Word: analysts
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...Starbucks's stock, which has fallen more than 50% in the past two years, rallied in early-morning trading. Investors liked the announcement, which replaced an earlier, less-aggressive plan to shutter just 100 shops. "The first step is admitting you have a problem," John Glass, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, wrote in a research note. He estimated that closing the 600 stores could boost U.S. operating margins by at least 1 percentage point...
...better fall in line with demand is a step in the right direction, but hardly a cure-all. Morgan Stanley's Glass points to "deteriorating underlying trends," such as the slowing economy and stepped-up coffee competition from the likes of Dunkin Donuts and McDonald's. Steven Kron, an analyst at Goldman Sachs, pointed out in a research note that while short-term investors may be enthusiastic about store closings, long-term investors still need to know more about how broader business trends play out. He has made no change to 12-month price target. Starbucks still...
...well-aimed Hellfire missile, will get you a dead terrorist leader. Close watchers of the al-Qaeda terror network find such reports inherently unreliable. "It's trying to make a diagnosis from thousands of miles away with only fragments of the medical chart," says Paul Pillar, former top analyst and deputy director of the CIA's counterterrorism center, who now teaches at Georgetown University. Says Frances Fragos Townsend, who stepped down last November as chief of President George W. Bush's Homeland Security Council, "I've read all the same conflicting reports [on bin Laden's health] that people have...
...with a need to assure Florida's large number of independent voters that he and McCain are on the same page, Crist's stances are being scrutinized almost as closely as the Republican nominee's. "People now see a causal linkage [to McCain] in everything he says," notes political analyst Susan MacManus of the University of South Florida in Tampa...
...Salter, deputy chairman of Walpole, the British luxury brands trade association that collaborated on the study. Chi-chi brands also worry the web is more hoi polloi than haute couture. "Some feel they might be perceived as an Amazon or an Ebay," says Victoria Bracewell-Lewis, a Forrester senior analyst. "But the opposite is true. A well-run digital channel can only enhance their image...