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When Al Qaeda struck the World Trade Center on Sept 11, 2001 it ended an era of relative global peace that had begun with the fall of the Soviet Union and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989. …

Whole Foods (NASDAQ: WFMI), a stock I recommended 2 weeks ago, got a favorable write up in this weekend’s Barron’s (subscription required).  Barron’s is widely read among professional investors who frequently buy up large quantities of the stocks recommended by…

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) today reported 4th quarter and fiscal year 2006 results that were positively received by Wall Street.  The shares jumped $2.49 to $19.78, a more than 14% increase, as 221.6 million shares, 3.64% of the company, traded…

Whole Foods (NASDAQ: WFMI) was down $6.76, or 11.75%, today on extremely heavy volume – 16 million of the 140.712 million outstanding shares amounting to 11.4% of the company changed hands today.  That knocked another $500 million off the company’s…

I speak, of course, of Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFMI) and it’s businessman-philosopher CEO John Mackey.  Whole Foods reported it’s fiscal 3rd quarter after the close today (Mon July 31) and is trading at 52 week lows in after hours…

Netflix reported earnings after the close yesterday (Monday July 24) and proceeded to get hammered in after hours trading for what seem to me insufficent reasons.  The stock was down about $5 today, about 21% of it’s market capitalization, to…

It’s another hot one today – 105 right now, according to weather.com, and heading up to 108 later today.  A good time, then, to continue our analysis of how to profit from the heat.  One thing that was left out…

Man was it hot today.  According to weather.com the high for today out here in Granite Bay was 113!  And I sure felt it.  I have to say that this kind of heat really puts me in a bad mood. …