Merry Christmas you underpaid, overworked coffee barista boys and girls. Uncle Howard Schultz, your founder and CEO, has found another way to screw Starbucks (SBUX) employees, if he wants to. According to…
Douglas A. McIntyre People who get to the end of 2008 and are still at work can be thankful. The unemployment rate will probably be over 7%. That does not count the people no longer…
There are some additional important analyst calls which were not on the early bird list over an hour ago. Here are some additional upgrades, downgrades, and initiations of new coverage from Wall…
No matter how far down bank stocks go and how hard regulators try to keep short sellers out of financial shares, some of the smart money is willing to gamble that the…
Today 24/7 Wall St.named its annual CEO of the Year James A. Skinner of McDonald’s (MCD). He was picked from a field of ten executives which we profiled over the last ten…
24/7 Wall St. will name its annual CEO of the Year next week. The executive will be picked from a field of ten which we will profile this week The CEOs are…
Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks (SBUX) keeps retreating from his previous forecasts of how the company will perform financially for the last part of this year and into 2009. The SBUX CEO…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to MarketWatch, shares in Rio Tinto (RTP) dropped 40% after BHP Billiton (BHP) dropped its offer for the company. According to Reuters, Citigroup’s (C) assurances that it did not need capital…
Starbucks (SBUX) finally admitted what every man, woman, and child over 13-years-old already knows–no one in his right mind will pay more than $1 for a cup of coffee no matter what…
Douglas A. McIntyre Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) is a stock which we get asked about constantly by our readers. Now that the price is at a certain point, we have finally been able to cover…
Douglas A. McIntyre It has been almost impossible for most stocks to avoid the carnageand mayhem of late. It is interesting just how many widely held stocks have broken under the $10.00 share price level…
According to Reuters, a weakening economy in China and poor US earnings are causing concern that the recession will be deep and long. Reuters writes that Vodafone (VOD) cuts its full-year revenue…
A week or so ago Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks (SBUX), said he thought he was seeing a bottom in his company’s business. It must have been a mirage. Starbucks reported…
Douglas A. McIntyre Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) has just reported earnings of $0.01 EPS (after $0.09 restructuring costs) on $2.5 billion in revenues Thomson Reuters (First Call) had earnings consensus estimates at $0.13 EPS and…
Douglas A. McIntyre Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) is set to report earnings right after the close of trading today. Unfortunately, it isn’t expected to look that pretty. To make matters worse, the report has a…
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