have argued that Twitter is not worth much even with its 30 million or so...
Twitter had another hacker attack yesterday. Several media outlets reported that the micro-blogging system was down periodically though the early morning and afternoon. The service had more severe...
Reuters:   The Congressional Oversight Panel said the Treasury should do more to get toxic assets off bank balance sheets. Reuters:   A federal judge still refuses to sign off on an SEC deal with...
These are this Monday’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks.  More detailed price and volume data is provided via a link to each story at VSInvestor.com: Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) and...
The news out of McDonald’s (MCD) continues to be good. Same-store sales rose 4.3% in the second quarter, but EPS dropped to $.98 from $1.04. But, last year’s gain was up $.10 due to the sale of a...
This week will mark the first crest of earnings season as we have 11 of the 30 DJIA components reporting earnings this week alone.  On Tuesday, we have earnings from Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT),...