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McDonald's is adding six new crafted beverages to its menu today and a new position to make sure it's made right. The beverage

specialists will be focused on making the new more complex drinks. It includes three refreshers.

Customers can choose for mango pineapple flavor with strawberry boba, blackberry passion fruit with

freeze-dried dragon fruit fruit and a strawberry watermelon option.

In addition, three crafted sodas are also being added to the menu.

The crafted soda is a fountain drink enhanced with flavored syrups and cold foam.

Spriteberry blast will have blue raspberry syrup.

The orange dream resembles a cream sickle. And the dirty Dr. Pepper is a

classic Dr. Pepper with vanilla flavor, each top with cold foam. The new lineup will be closely

watched by rivals such as Starbucks, Taco Bell, Dutch Bros, and Duncan looking to protect their market

share. The updated drink menu reflects

McDonald's push into higher margin customizable drinks that can attract younger customers and create more

traffic beyond lunch and dinner. AMD is up 18% in early trading after reporting first quarter

results and guidance that topped Wall

Street's forecast. Shares have gained more than 60% in the past month and more than 250% in the

past year amid investor enthusiasm about AI spending. For the period ended March 28th, AMD said it earned and adjusted $1.37

cents per share as revenue rose 38% year over year to $10.25 billion. Analysts had expected the

company to earn $1.28 cents on revenues of $9.89 billion for the entire quarter.

AMD said it expects second quarter revenue to be between $10.9 and $11.5 billion,

which is above the $10.5 billion consensus.

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