Barry Hyman Versus Quotations

I believe that the future of McDonald's is going to be their international growth. Let's not forget what President Bush is trying to do in Russia. Russia eventually is going to have to be our friend versus all this nonsense terrorism that's going on in the world, ... So, does the overseas market concern me? It doesn't because they are looking to marginalize that growth of 1-to-2 percent and diversify at the same time. I think the bad things are behind it and I like the stock.

I think this last quarter proves out that their business model works versus Gateway, versus Compaq, versus other PC box makers,

You continue to have investors weighing strong earnings -- in this case Yahoo! and Intel -- versus the fear of inflation again.