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    Are Happy Meal’s Hurting McDonald’s Brand Image?

    McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) has had a mediocre year so far. Its same store sales are up 0.2% through July in the U.S. while margins face downward pressure due to increased reliance on less profitable value meals. Furthermore, there...


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    4 Big Stocks Going Ex-Dividend On August 29, 2013

    Submitted by Dividend Yield as part of our contributors program . Buying stocks before the ex-dividend date is simple. If you buy a stock before the ex-dividend date and hold them, you will receive the next dividend. Buying high yielding stock...


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    McDonald’s Weak Comparable Sales Weigh On Margins

    McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) announced a tepid set of results, bogged down by weak comparable store sales and unfavorable currency conversions. Total revenues grew 1% to $7.1 billion while net income rose 4% to $1.4 billion. McDonal...



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    The Biggest Myth About Emerging Markets

    Submitted by  Wall St. Daily as part of our  contributors program File this one under “Much ado about nothing!” As I pointed out on Friday, stocks in the most popular emerging markets are getting clobbered. Truthfully, the entire emerging mark...


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    McDonald’s Gobbles Up Growth In May But Concerns Remain

    Sales of  McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) finally showed signs of normalizing as it registered a 2.6% growth in the same-store sales in May. In the U.S., the figure rose by 2.4%. Prior to May, McDonald’s had failed to register a sal...



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    How Peter Lynch Got It Right 20 Years Ago

    Submitted by Abby Joseph at Profit Confidential as part of our contributors program . There’s always strength in numbers. The equities market is definitely due for a prolonged break, but one subsector I always follow is restaurant stocks ...



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    NYSE Margin Debt Close to Pre-Financial Crisis Highs

    Submitted by Abby Joseph at Profit Confidential as part of our contributors program . The key stock indices have been rising since the beginning of the year, and there is still room for them to rise even higher as optimism concerning stocks cont...



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    Stock Market Fake-Out: Where Is the Retrenchment?

    Submitted by Abby Joseph at Profit Confidential as part of our contributors program . This is unbelievable. Johnson & Johnson (NYSE/JNJ) jumped about 23% since the beginning of the year, not including its dividend payment. This upside on t...


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    20 Dividend Aristocrats With The Highest Margins From The Index

    Submitted by Dividend Yield as part of our contributors program . Dividend Aristocrats with highest operating margins originally published at “ long-term-investments.blogspot.com “. Dividend Aristocrats are some of the best dividen...

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