Day: November 15, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday morning when I went to Panera (St. Louis) Bread to get morning bagel, I noticed they raised the price from 89 cents to 95 cents. I can fully understand the pressure they are facing: the rising wheat, diary, and energy cost. Today Starbucks came out with earning, and understandablely a disappointing outlook (bloomberg). SBUX

Reading Time: < 1 minute I resumed my homework on stocks today. By homework I mean the research I did on stocks, basically I copied the financial numbers, such as revenue, earning, company own forecast to a Google spreadsheet, and do some simple calculation such as growth rate, price sales ratio (market cap divide by the revenue). This is very