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McDonald's Corp. said Wednesday that a key revenue figure climbed 6.7 percent in January as U.S. customers spent more on breakfast items, beverages and its new Chicken McBites.

Standard & Poor’s Corp. on Friday stripped France of its sterling credit rating as several other euro zone countries, including Italy, were expected to be downgraded more severely.

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McDonald's Corp.'s CEO received a pay package worth nearly $9.7 million during fiscal 2010 - 45 percent less than the year before, based on an Associated Press analysis of a recent regulatory filing.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has sold 560,000 more shares of credit ratings agency Moody's Corp., but Warren Buffett's company continues to control about 12 percent of Moody's stock.

Eric Kolchinsky, the former Moody's Corp. analyst who criticized the company after allegedly being demoted and then suspended for complaining internally about its practices, sued the firm, its credit-ratings unit and chief executive officer for defamation.

Kolchinsky claims that Moody's was falsifying ratings information and committing securities fraud in the process.

Burger King Holdings Inc will sell Starbucks Corp's Seattle's Best Coffee at its U.S. restaurants by autumn, as it revamps its morning menu and responds to the successful launch of McCafe coffee by McDonald's Corp.

McDonald's Corp posted an expectations-topping 2.6 percent increase in January sales at established restaurants, as overseas results overshadowed a sluggish performance in the United States.

McDonald's Corp. reported better than expected fourth quarter 2009 results, underscoring the continued resilience of the world's largest restaurant chain amidst the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

Denny's Corp. said its third-quarter profit slipped as consumers continued to eat at home more often amid the recession.