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McDonald's. It's Difficult To Fight Strong Stocks.

Here is McDonalds five day chart at the close on Wednesday. Now here is it's three month chart. Now consider this. In two days the stock is up about twelve dollars. I often talk about Wednesdays being the one day in the week the markets can do reverals. Today the DJIA was up over four hundred points and McDonalds was down 60 cents. It dipped on the opening and came back a bit and then selling pressure came into the stock again on the closing. I personally hate McDonald's food. The internet has tens of Youtube videos saying their fries are poisonous. Yet I get it. But think about this. Whenever a new residential subdivision goes in anywhere in North America there is room for another one of their restaurants to go in. They just pop up and everyone knows what they are. Here now is a snippet I posted in a past McDonald's blog. After a lackluster trading session today McDonald's could drop in the next two days or at least on a Thursday afternoon sell off. Yet nothing m...

U.S. Steel "BIG NEWS"

I talked about U.S. Steel on August 20th. It is a company 122 years old. There were takeover talks back in August with multiple suitors. It was just a question as to when the cards would unfold. Now this news which caused the stock to jump in price. (It's a complicated business to follow with big players all over the world involved).
Is the Blackberry spin out story which I have recently blogged about an animal with the same outlook? That's something I still can't decide. Maybe it's one to watch.

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