Eight O’Clock Coffee 100% Colombian at $6.28 per pound ranked number one in Consumer Reports’ tests of 19 ground coffees, besting Folgers, Maxwell House, and Starbucks— America’s best-selling ground coffees. The independent…
Continuing jobless claims rose by 159,000 in the week ended Jan. 17 to a seasonally adjusted 4.78 million, the most since the government’s records began in 1967. The number of unemployed people…
According to Reuters, Nasdaq will turn to Asia for much of its future growth Reuters reports that the new bank bailout could cost as much as $2 trillion. Reuters writes that the…
Starbucks (SBUX) posted bad earnings for last quarter. Over the last 2 years Starbucks expanded extensively, refusing to recognize that there was a limit to the number of people who would pay…
Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) has posted disappointing earnings. The coffee giant reported $0.15 non-GAAP EPS and $2.62 billion in revenue. Thomson Reuters (First Call) had estimates were $0.17 EPS and $2.69 billion…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Samsung had its first ever quarterly loss. Reuters reports that Pfizer (PFE) is in takeover talks with Wyeth (WYE), a deal that would be worth $60 billion. Reuters reports…
Most people who are in business put making a profit above maintaining a good image. They would like their customers to think well of them because it drives sales. But, being a…
According to Reuters, authorities do not think Madoff could have acted alone. Reuters show that the US is sinking deeper into recession. Reuters reports that the SEC defended it response to the…
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…
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