These are this morning’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Raised to Outperform at Bernstein and target raised from $125 to $160.…
Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) does not hand out information about the demographics of its customers, but they are not likely to be people who are poor, indigent, or even lower middle class. The coffee…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: The Wall St. insider trading probe lead to another 14 arrests. Reuters: Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) lost $19 billion and asked Treasury for money. Reuters: GM is readying its plans for Opel…
Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) posted good earnings . Revenue for the quarter ending September 28, 2009 was $2.4 billion compared to $2.5 billion in the same quarter. For the period, EPS was $.20 compared to $.01 last…
Douglas A. McIntyre Two coffee companies which sell their products online and through retailers are merging. They should be able to create a formidable competitor for Starbuck’s retail business outside its own stores. Diedrich (NASDAQ:DDRX) will be bought…
Reuters: The value of the yuan could cause a trade war between the US and China. Reuters: Executive pensions rose despite drops in stock prices. Reuters: Lloyds will make a large stock…
Caribou Coffee (NASDAQ: CBOU) is a retail and commercial coffee vendor. Its stock has soared more than 500% this year, well outperforming its peer group. 24/7 Wall St. had an opportunity to interview the…
Douglas A. McIntyre There are a number of ways to rank brand values. One of the most important is the level at which a brand contributes to the market value of a public company. 24/7…
McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) was supposed to crush Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) in the premium coffee business when the world’s largest restaurant chain introduced a line of premium java more than a year ago. It turns out that…
The short interest in Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) was steady in the period that ended on September 30 at 16 million shares.The bet being made against RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) rose 13% to 13% to 19.2 million.…
Reuters: GM says most of its cost cutting is done and its sales chief left. Reuters: Spot gold hit a record above $1,050. Reuters: The Senate healthcare bill weighs in at $829…
Starbucks (SBUX) has been talking about its foray into the instant coffee business for some time. The product “VIA Ready-Brew” will actually launch in the US and Canada today. According to the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: China may hold the key to a sanctions program against Iran. Reuters: The head of the AIG (AIG) unit that caused most of the firm’s losses is back in US. Reuters: The…
These are this Friday morning’s top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls from Wall Street affecting shares: Allstate (ALL) Raised to Buy at Argus. American Tower Corp. (AMT) Started as Outperform…
Several consulting firms post annual figures for the world’s most valuable brands. The two best known are probably the Interbrand and BrandZ surveys. They are notably different, up until now at least.…
