Saw this story at Yahoo Finance today. Tesoro Corporation Terminates Rights Plan
Last year Tracinda offered $64 per share for Tesoro. Then Tesoro implemented this plan to dissuade a takeover. Now that the stock is floundering around the low $30’s, they must be hoping that Tracinda or someone else will be templated to […]

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Chris Perruna analyzes Chipotle Mexican Grill and compares it to CROX. Basically, institutional investors are slowly heading for the exits. Click here for the article.

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The Tesoro Hawaii refinery was shut down due to a fire over the weekend.
How much more financial pain will this unit to continue to inflict?

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Chipotle reported earnings tonight. Their net income was up 62% at 53 cents per share. Unfortunately, they missed analyst estimates by 2 cents per share, which sent shares down 13+% after hours. The share price was around $93.50 after hours.
I’m so tired of watching my stocks tumble because of over optimistic estimates.
Dear […]

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This week I bought a new FranklinCovey Calendar for 2008. There’s something exciting about buying a new, empty calendar. It is like buying a new notebook. The pages are empty, but they hold promise. Maybe something new and exciting will happen during the next year.
As I thought about the new FranklinCovey […]

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On Monday I logged into my IRA to see how the morning was going. To my horror, I had a major drop. Every portfolio in the entire Universe was up on Monday, except mine.
On further investigation, it turns out that Walgreens had turned in a HUGE negative surprise. They missed earning estimates […]

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