While housing markets continue to lag, providing one of the largest obstacles for a self-sustained economic recovery, The Home Depot, one of the largest home repair retailers, posted a 12% surge in profits despite falling sales.
And with recent natural catastrophes proving atomic energy isn't what you'd call 'safe, ' it's a good thing the researchers down at the RMIT University in Melbourne have been hard at work figuring out how to turn you into a self-sustained energy source.
And that way the expansion then becomes more self-generating and sustained, and perhaps to some extent makes believers out of even those who sort of argued against the fact that it would continue, and certainly, I think, put to rest any talk of double dips.
Some company specific concerns: Sustained multi-year negative same store sales growth underscore significant volume and customer attrition that remains self reinforcing.