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YUM! BRANDS INC., $70.28, New York symbol YUM, fell 14% this week after reporting lower-than-expected quarterly results. The company also cut its full-year forecast due to slow sales in China following last year’s food-safety problems at its KFC outlets. In the three months ended September 5, 2015, Yum earned $421 million, up 4.2% from $404 million a year earlier. Per-share profits gained 6.7%, to $0.95 from $0.89, on fewer shares outstanding. Without unusual items, including a writedown of its Mexican real estate holdings, Yum earned $1.00 a share in the latest quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.07....
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Bank of Nova Scotia has considerable exposure to Latin America, where lower prices for commodities like metals and oil have slowed growth. However, the bank’s focus on lending to the region’s growing middle class—including credit cards, car loans, insurance and mortgages—has let it sidestep most of the slowdown and keep reporting rising profits from the area. BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA $60.29 (Toronto symbol BNS; Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $72.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.6%, www.scotiabank.com) is the third-largest of Canada’s five big banks, with $863.1 billion of assets. In its fiscal 2015 third quarter, which ended July 31, 2015, the bank earned $1.85 billion, up 2.8% from $1.80 billion a year earlier. Earnings per share rose 3.6%, to $1.45 from $1.40, on fewer shares outstanding....
SUN LIFE FINANCIAL $44.38 (Toronto symbol SLF; Shares outstanding: 610.6 million; Market cap: $27.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.4%; www.sunlife.ca) continues to expand in the U.S. At the same time, it’s cutting its risk by focusing on highly profitable niche markets with low capital reserve requirements. In June 2015, the company bought U.S. asset manager Prime Advisors for an undisclosed amount. Prime has about $13 billion under management, mainly bond portfolios for U.S. insurance firms. In September 2015, Sun Life paid $560 million for Bentall Kennedy Group, which manages $27 billion in real estate for over 550 institutional clients across the U.S. and Canada....