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U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday as investors found a decline in consumer confidence as reason enough to keep stocks from moving higher. The S&P 500 retreated from its record all time high set yesterday but took a run above the 1,850 level in the late morning. The all time high for the index is...

Coffee giant Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) has never been shy about keeping a spare finger on the public's pulse. The company's been quick to capitalize on the current government shutdown. President CEO Howard Schultz announced that, for part of this week, when a Starbucks customer buys...

Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX), which Jim Cramer on Tuesday recommended buying on weakness, is scheduled to report its fiscal fourth-quarter 2012 results Thursday, November 1, after the closing bell. Among other things, investors will be looking to see whether Starbucks "had turned the corner" with its...

Monday's acquisition announcement of Peet's Coffee & Tea (NASDAQ: PEET) for $73.50 per share by privately-held German firm Joh. A. Benckiser presents yet another development in what Piper Jaffray calls the "Year of the Restaurant." Piper Jaffray's report, published following the Peet's news...

This weekend in Barron's online: the booming vegetable and fruit juice market, as well as a return to the gold standard, the prospects for Calpine, Canon and John Bean Technologies, and more. Cover Story "Drink Up!" by Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal. The consumption of super-premium vegetable juices in...