Starbucks July sales lag forecasts (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp. SBUX.O on Wednesday posted 16 percent quarterly profit growth but showed its weakest monthly same-store sales rise in four-and-a-half years, missing Wall Street estimates and sending shares down 9 percent....more...Back-to-School Stocks: BW's Honor Roll (RedNova)
School's out for summer, as Alice Cooper once sang, but the golf-loving metalmeister got the "out forever" part wrong. In fact, the U.S. Education Dept. projects pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade enrollment to increase to 16.5 million in 2006, up 17% from a decade ago....more... Sweating it out (The Herald-Sun)
If July was the proverbial frying pan, August is arriving as the roaring fire. The forecasts for today and Wednesday call for highs of at least 100 degrees -- something that just-ended July, for all its swelter, didn't accomplish. The normal high is 89....more... 9/11 firefighters lost lung capacity (Seattle Times)
Firefighters who inhaled toxic dust after the collapse of the World Trade Center twin towers in 2001 suffered a sudden loss of lung capacity 12 times......more... S.B. County sees sixth heat-related death (Daily Bulletin)
The San Bernardino County Coroner's Department reported its fifth and sixth heat-related deaths on Thursday as a record-breaking heat wave cooled and a late-afternoon rain fell....more... Thursday, July 27 (CNN.com)
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Despite meeting for several hours Wednesday regarding a Tuesday incident in which four members of a United Nations observer mission in Lebanon were killed, members of the U.N. Security Council failed to reach agreement on a statement....more... County heat toll rises to 6 (San Bernardino County Sun)
The San Bernardino County Coroner's Office reported its fifth and sixth suspected heat-related deaths on Thursday as a record-breaking heat wave cooled and a late-afternoon rain fell....more... Frontier Airlines Reports Fiscal First Quarter 2007 Results (FinanzNachrichten)
DENVER, July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Frontier Airlines Holdings ( Nachrichten ), Inc. today reported net income of $4.0 million, or $.10 per diluted common share, for the airline's fiscal first quarter ended June 30, 2006 compared to a net loss of $2.7 million, or $0.08 per diluted common share, for the same period last year....more... After 119, 105-degree day is cool, dude (Los Angeles Daily News)
How do you spell relief on the 21st day of a triple-digit heat wave? "O-N-L-Y 1-0-5 D-E-G-R-E-E-S" in the west San Fernando Valley on Wednesday....more... |