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McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) announced a major menu change Thursday regarding a staple MickyD's item: the Quarter Pounder. The fast food chain has announced it will make the Quarter Pounder with fresh beef in most stores by mid-2018. Fresh Start With Fresh Beef? The company initially...

Benzinga has featured a look at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. That includes how one fast-food giant is taking on the competition and how traders can play a potential failed merger. The outlooks for rail stocks, a struggling retailer and a cellphone maker left for dead are also...

Can McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) compete with Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) in coffee? McDonald's believes an area where it can grow revenues is in its McCafe segment, and it's rolling out new products to test this theory. The fast food giant is testing several...

Analysts at Argus downgraded Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) to Hold from Buy under the assumption that the coffee chain's growth has slowed. The analysts highlighted Starbucks' fiscal first quarter earnings report, which showed just a 3 percent global comps growth while U.S. comps...

President Donald Trump's controversial Executive Order to temporarily ban citizens of seven mostly Muslim nations is a development investors should be following. Support Or Boycott Starbucks Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX)'s outgoing CEO Howard Schultz said in a blog post that he is deeply...

Shares of Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) were trading lower by around 4 percent Friday morning after the company's

Three leading transportation companies are due to report earnings this week. Expectations for the two rail giants and a big airline are very different. The ongoing Trump rally and anticipation of infrastructure spending marked the quarter. The fourth-quarter earnings reporting season is underway...

McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the world's most valuable restaurant company with a valuation just shy of $100 billion. However, according to Mark Kalinowski of Nomura, McDonald's will eventually be dropped to second place. The victor? Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX). In...

Charging $10 for a cup of coffee seems like a ludicrous idea, but this is exactly what Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) wants to do. According to Gadfly's Shelly Banjo, Starbucks isn't looking to overhaul its entire business and get rid of its tried and tested business model. Rather, the coffee...

Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) hosted on Wednesday its Investor Day presentation, which prompted Peter Saleh of BTIG Research to reiterate a Buy rating and $64 price target. According to Saleh, the coffee chain remains one of the "most compelling and forward-thinking concepts," given its...

$10 for a cup of coffee? That's one part of Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX)'s plan to jolt the company's brand. According to Reuters, Starbucks' co-founder Howard Schultz will step down as CEO and focus on building 1,000 new "Reserve" brand stores and up to 30 large Reserve Roastery and...

This weekend's Barron's includes 10 top stock picks for 2017. The prospects for a broadcaster to the Hispanic market, a coal miner emerging from bankruptcy and a telecom giant's new service are also examined. Another featured post predicts retail winners and losers from a corporate tax cut. "Our...

After hitting a new 52-week low of $50.84 on Friday, shares of Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) gained more than 3 percent as investors fully digested the company's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report. In a research report on Friday, Jason West of Credit Suisse reaffirmed a Neutral rating on...

Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) said on Monday it will begin heavily targeting the Asian market with a full line of tea flavors. Starbucks noted that the tea market is quite large at $125 billion, and tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world after plain water. The company will...

Three big banks are among companies kicking off the new earnings season this week. Consensus forecasts from Wall Street analysts call for bottom-line declines from all three of them. However, one is expected to offer some growth in revenue, relative to the year-ago period. The second-quarter...