Amazon Continues to Fall
Amazon.com shares plunged nearly 10% Friday after reporting earnings Thursday night and offering less than optimistic guidance for the current quarter. Shares continued their slide Monday morning.
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courtesy of American AirlinesInvestors like the airlines. First-quarter results, for the most part, were strong, and the stocks are mostly higher for the year. All are up quite a bit from lows seen in…
Starbucks Will Have to Raise Prices
courtesy of Starbucks Corp.Coffee prices started spiking in late January, from less than $1.20 a pound to near $2.15 a pound today. Milk and sugar prices are also higher, and eventually this confluence will…
UPS Joins Others Down in the Dumps
UPS reported first-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Thursday, and no surprise, winter weather was its theme of the day. And no surprise either that shares slipped after the opening bell.
Yum Fortunes Ride With China
courtesy of KFCYum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) reported first quarter 2014 results after markets closed on Monday. The fast-food restaurant operator posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.87 and revenues of $2.72…
McDonald’s Earnings Disaster
McDonald's reported disappointing first-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Tuesday morning. The company said it is is "focused on stabilizing key priority markets." Shares were up in the premarket.
McDonald’s to Dress Up Some Chinese Restaurants
McDonald's stores in China are mostly company operated, and it plans to overhaul a number of its stores there in an effort to attract more customers as China's economy continues to slow down.
Cowen Says Buy These Top Airline Stocks Before Earnings
The analysts at Jefferies point out that corporate travel was up in March, and that could bode well for the top companies and the economy. Here are some of the airlines stocks rated Outperform…
Amazon Workers Strike in Germany
Workers at two of Amazon's logistics centers began a one-day strike Thursday morning that could see more than 1,000 employees on the picket lines.
Southwest Profit Sharing Surges, Union Talks Continue
Southwest Airlines trumpeted its record $228 million contribution to its profit sharing plan. The payment will be an 88% increase over last year's contribution, as well as the 40th consecutive payment.
Zoes Kitchen IPO Surges
ZoesKitchen.comFast-casual restaurant chain Zoës Kitchen Inc. (NYSE: ZOES) sold 5.83 million shares Friday morning at an initial public offering (IPO) price of $15 a share, the top of its expected range of $13 to…
Why Icahn Bested eBay
Carl Icahn will withdraw both his proposal that eBay spin off its PayPal business and his two nominations for candidates for the company's board in exchange for the appointment of an independent director.
La Quinta IPO Stalls After Pricing Below Range
Hotel chain La Quinta Holdings issued 38.25 million shares at $17 a share in its initial public offering Wednesday morning. The IPO price was below the expected range of $18 to $21 a share.
High-Frequency Trading Probe Spooks E*Trade Investors
Criticism of high-frequency trading seems to have spooked investors in online brokers E*Trade and TD Ameritrade. Shares both of them are dropping for the second day in a row.
Should FedEx Investors Fret Over Expanded Lawsuit?
Monday the state of New York joined a federal lawsuit against FedEx alleging that it illegally delivered 140 tons of contraband cigarettes in defiance of a 2006 agreement to cease the practice.