We’ve started seeing some of the recent emptier pockets of Joe Q. Consumer, and after a warning yesterday out of McCormick & Schmicks’s we wanted to see how some of the NASDAQ…
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…
According to Reuters, the UAW set a strike deadline for today because it cannot reach a job security agreeement with GM (GM). Reuters writes that Starbucks (SBUX) will give away 50 million…
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…
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…
According to Reuters, Sony (SNE) will begin to launch new versions of it Blu-ray recorders in it battle against the HD DVD format. Reuters writes that Yahoo! (YHOO) has won exclusive rights…
Every man, woman, and child in most developed countries must be eating at McDonald’s (MCD). August same-store sales rose 8.1% in August. The company showed impressive strength in the US, Asia/Pacific, the…
The chairman of Starbucks (SBUX) says that there will be a shortage of the beans for very high end coffee. Fear not. SBUX has already locked up supply due to it huge…
Caribou Coffee Company (NASDAQ:CBOU) is in a bit of a strange spot. It is in the formerly-hot lounge and coffee destination. They also have the ‘sit and chill’ or ‘work on the…
Douglas A. McIntyre In 2003, you could pick up shares of Krispy Kreme (KKD) for $49. This morning, the are down 19% to $5.10 on bad earnings. Revenues for the second quarter of fiscal 2008…
According to Reuters, Countrywide (CFC) will eliminate 900 jobs. Reuters writes that Apple (AAPL) is looking for higher sales and Europe launch of the iPhone as part of the reason it cut…
Tonight, Jim Cramer compared Peet’s Coffee & Tea Inc. (NASDAQ:PEET) to Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) as an obituary pick on CNBC’s MAD MONEY. It wasn’t praise or criticism, just reviewing a company after the…
Douglas A. McIntyre During WW II, the German army found out just how hard it is to invade Russia. Napoleon discovered the same thing 150 years earlier. Now, Starbucks (SBUX) want to come to Russia,…
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