“Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.” Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable Sleepy week.  

Natural gas prices sold-off again today, losing another 2% as the back of the strip led prices lower.  We saw overproduction concerns as front and center today, with the January prompt month contract outperforming the other two winter contracts, and the back of the strip selling off almost as much as the front.  Yet we…

As a shareholder, you do well to place more emphasis on risk than on reward. Corporate management usually does the opposite, and this is why most large acquisitions fail. In fact, I assume from the start that an acquisition will fail — or at least will turn out not nearly as profitable as the picture…

Inflation and unemployment are often considered to have an inverse relationship. When employment rates are low, there is competition for workers and wages go up, assuming supply and demand markets are functioning. But with unemployment at 4.1% in November, its lowest rate since 2000 and beyond what the US Federal Reserve officially considers a sustainable long-run rate,…

United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI – Free Report) has been investor’s preferred pick for quite some time, as evident from its solid bull run. This Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) stock has rallied 47.6% in the past six months, outperforming the industry’s decline of 1.7%. United Natural has been riding on effective growth policies. Moreover, a favorable outlook for fiscal…