They have spent more time trying to make it okay for you to go to McDonald's with your friends because they ran into a branding problem where it kind of wasn't socially acceptable for older kids.

We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?

This is definitely very bad news. Until now, we had given the company's management the benefit of the doubt with respect to certain franchise-acquisition activities. We believe that the SEC's decision indicates that, for some reason, cooperation between the company and the agency in the preceding informal investigation broke down, leading the commission to seek the greater legal powers of a formal investigation.

Much of Avon's premium valuation is built on the market's expectation that the firm will continue to tick off positive financial results with the precision of a fine watch. While we think Avon has a stable business model, it's not immune to business hiccups.

They are going to keep up quite a bit of momentum in 2006.

It makes sense for McDonald's to focus their top management efforts on the Golden Arches.