Michelle fleury has more. Americans love of lattes and iced coffee helped starbucks through the worst of the post pandemic years. But with high inflation in the us, a cup of coffee is now 5 on average. The big question for investors going into this Earnings Season was would consumers still spend money on elaborate coffees . The answer was mixed. Sales in North America grew 7 , even after the chain raised prices. That figure was below wall streets forecast. Customer traffic only increased by 1 . Most of the gains came from existing customers spending more money. Sales in china, its second biggest market, rose sharply. Same store sales increased a whopping 46 from a year ago. Starbucks remains a favorite brand among chinese consumers. The company benefiting from a rebound after strict covid 19 restrictions were lifted. But the coffee chain said that Wage Increases and investment in its cafes dragged down its overall profits. Starbucks ceo laxman narasimhan, who took over from predecessor
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Americans love of lattes and iced coffee helped starbucks through the worst of the post pandemic years. But with high inflation in the us, a cup of coffee is now 5 on average. The big question for investors going into this Earnings Season was would consumers still spend money on elaborate coffees . The answer was mixed. Sales in North America grew 7 , even after the chain raised prices. That figure was below wall streets forecast. Customer traffic only increased by 1 . Most of the gains came from existing customers spending more money. Sales in china, its second biggest market, rose sharply. Same store sales increased a whopping 46 from a year ago. Starbucks remains a favorite brand among chinese consumers. The company benefiting from a rebound after strict covid 19 restrictions were lifted. But the coffee chain said that Wage Increases and investment in its cafes dragged down its overall profits. Starbucks ceo laxman narasimhan, who took over from predecessor Howard Schultz in march,
Yesterday to reauthorize federal aviation programs and would enact safety protections for passengers the Senate Passed a shortterm extension to prevent the current bill from lapsing later today and the house will take up the full legislation the house is expected to vote on it next week. We are learning more about the probe by the s. E. C. Into boeing reviewing statements over the Safety Practices after a panel blew off the alaska air flight back in january. We talked a lot about it investigators focused on the comments made by the Company Executives may have misled investors in violation of s. E. C. Rules. We will hear headlines about this for some time. In fed speak, San Francisco fed president mary daly said Interest Rates are currently restraining the economy, but it may take more time to return inflation to the Central Banks goals. It sounds like higher for longer pitch. It echos remarks from the fed chair jay powell last month where daly said the uptick in price data shows you ca