According to Reuters, American Blind & Wallpaper Factory Inc has dropped its long-running suit against Google (GOOG) for running ads for competitors when search results for a company appear.Reuters writes that Starbucks…
Starbucks (SBUX) is not doing very well selling convincing investors that coffee sales in its stores are rising at an acceptable rate. The company’s stock is down 22% this year.So, the coffee…
Earlier in the week, Dunkin’ Donuts made a big deal about its new plan to team up with Procter & Gamble (PG) to sell its coffee at retail outlets like Wal-Mart (WMT)…
According to Reuters, profits at UBS rose to $4.7 billion in Q2, but the bank said the difficult markets could hurt second half results.Reuters writes that Wal-Mart’s (WMT) Japanese unit, Seiyu Ltd,…
Starbucks (SBUX) must feel like someone is walking over its grave. McDonald’s (MCD) same-store sales rose 6.5% in July. The company said the the improvement in the US was due to the…
Starbucks (SBUX) turned in an OK performance and its stock moved only a little over 2% up in pre-market trading.Revenue rose from $1.66 billion in the quarter a year ago to $2.01…
Douglas A. McIntyre Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ:SBUX) has shown its earnings, and the results came in at net $0.21 EPS on revenues of $2.4 Billion. First Call estimates were $0.21 EPS and almost $2.4 Billion in…
Douglas A. McIntyre Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ:SBUX) has seen its stock under pressure since the end of 2006. Tonight it reports earnings, and First Call estimates are $0.21 EPS and almost $2.4 Billion in revenues. The…
McDonald’s (MCD) is pushing to open all of its store at 5 AM on the premise that people are getting up earlier and earlier to get to work or care for children.…
Starbucks (SBUX) has moved up 8% in the last week, coming off 52-week lows. Earnings are scheduled for August 1.According to Reuters, the company will delay opening stores in India. "India is…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, the board of Dow Jones (DJ) has approved a $5 billion offer from News Corp (NWS).Reuters writes that British Imperial Tobacco has agreed to buy rival firm Altadis for…
Starbucks (SBUX) has decided to move some of its most senior people around. It is not something that the military likes to do in wartime. And, it is rarely done on ships…
Douglas A. McIntyre The head of McDonald’s (MCD) says that its business in the US has "huge potential" It is a bit hard to believe given that there is a McDonald’s on every corner in…
With oil hanging around $70, and gas likely to move above $3 for all of the summer, it bears looking at who gets hurt:Airlines: It looked like they might get something of…
This morning Starbucks shares are traded higher, thanks to it being upgraded at Thomas Weisel Partners to Overweight from Market-Weight with a $34.00 target. The note points to the recent stock price…
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