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  • No Other Surgical Benefit? Seriously!?

    By Danny Vena - September 1, 2012 | Tickers: ISRG, MAKO | Editor's Choice

    Imagine you have been experiencing medical symptoms:  You have a lump in your throat, near the Adam’s apple; hoarseness when speaking; difficulty swallowing and breathing; pain in your throat.  Thinking it is probably just the flu, you go to your doctor for tests.  Then, the unimaginable – thyroid cancer!  You doctor tells you not to worry (yeah, right).  You have caught it early enough that surgery is an option and more »

  • Will Amazon KO Mercadolibre?

    By Danny Vena - July 29, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, BBY, EBAY, MELI, WMT | Editor's Choice

    When Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) was founded as an online bookstore in 1994, the world had no idea how this company would revolutionize retailing as we knew it and become the heavyweight champ of online retail.  Fast forward 18 years.  Look at their two largest competitors in the book market.  Borders, out for the count, filed for bankruptcy and liquidated in 2011.  While Barnes and Noble reaps the short-term benefit more »

  • Your Investment in China May be Worthless

    By Danny Vena - July 23, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, BIDU, EDU, SINA, YHOO | Editor's Choice

    Imagine checking your portfolio one day and finding a sizable portion had become worthless.  Headlines of every financial website and publication proclaim “China Stocks Plummet.”  Investors everywhere scramble in an attempt to unload their now worthless holdings, but to no avail.  Billions are lost, retirements postponed, talking heads drone endlessly on about how this could have happened or how it could have been prevented.  Congress convenes special committees to draft more »

  • Can Green Mountain Lose the Albatross?

    By Danny Vena - June 19, 2012 | Tickers: GMCR, SWY, SBUX, KR, WMT | Editor's Choice

    Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR) is known for their nearly ubiquitous Keurig coffee brewer, which brews single servings of coffee from their patented K-Cups.  Back in the glory days it seemed the stock and the company could do little wrong.  It is estimated that Green Mountain controls nearly 85% of the single serve market.  We’ve known for some time those K-Cups would be losing their patent protection in more »