The world’s largest coffee store chain, Starbucks Inc. (NASDAQ: SBUX) will offer customers a $10 store gift card for $5 through daily-deal company Living Social, a competitor to Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN).…
The world’s largest restaurant chain, McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) has confirmed that it is testing mobile payments at 30 of its stores in France. McDonald’s has about 30,000 stores all around the…
Shares of the maker of the ubiquitous Redbox video rental machines, Coinstar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSTR), have gotten a nice jolt today from a story in the New York Post that the company…
The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning on a report from Europe that German chancellor Angela Merkel now backs bond buying by the European Central Bank.Even a larger-than-expected drop…
The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning as the Bank of England left interest rates alone (our coverage here) and the European Central Bank (ECB) did the same (our…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Thursday morning. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) cut to Neutral at Baird…
Shares of Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) have tumbled about 12% in premarket trading. The social media giant said late Thursday that its second-quarter revenue rose 32% to $1.2 billion, but the company…
Trey Thoelcke Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall St.research calls this Friday morning. Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) raised to Overweight at Piper Jaffray. Caterpillar Inc.…
U.S. stocks are poised to open higher as investors await the first reading on second-quarter U.S. GDP, and after encouraging remarks from Europe’s central bank about supporting the euro. Economists predict the…
Trey Thoelcke Facebook Inc.’s (NASDAQ: FB) stock is hammered by earnings letdown. (Reuters) Samsung Electronic Co.’s earnings reach $5.9 billion mostly on smartphone sales. (Reuters) Barclays PLC’s (NYSE: BCS) profits rise sharply. (Reuters) The…
We have many stocks on the move in the after-hours session. Today was the largest day for S&P earnings this earnings season. Some of these volume spikes are massive. Acme Packet, Inc.…
Shares of Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) fell sharply after hours after reporting third-quarter earnings that missed analyst expectations. Shares are down 9.36% to $47.50 in the first 20 minutes of after-hours trading. The stock…
247sam The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning following European Central Bank president Mario Draghi’s promise to “do whatever it takes to preserve the euro” (our coverage here). What he…
As of late last week we had many potentially imminent buyouts that could have hit the market. When we were just finishing the report draft on Friday is when the Amylin Pharmaceuticals,…
In what might seem to be an anomaly, retail stocks are getting dumped on today following the US Supreme Court’s ruling upholding Obamacare. An retail group, the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA),…
