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Thursday 13 August 2015
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Active Stocks in the News: Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD), McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE:MCD)

On Thursday, Shares of Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F), gained 0.20% to $14.83.

Ford Motor Company and its Chinese joint ventures sold 77,100 vehicles in China in July, falling 6 percent from a year earlier, the U.S. carmaker said on Friday, according to Reuters.

That puts Ford sales in the world’s largest car market down 0.7 percent for January to July contrast to the same period a year ago, following on a 3 percent decline in June and a 4 percent rise in May. Reuters Reports

Ford did not elaborate on the why sales fell, and a spokesman declined to comment. Reuters added.

Ford Motor Company manufactures and distributes automobiles worldwide. The company operates through two sectors, Automotive and Financial Services. The Automotive sector develops, manufactures, distributes, and services vehicles, parts, and accessories.

Shares of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD), declined -2.31% to $2.11, during its last trading session.

Advanced Micro Devices declared that Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster will present at the Pacific Crest 17th Annual Global Technology Leadership Forum at 10 a.m. MDT on Monday, Aug.10, 2015 in Vail, Colorado.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. operates as a semiconductor company worldwide. The company’s products primarily comprise x86 microprocessors as an accelerated processing unit (APU), chipsets, discrete graphics processing units (GPUs), and semi-custom System-on-Chip (SoC) products.

Finally, McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE:MCD), ended its last trade with -0.45% loss, and closed at $99.35.

McDonald’s Corporation declared its Board of Directors elected Lloyd Dean and John Mulligan as Directors of the company, effective August 3.

Dean, 65, is President and CEO of Dignity Health, where he is responsible for the overall administration of Dignity Health’s hospitals, home health care and medical group foundations. Since becoming CEO at Dignity Health in 2000, Dean has led the organization through noteworthy planned, operational and financial transformations to its current status as a leading health care organization. Preceding to his current role, Dean was Chief Operating Officer at Advocate Health Care.

Dean is on the Board at Wells Fargo & Company and Navigant Consulting, Inc. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a master’s degree in Education from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich.

McDonald’s Corporation operates and franchises McDonald’s restaurants in the United States, Europe, the Asia/Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, Canada, and Latin America. The company’s restaurants offer various food products, soft drinks, coffee, and other beverages.

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