This was a long and crazy week for stock traders, but the Bond weasels got Monday off and only had a four-day work week. Thursday was the mystery tank day when the…
McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) is on a mission. The company has just raised guidance yet again with projections of $0.83 EPS versus $0.77 estimates. This does not include gains from the sale of Boston…
Douglas A. McIntyre It has not come to the US. But, bet your bottom dollar, it will. McDonald’s (MCD) is offering free WiFi in its 1,200 stores in the UK. Starbucks (SBUX) offers T-Mobile WiFi…
Crain’s Chicago Business has gotten its hands on the game plan for McDonald’s (MCD) to conquer the premium coffee world. As the business magazine put it: "In one of its biggest strategic…
According to Reuters, most mutual fund companies side with management on proxy issues. The Wall Street Journal writes that Ebay (EBAY) is taking a $1.4 billion charge for Skype. The Wall Street…
Coca-Cola (KO) and Pepsi (PEP) keep making new highs. Yesterday, Coke hit $57.33, a few pennies from its 52-week peak. At $72.62, the same is true of Pepsi (PEP). So far this…
After watching its stock fall for most of the last year, Starbucks (SBUX) watched Bank of America add insult to injury. It downgraded the stock from neutral to sell. The reason was…
ACLI cut to Hold at Cantor Fitzgerald.ARRS cut to Mkt Perform at FBR.BKR cut to Neutral at Oppenheimer.BRCM cut to Mkt Perform at FBR. BZH started as Sell at UBS.CAKE started as…
It is not a good sign. Starbucks (SBUX) will give away 50 million downloads as part of its new service with Apple (AAPL). The venture allows iTunes customers to go online for…
McDonald’s was in pretty bad shape in late 2003, as a recent AP article points out. The stock is up from $12 then to $55 today. The AP attributes the improvement to…
Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks (SBUX) defended his company’s growth plans in an interview with The New York Times. His two points for investors in the company are that Starbucks has…
McDonald’s (MCD) used to be the exclusive fast food supplier in Wal-Mart (WMT) stores. Subway is now taking over a number of those spots. According to The Wall Street Journal, Subway is…
According to Reuters, Intel (INTC) received antitrust charges from a branch of the South Korean government. Reuters writes that Campbell (CPB) is seeking over $1 billion for its Godiva chocolate business. Reuters…
Of course, Starbucks (SBUX) does not have a dividend. But, they might want to revisit that. Starbucks’s is no longer a growth stock, at least not in the classic sense. Its shares…
According to Bloomberg rising sales of McDonald’s (MCD) coffee prompted Marc Greenberg, a Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. analyst in New York, in June to reduce his Starbucks stock-target price by 14 percent…
