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☆ Here are top stock ideas from UBS to play this earnings season
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The second-quarter earnings season has kicked into high gear, and a slew of stocks have the potential to enjoy a boost when they surprise Wall Street, according to UBS analysts. Then UBS considers an "earnings alpha factor score," which views "value" as the most significant factor and sees "growth," "quality" and "momentum" as factors with enhanced returns. McDonald's could see a pop when it reports quarterly earnings next week, according to UBS' screen. Truist on Tuesday reiterated McDonald's as buy as the Wall Street firm expects same-store sales momentum due to the Grimace birthday meal. Other consumer names Campbell , Kellogg and Kraft Heinz could also outperform in this earnings season, according to UBS.

Persons: McDonald's, Campbell, Kellogg, Kraft Heinz, — CNBC's Michael Bloom Organizations: UBS, Hasbro

☆ How McDonald’s Turned Grimace Into TikTok Gold
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Ashley Wong | Lindsey Choo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ McDonald's social chief: We didn't plant 'Grimace Shake' TikTok trend — and we weren't sure we should jump on it
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A McDonald's social media director has denied rumors the company planted the "Grimace Shake" trend. The TikTok trend saw users faking injury or even death after drinking the limited-edition milkshake. Convenient as that was for the company, it wasn't a plant, a social media director at the fast food giant says. "If you think we planted the grimace shake trend, thank you. He said his first instinct was that he wasn't "sure we should jump in" to what had become a viral trend.

Persons: Guillaume Huin, Austin Frazier, Huin, hashtag, It's, McDonald's didn't, McDonald's Organizations: Service, LinkedIn Locations: Wall, Silicon, TikTok

☆ The Fed is secretly stress testing the US economy against nightmare scenarios
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

When asked how the Fed plans for the worst case scenarios on the geopolitical front, he first responded in Fedspeak. At every Fed policy meeting, he said, “our staff works up six or seven or eight alternative simulations,” he said. The market impact: The policy scenarios considered by the Fed are quite sensitive. That’s likely why when Powell was asked about the scenarios the Fed had most recently considered, he stayed mum. They’re posting elaborate TikToks where they pretend that the McDonald’s Grimace shake has killed them, of course.

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☆ McDonald’s bet on viral success with its Grimace shake. TikTok users are pretending it killed them
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Since the debut of the Grimace shake earlier this month, TikTok users have been excitedly ordering the shake, released in honor of McDonald’s character Grimace’s “birthday,” and then pretending to die on camera after consuming the purple beverage. They often dump the shake over their convulsing bodies, apparently signaling that Grimace, that bumbling bestie of Ronald McDonald, killed them. The Grimace shake, though, has become more infamous than beloved. In a typical “Grimace Shake” TikTok, an enthusiastic young person, Grimace shake in hand, will wish the big purple mascot a happy birthday before taking their first sip. When reached for comment, McDonald’s referred CNN to a tweet from Grimace: “meee pretending i don’t see the grimace shake trendd,” along with a photo of the purple one himself, eyebrows raised.

Persons: McDonald’s, Grimace’s, ”, Ronald McDonald, Matthew Prince, “ It’s, it’s, Grimace, J Balvin, Travis Scott, they’ve, Grimace wasn’t, execs, Ronald McDonald’s, Hamburglar, Bell’s, grimace, “ Organizations: CNN, Chapman University, buzzy, Wine, Wednesday Locations: California, ”

☆ The rivalry between Meta and Apple is moving to a new playing field: virtual reality
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

New York CNN —Months after Apple unveiled a privacy change that threatened Facebook’s core advertising business, the social networking company rebranded as Meta and shifted its focus to virtual reality. Apple (AAPL) on Monday unveiled its mixed reality headset, the Vision Pro, in one of its most ambitious product launches in years. On Thursday, just days before WWDC, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to preempt the expected Apple headset announcement by teasing the Meta Quest 3. Apple on Monday unveiled its first-ever virtual reality headset, challenging Facebook-owner Meta in a market that has yet to gain widespread consumer adoption. Apple chose not to focus on the term “virtual reality,” nor did it show off disembodied avatars without legs inhabiting a virtual world, as Meta did initially.

Persons: Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Meta, Josh Edelson, Morgan Stanley, “ We’re, ” Sheeva, ” Eric Alexander, Apple, ”, Julie, Forrester, Zuckerberg, that’s, Alexander, ’ ”, It’s, D.A, Davidson, Tom Forte, Forte, Blackberry, ” Forte Organizations: New, New York CNN, Apple, Meta, Vision, Microsoft, Google, VR, Facebook, Getty, Street, IDC, ” Sheeva Slovan, Reality Labs, CNN, Apple's, WWDC, Disney Locations: New York, AFP, ’

☆ Haney and Lomachenko Give Lightweight Boxing a Stirring Matchup
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Morgan Campbell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A string of jabs and a crisp right hand. Another assistant coach leaned on the top rope with a clicker in his right hand, and announced that Haney had just surpassed 2,000 punches thrown. Haney, 24, was not just pitty-pat punching to run up numbers as he trains for his title defense on Saturday night against Vasiliy Lomachenko, 35. During a brief pause, the coach holding the mitts wandered over to a corner of the ring and grumbled that Haney had nearly broken his hands. When the action resumed, Bill Haney, Devin’s father and head trainer, asked to borrow a reporter’s notebook and pen.

☆ Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ tour has begun. Here’s what to know before you go
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —If you’re one of the lucky members of the BeyHive who scored tickets to Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” tour this summer, expect one of the more epic nights of your life. Fans have been waiting for this tour since last summer, and it’s finally time to unleash our inner alien superstars. Here’s what “Renaissance” tour-goers need to know before the show hits their hometown (or, before they fly across the world to catch it – the things we do for Beyoncé). Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for ParkwoodThe aesthetic of the “Renaissance” tour, based on the footage fans have captured, is more “Alien Superstar” than “Cuff It”: Think Afrofuturist cyborgs with impeccable style. ), and she lets those in the audience know that a “queen moves at her own pace.” We’ll have to keep waiting on those music videos.

☆ MLB roundup: Gerrit Cole to 5-0 as Yanks win despite Aaron Judge injury
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

DJ LeMahieu and Gleyber Torres hit back-to-back homers in a three-run second off Texas starter Andrew Heaney (2-2). The Yankees won their second straight in a game that Aaron Judge exited in the fourth inning due to right hip discomfort. Webb was charged with two runs on seven hits in 6 2/3 innings; he walked one and struck out seven. Phillies 1, Mariners 0Kody Clemens delivered an RBI single in the second inning for the only run of the game as host Philadelphia defeated Seattle. Velazquez then hit the second pitch he saw from Lugo 404 feet into the seats in left center.

Mr. DeSantis’s whirlwind trip abroad this week was meant to elevate his credentials as a statesman and heavyweight, while taking him away from the hurly-burly of a fledgling presidential campaign that he has not officially begun. But if Mr. DeSantis thought it would give him a reprieve from scrutiny, he was mistaken. But his words have been parsed and compared with those of rivals and previous presidential hopefuls. “There are people who will always be critical, but I don’t worry about that,” said Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, a former Trump administration official who now leads Mr. DeSantis’s super PAC. “He’s showing himself to be a guy who can go toe-to-toe around the world.”

☆ Enjoy Smashing Things to Bits? Make $650,000 Crushing Everyday Objects Online
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( John Keilman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Paul Roth used to fire up his belt sander when he was building something. Now he does it to make something disappear. Mr. Roth, a 34-year-old home-remodeler from Hazelwood, Mo., has TikTok and YouTube channels in which he feeds toys, cellphones, candy and other items into his sander until they vanish against the grit. Viewers grimace but can’t stop watching. When he sanded the face off a Thomas the Tank Engine, one commenter said: “Well, there goes my childhood down the drain.”

☆ Katie Ledecky obliterates short-course 1500m freestyle world record
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

And on Saturday the American obliterated yet another world record – this time in the 1500m short-course freestyle as she completed the race in 15:08.24, 10 seconds faster than anyone has done so before. “I felt good and very pleased with the outcome in both that and the 200m.”Ledecky distanced all her competitors to win and set a new world record. Steve Russell/Toronto Star/Getty ImagesLedecky’s time was so fast that she almost broke the 800m world record in the same event, with a split time of 8:00.58, a second off world-record pace. Capturing the 1500m short-course record marked the American’s first world record in a 25m pool as all her others have come in the long-course or in a 50m pool. “I didn’t have it as a set goal (to break the world record),” Ledecky said, according to FINA.

☆ People are splurging to buy Grimace, Birdie, and Hamburglar toys from McDonald's adult Happy Meal, with some spending $50 for the figurines
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

People are spending big money to snap up limited-edition toys from McDonald's adult Happy Meals. One eBay account is selling some sealed toys for $49.95 each, or $119.95 for a pack of all four. One eBay account is charging $24.95 each for sealed Grimace and Cactus Buddy toys and $49.95 for Hamburglar and Birdie toys, or $119.95 for a pack of all four. Another account selling the toys individually and in four-packs for slightly cheaper has sold 116 lots. The McDonald's and Cactus Plant collaboration has proved incredibly popular.

☆ McDonald's limited-edition adult Happy Meal toys are listed for as much as $300,000 on eBay
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

McDonald's recently-released adult Happy Meal was designed to engender feelings of "nostalgia" among its older customers. Opportunistic resellers are taking advantage of McDonald's limited-time collaboration with streetwear company Cactus Plant Flea Market to try to make a quick buck. Another seller is asking for $25,000 for an unopened Happy Meal toy, and asks that the winning bidder also cover the $6.10 in shipping fees. In New York City, the Cactus Plant Flea Market Box retailed for $12.95. The fast food giant has brought back its collectible Halloween Happy Meal pails for the first time since 2016.

☆ McDonald's is launching Happy Meals for adults, featuring an unnerving set of toys with 2 pairs of eyes
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

From October 3, McDonald's will be selling limited-edition Happy Meals for grown-ups. The boxes are designed by Cactus Plant Flea Market, and merch will also be available. For the Happy Meals currently available, McDonald's charges more for ones that come with hamburgers than those with nuggets. McDonald's x Cactus Plant Flea MarketThe Happy Meals are a collaboration with streetwear brand Cactus Plant Flea Market, which McDonald's called "one of the most important brands in culture." Cactus Plant Flea Market currently appears to only have four products available on its website – a $70 T-shirt, a $75 towel, a $35 water bottle, and a $60 pair of boxers.

☆ Babies smile over carrots and scowl over kale inside the womb
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Aria Bendix | Aria Bendix Is The Breaking Health Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Fetuses in the womb scowled after their mothers ate kale but smiled after they ate carrots, according to a new study of around 100 pregnant women and their fetuses in England. Thirty-five women consumed the equivalent of one medium carrot, and 34 women consumed the equivalent of 100 grams of chopped kale. An image from the FETAP (Fetal Taste Preferences) study showing a grimacing reaction to kale flavor. The grimaces in the ultrasounds "might be just the muscle movements which are reacting to a bitter flavor," Reissland said. In designing the new study, Reissland and her team chose powdered kale and carrots over juices or raw vegetables for a few reasons.

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