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The stock market sold off as oil prices surged on Trump's Iran threats. Microsoft, Meta and Fortinet were key earnings movers late.
Starbucks is widely believed to be in turnaround mode, but margins, growth and earnings expectations have retreated in the two years since Brian Niccol took over. Read more below in today’s Markets A.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the coffee shop giant, agreeing that its former CEO did not make “flagrantly false” statements about its sales results.
Verizon is aiming to attract customers by offering simpler plans, dropping activation and upgrade fees and unveiling a new loyalty program offering discounts and perks. The U.S. company is aggressively competing with AT&T and T-Mobile in the saturated U.S. telecoms market, where network providers have extended device subsidies, added plan discounts and increased network infrastructure spending. Verizon said its new program will offer customers 3% back on bills from July that can be used toward new phones or at consumer brands like Sephora, Hilton, Marriott and Starbucks.
Starbucks shares fell 2% Tuesday after a promotion misfire and threatened boycotts in South Korea, one of the chain’s biggest markets. The company’s South Korean licensee recently ran a “Tank Day” marketing campaign, offering discounts on the company’s “Tank” tumbler series. The promotion’s last week coincided with the anniversary of a 1980 massacre in South Korea, when the country’s military deployed soldiers in tanks to crush a demonstration, killing protesters.
Starbucks is laying off 300 U.S. workers and closing several regional corporate offices in the latest move by Chief Executive Brian Niccol to turn the coffee chain around. Starbucks said the 300 U.S. corporate roles are based in Seattle along with remote positions scattered around the country. The company said it is closing regional corporate offices in Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas and Burbank, Calif. It will maintain North American regional offices in New York, Toronto and Coral Gables, Fla., along with its Seattle headquarters and a new Nashville, Tenn., corporate hub.
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