Filed under: Earnings reports , Good news , Marketing and advertising , Whole Foods Market (WFMI) Whole Foods Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI ), once the grocery darling of the investing market, took a serious wrong turn somewhere in the M&A market in 2007.

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Whole Foods shares up on news of more whole foods

Filed under: Starbucks (SBUX) , Employees For me, part of the charm of a good coffee house is the languorous pace. Those in a blood-pounding hurry aren’t willing to wait while a frothy delight is put together. Apparently, the staff at Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX ) has been a little too laid back, so the company is conducting time studies and training them to make every motion count

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Starbucks teaching efficiency with Mr. Potato Head

Filed under: Launches , Federal Reserve Would you believe the the U.S. Treasury will have issued $1.8 trillion of debt by September 2009

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U.S. Treasury plans to issue more TIPS bonds

Filed under: Whole Foods Market (WFMI) , Electronic Arts (ERTS) , Sotheby’s (BID) The markets closed down in negative territory, but today will feel like a win to many traders. Each day the news keeps getting a set up for a sell-off and nothing materializes.

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Closing Bell: The down day that didn’t feel too down (USU, WFMI, BID, ERTS, TIVO)

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Filed under: Earnings reports , Wal-Mart (WMT) , McDonald’s (MCD) , Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) Not that long ago, Coinstar (NASDAQ: CSTR ) was a sleepy business.

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Coinstar: Red hot with Redbox

Filed under: International markets , China , Newsletters , Mutual funds , Stocks to Buy “For income investors, China is one of the hardest places on the planet to find high yields,” says income specialist Carla Pasternak .

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China funds for growth and income

Filed under: Newsletters , Stocks to Buy , Recession “With state governments going bankrupt, the last thing bureaucrats want to do is spend precious resources on managing their prison systems,” explains growth stock expert Marc Lichtenfeld . The senior analyst for Xcelerated Profits Report suggests, “For-profit institutions are usually able to provide prison services more efficiently than the government can. And there’s one company that stands out — The GEO Group (NYSE: GEO ).” “Nearly two-and-a-half million people are behind bars in American prisons.

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GEO Group (GEO): A ’steal’ in for-profit prisons