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...His hope is that instead of customers trading up from McDonald’s, they might trade down from restaurants....
...Victoria & Albert Museum Cromwell Road The V&A returns as the LDF’s official hub and host of the Global Design Forums — a series of talks, including Merel Bekking on “Brain Manufacturing”, which explores...
...Well look, the barbarians are back at the gate demanding more,” said Justin Danhof referring to McDonald’s entry-level wage increase to $10 an hour at its company-owned restaurants....
...The Austin, Texas-based company lowered the top end of its full-year outlook, following three previous cuts to guidance....
...Texas Instruments, a maker of semiconductors and calculators, was one of the biggest fallers in the S&P 500, losing 2 per cent to $24.19 after it raised the low end of its quarterly forecasts but failed...
...Traditionally defensive stocks such as McDonald’s failed to escape the declines....
...McDonald’s results also unsettled investors. The restaurant chain said first-quarter profit beat analysts’ estimates but comparable-store sales in the US dropped for the first time in five years....
...Shares in McDonald's, another component of the blue-chip stock gauge, eased 0.7 per cent to $29 after the restaurant operator reported a 42 per cent rise in profits....
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