“Sell in May and go away" turned out to be not such good advice this year, but we're approaching what historically has been stocks' best six-month cycle. Here are five market sectors worth examining.

“I’m just a banker doing God’s work.”-- Lloyd Blankfein CEO of Goldman Sachs (GS) “Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.”-- Gene Simmons KISS bassist ***“Numerous faces and vehicle number plates are not made sufficiently unrecognizable from the point of view of data protection especially where the persons concerned are shown in sensitive locations e.g. outside hospitals prisons or schools.”-- Hanspeter Thuer Switzerland’s federal data protection commissioner on trying to force Google (GOOG) to make changes to its Street View feature“Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to it's an absolute prerequisite.” -- ...

McDonald's had a sales slide in the U.S. in October, but there's still plenty of potential.

The United States long an exporter of popular culture may be exporting obesity to Europe Asia and Africa thanks to strong fast-food sales led by McDonald’s (MCD).The World Health Organization says about one billion people worldwide are now obese. Since 1980 the number of obese Europeans has tripled. By some estimates about half the population of the United Kingdom is overweight or obese.“The medical community is dumbfounded by the problem ” Dr. Bernadine Healy wrote recently in US News & World Report. “Across the developing world too obesity has become a major affliction as people move out of poverty.”Traditionally ...

Just when you think everyone is giving up on life’s little splurges, the latte wars are heating up, as McDonald's results indicate.

Carl’s Jr. premium-quality burgers offer guests a better value than the competition

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