Starbucks Corp. (SBUX)

October retail sales fell 24%, the worst one-month decline on record. Watch these restaurants and food chains that are targets of the protests.

Retail has proved a volatile industry as tastes and trends change -- and now there are some signs that Amazon shares could be turning vulnerable, too.

Compared with prior Singles Day events, Alibaba got a bigger sales lift this year from 'lower-tier' Chinese cities, and saw stronger promotional activity from big brands.

Here's how to play shares of the coffee chain.

Hong Kong has its first firmly protest-related death, after a second-year university student died from a car park fall. Conspiracies fly in this city of demonstration, once again likely to burn aflame.

The RMPIA's 3.8% jump even beat the Nasdaq Composite Index's 3.7% October climb.

The coffee merchant's charts indicate the decline in its stock has slowed and that a new uptrend could be at hand.

The market is throwing a Halloween sale right now that it doesn't need to throw, and that's an opportunity.

I do think that this Fed Chair has learned to be cautious, in reflection of the policy errors made in late 2018.

Don't buy what the bears are selling until the market character shifts. Focus on good stock picking.

Traders can learn from watching, as well as doing, and with the FOMC meeting landing, now's best time to practice the former.

Markets are watching what Fed Chair Powell will signal for future rate cuts during this afternoon's FOMC rate decision.

Visa is playing a big role in the shift to digital shopping -- of all sorts -- and dividend-seeking investors should take heed.

Rest up for a busy week that includes earnings from Apple, Facebook and Starbucks.

Shares of LK have been holding, and I'm drawn to a particular crossover pattern.

WEN boosted its quarterly dividend to 12 cents a share, up from 10 cents, continuing its annual streak of modest dividend increases started in 2012.

The constant viewing of charts encourages objectivity and selectivity.

If your goal is to ratchet up trade tension? There couldn't been a better moment, hence one of the worst moments for the stock market since the trade battle began.

RMPIA is up 20.9% in the first nine months of 2019.

When you have an oversold market you've got a true coiled spring that can rally beyond where it might ordinary go on good news.

Investors are culling the stocks that are worth owning and shedding those that aren't, and Starbucks is a prime example.

Antipathy between the U.S. and Chinese governments doesn't extend to the Chinese people, who have stepped up their American buying just when you would expect a politically gendered collapse of demand.

A bunch of beaten-up value names registered double-digit percentage gains last week; we'll see if the rally can continue.

You can't have the banks and financial tech stocks go up, old and new tech rally simultaneously and the soft goods companies and industrial techs rise -- someone's wrong.

When you get a chance to buy the best of the best stocks down around 10%, that's a gift.

For the second day in a row, the indexes appeared mild while action below was messy, then a late buy program jammed them to the highs of the day.

One has to wonder whether there isn't a wholesale shift in China toward internal consumption and away from exporting.