Cook is a logistics guy.  Apple needs a visionary.  They are hard to find.

Apple has never done well without Jobs.

It will be interesting to revisit this post a year from now and see how the various oil companies performed.

As to the negative comments, the story is highly negative and written by an activist journalist.  Since Wal-Mart blocked unions years ago, union members and supporters will flock to negative Wal-Mart stories like moths to a flame. The point is this: the media has been consistently writing negative stories about Wal-...more

Wal-Mart's revenue was $447 billion last year, $422 billion in 2011 and $408 billion in 2010. Wal-Mart is doing just fine.

How does Cramer still have a job? He sold Apple so now he can dis them. Beware, Apple is probably at the beginning of a multi-year decline.  Apparently, no products in the pipeline that can prevent this.

Jeff, in a 10/26/2010 blog, you listed five Dow stocks to not buy now.  Since then those five stocks are up 8.6% while the Dow is up only 6.4%. Looking at the stocks on your list, you sound more like an activist than a reporter.  Aren't you ready to retract your blog?

From the date of this article to the close yesterday, XOM was up 10.4%.   BP was up 0.8%; CVX was up 21.4% and COP was up 9.2%.

You can spot Fleck's articles by the headline.