NEW YORK (Standard&Poor's) Sept. 9, 2014--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services believes that McDonald?s Corp.'s decreased global comparable-store sales will likely lead to lower profits than we previously anticipated for the third quarter. A 14.5% decline in Asia/Pacific, Middle East, and Africa highlighted the sales decline, which followed the company's issues with a supplier in China. Furthermore, the 2.8% comparable-store sales decline in the U.S. was also moderately weaker than expected as well and in our view likely indicates that the company lost market share in the month. Nonetheless, we expect the company to maintain credit ratios appropriate for the current rating, and we also believe sales performance will rebound in the coming months. It is likely that leverage
