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Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) posted strong fourth-quarter results Thursday, reporting earnings per share of 62 cents per share, beating a 60-cent estimate. Starbucks also topped revenue estimates, raking in $6.3 billion against an expected $6.27 billion. The Analysts Bank of America Merrill...

In an effort to further diversify from the soda industry, The Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) has announced new plans to keep up ina highly competitive market. Following the news of Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX)’s licensing deal with Nestle, as well as the merged Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. (NYSE:...

Piper Jaffray analysts consider this move "in retrospect something we should have done previously." The valuation deliberately occurs at a time in which Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) has demonstrated a suggested lack of comp performance. The Analyst Piper Jaffray analysts led by...

Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) announced Monday a “global coffee alliance” with Nestlé (OTC: NSRGY) to leverage the latter’s worldwide scale. Under the new partnership, Nestlé will sell Starbucks-packaged coffee and Teavana tea in regional markets and offer the...

Liliane Bettencourt, the world's richest woman and heiress to the conglomerate giant L'Oreal SA (ADR) (OTC: LRLCY), passed away Thursday at the age of 94. This raises the question of what will come next for the France-based L'Oreal; Bettencourt's family owns a 33 percent stake in L'Oreal while...

United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE: UAL) has stepped in and snatched up former American Airlines Group Inc (NASDAQ: AAL) president Scott Kirby. Luring talent from the workforce of competitors is known as “poaching,” and it’s certainly nothing new on Wall Street, especially...

Wayne Farms Inc (NASDAQ: WNFM), the sixth largest producer and processor of broiler chickens, plans to raise over $300 million in its IPO this Thursday. The company is being spun off from parent Continental Grain. Wayne Farms expects to offer over 12.8 million shares between $18 and $21 per share...

On Tuesday, the Iraqi government held its first session with its new parliament including representation from Sunnis and Kurds. However, both groups walked out of the meeting after the Shi’ite government did not announce Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s replacement. Meanwhile,...

U.S. stocks were higher as the back-end of 2014 kicked off. The Dow came within less than two points of reaching the 17,000 mark as investors and traders found plenty of positives in a better-than-expected June auto sales and an expansion in U.S. manufacturing. The S&P 500 also traded at...

Resturants are hard work, for owners, managers and staff. And they can be a risky business, with a failure rate of about 60 percent within the first three years. But there are also eating establishments whose popularity have turned them into major companies and household names, both in the U.S...

Last week, the industry experts on cocoa gathered in London and came to a conclusion that the growing demand for cocoa will be unsustainable by 2020. Independent statements by chocolate giants such as Hershey (NYSE: HSY) and Mars also agree that by 2020, the “situation will be unsustainable.”...

Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but conventional wisdom says that insiders really only buy shares of a company for one reason -- they believe the stock price will rise and they want to profit from it. Pullbacks and sell-offs provide a perfect opportunity for investors who have...