date:Dec 10, 2013
es at restaurants open at least 13 months fell 0.8 percent, versus the 0.3 percent gain expected, on average, by 14 analysts polled by Consensus Metrix.
McDonald's U.S. trends imply a rare period of share losses, RBC Capital Markets analyst David Palmer said in a client note.
Wall Street initially expected the chain's fortunes to turn this past spring because its results would be compared with weak monthly numbers starting in the spring of 2012.
But McDonald's executives recently signaled tha