To its huge credit, GUS has moved from being a rag-tag of businesses with a reliance on a declining home shopping market to a very focused retail group.

Oregon, to its credit, is dealing with it.

It's a huge concession on the part of Lowe's to downsize, ... For Lowe's to downsize from its prototypical 137,000 square feet means they'll have to change the way they merchandise.

The big surprise has been that the inevitable hit to the U.S. economy from the hurricane hasn't hit the market yet -- this market doesn't want to lie down.

Given the low rating of the shares, we would hope they would be buying them and indeed they are,

Oil is uncomfortably high; it is inflationary, ... If you are struggling a bit on the continent, as Germany is, you really do not want high input prices.