Starbucks Stock News

Near-term headwinds are negatively impacting this top restaurant stock.

Starbucks (SBUX) fell 1.05% in opening trades on Thursday after the coffee giant was fined around 1.36 million yuan ($210K) by Wuxi Market Supervision Administration in the eastern

Some of the world''s biggest roasters and sellers of coffee, including Starbucks, are upping menu prices

The steady surge in prices has left many Americans less able to afford food, gas, rent, child care and other necessities. | AP file There are few signs that inflation will slow significantly anytime soon. WASHINGTON — Inflation soared over the past year at its highest rate in four decades, hammering America’s consumers, wiping out pay raises and reinforcing the Federal Reserve’s decision to begin raising borrowing rates across the economy. The Labor Department said Thursday that consumer prices jumped 7.5% last month compared with 12 months earlier, the steepest year-over-year increase since February 1982. Shortages of supplies and workers, heavy doses of federal aid, ultra-low interest rates and robust consumer spending combined to send inflation accelerating in the past year. When measured from December to January, inflation was 0.6%, the same as the previous month and more than economists had expected. Prices had risen 0.7% from October to November and 0.9% from September to October.

Four stores are joining a nationwide effort, buoyed by successes in Buffalo.

Starbucks has an element of durability that long-term investors look for.

Employers normally have little to lose by purging organizers, even when it''s found to be illegal. This high-profile case could be different.

The fired employees were attempting to unionize and held an interview with WMCA News 5 inside the shop, after business hours, which Starbucks says broke company safety policies.

Employers normally have little to lose by purging organizers, even when its found to be illegal. This high-profile case could be different.

"It''s to silence us and we won''t be silenced," a former Memphis employee says in a Twitter video.

Starbucks, the Seattle-based coffee chain, denies allegations that the Memphis, Tennessee workers were dismissed in retaliation for their unionization drive.

Starbucks on Tuesday fired seven workers looking to unionize their Memphis branch of the company, …

Starbucks has fired seven employees who were leading an effort to unionize a Memphis, Tennessee, store.

The store joins a rapidly growing movement.

A whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on Starbucks . Looking at options history for Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX ) we detected 20 strange trades. If we consider the specifics of each trade, it is accurate to state that 45% of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 55% with bearish. From the overall spotted trades, 2 are puts, for a total amount of $131,752 and 18, calls, for a total amount of $1,067,450. What''s The Price Target? Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $90.0 to $105.0 for Starbucks over the last 3 months. Volume & Open Interest Development In terms of liquidity and interest, the mean open interest … Full story available on Benzinga.com