Click here to go to the hitachi site.  ( Enter and click on a new breed of bloodhound, the html screen a couple of posts back takes a while to load from the blog, it is much faster if you go directly to the company site.  At any rate, those of you who have expressed…

Seems like everyone is after WMT, from Barack and the Unions  towns in New England.  Alas, the generals always fight the last war, perhaps WMT’s detractors should spend more time looking at financial statements and less time looking back. Seems same store sales are up a tiny 1.5% year over year, yep, WMT has become…

While we are used to such pleas by the ‘homeless’ this is the first we have seen this sort of plea from GM and Ford.  On the front page of the Wednesday Nov 15, 2006 WSJ, Ford and GM are having to actually pledge their plants and equipment to secure loans.  This is a HUGE…

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I recently wondered about the ongoing results for Force Protection . The news on the products sounds great, they are a fast growing company in S Carolina providing armored vehicles for Iraq, but they have not turned a profit. all that changed this week with the quarterly release of their earnings, click on the hyper…

Here is a link to the finance.yahoo site for Force Protection. Click and note the glowing reviews for the company in the articles mentioned.  And no wonder, click here for a link to the FRPT.OB website.  As you will see their specialty is the production of armored vechiles to withstand IED Improvised Explosive Device blasts. …

The WSJ has been chronicling the journey of pen again. From start up on the net to their Big Break, it’s all here.  There are links to the articles on their website, the latest of which is in Monday Nov 13 WSJ.  I was intrigued by their contract to make the pens in China, then get…

We are studying budgeting in Chapter 9 in the cost class.  Suppose you are Omega , long time Swiss rival of Rolex. Neither is a watch but a high priced fashion accessory.  Omega got some mileage years ago by getting the US Astronauts to wear them into space. Rolex sponsors sporting events and has had…

MY Oct 31 post mentioned the Ferrari strategy of limiting production to just seventeen cars a day, the waiting lines just get longer. Now Toyota has decided to do the same thing with its Scion Brand.  Devised as a car to appeal to younger buyers, it has been a smash hit.  The article on page…

Ahead of the Tape on page C1 Nov 10 WSJ reports that MSO only makes money on merchandising, publishing and broadcasting are losing money.  Yet the shares are trading at a pricey 82 times earnings, remember the P/E ratio?  Google by contrast trades for 38, other media companies for much less.  There is some speculation…