Starbucks is losing ground in the U.S. and facing increased competition in China. Heard on the Street editor Spencer Jakab explains what’s at stake for the company if it doesn’t succeed in China.

Starboard Value reported stake in Starbucks comes just weeks after the WSJ reported in July that Elliot Investment Management had taken a position in the coffee chain and was in talks on ways that ...

which owns brands like Lysol and Mucinex — continued to mount when it was announced in July that activist investor Elliot Management had acquired a stake in Starbucks and when, on Friday ...