Mcdonalds Corp

US growth looks fitful after retailer, restaurant and home sales falter

Worryingly, there are signs that free-spending US consumers, who helped prop up the economy for much of the past year, are beginning to tighten their belts. Retail sales grew a paltry 0.4 percent in June, showed US Commerce Department figures.

Food safety scare prompts China to probe 581 firms, restaurants

Yum Brands Inc, the owner of KFC and Pizza Hut, severed ties with OSI, and McDonald's said it would move supply from the Shanghai facility to OSI's new plant in the eastern central province of Henan.