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Coca-Cola Bottler Cuts 2004 Outlook Amid Softer Demand

ATLANTA – Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. (CCE), the largest bottler of Coca-Cola products, lowered its full-year earnings outlook and put its third-quarter forecast below analysts’ expectations due to softer-than-expected volume trends. The news sent the company’s shares down $1.18, or 5.7 percent, to $19.41 Wednesday morning on theNew York Stock Exchange …

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British Politicians Vow to Stay Course

WASHINGTON – Although a majority of Britons may want the Blair government to follow Spain in withdrawing from Iraq, prominent British politicians insist that Britain will stay the course. A new poll published Monday finds that 55 percent of those surveyed want British troops pulled out of Iraq when power …

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Stupid It's Not the Economy — It's Iraq

This is a partial transcript of “Special Report with Brit Hume”,May14, 2004that has been edited for clarity. Watch “Special Report With Brit Hume” weeknights at 6 p.m. ET JIM ANGLE, GUEST-HOST: The prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq appears to have done more damage to the support for the war, and …

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