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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
By Andrew Gordon
Dear Reader,
Hard to believe, but investors are still buying stock. In a down market, it gets harder. The rules change. The numbers mean different things. If you don’t adjust, your portfolio will sink, right along with the market. |
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
By Jeff Clark
This is the stupidest story I've read in a long time...
Shares of Salesforce.com (CRM), which provides Internet-based customer relationship management software, have been climbing all week. The rally is in reaction to a story about a potential buyout by software giant Oracle for $75 per share. |
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 |
Fellow Investor,
It seems like every day that the market is down big... it's up huge the next... then down big again... and so on. The end result is all sound and fury but it actually signifies nothing. |
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
The Legendary Father of P/E Ratios and Dividends
Benjamin Graham is known as the "Father of Value Investing" and the "Dean of Wall Street." He fathered the concept of in-depth fundamental analysis of stocks. The current and widely familiar concepts of price to earnings ratios (P/E ratios), dividends, debt-to-equity, book value and earnings growth became main stream in fundamental research. |
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
Stocks mixed as investors await Fed NEW YORK - Wall Street was mixed Tuesday as the Federal Reserve opened a two-day meeting expected to result in another interest rate cut.
The Fed's imminent rate decision is clearly the market's focus this week, so trading will be marked by investors' conjectures about policymakers' thoughts on the weak economy and crunched financial industry. |
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
by Andrew Mickey
What a week! The Fed made the biggest emergency cut in history. Congress is set to pump a $150 billion into the U.S. economy. And still, it’s not enough to get the markets turned around. |
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Saturday, 19 January 2008 |
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Our government has added a new universe to its sovereign domain: Second Life. Second Life is a virtual world in which people – "residents" – interact with other "residents" via digital alter egos, or avatars. Yes, people really do spend entire days living in this digital world, setting up businesses and earning "Linden dollars," which is the virtual currency. |
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
by Adam Lass, Market Analyst
“Oil hits $100!” There are two ways to view that historic headline. On the one hand, you could take the tack (as has virtually all of the major media) that this is a speculative move based solely on the idea that there ain’t enough of the black stuff to feed the growing global craving. |
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
by Adam Lass
Welcome to 2008. I wish I could tell you that something remarkable happened when we crossed off the last day of 2007 and took that weathered, old calendar off the fridge. |
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007 |
By Andrew Gordon
Dear Reader,
The phone woke me from a dead sleep. It was the middle of the night. For Ning Shao, however, it was right before his lunch break.
I had known Ning Shao for almost 10 years, ever since he interned in the Baltimore office I worked in. He had moved back to China six years before and we had stayed in touch. |
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Wednesday, 28 November 2007 |
By Graham Summers
Asia's best money manager says China is not a bubble. Wong Kok Hoi is the chairman and chief investment officer of APS Asset Management in Singapore. His China A Share Fund has returned average annual gains of 88% for three years. |
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Wednesday, 28 November 2007 |
Last Sunday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dropped a bombshell in Riyadh. And while it wasn't a nuclear one, it might as well have been.
He stated on the record at a rare gathering of the heads of the Oil Producing and Exporting Countries (OPEC) cartel that OPEC members have expressed a real interest in converting their cash reserves from the beleaguered U.S. greenback to the European euro. |
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Saturday, 24 November 2007 |
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You’re excited about Al Gore getting into the White House, either gnashing your teeth or jumping for joy. Either way, it is indeed a gracious gesture by the current administration to invite Al along with several other Nobel Prize guys to an upcoming reception. |
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Saturday, 24 November 2007 |
By Chris Mayer
I just returned from my latest research trip to India, where we were always on the move...Our journey started in the bustling port city of Mumbai (Bombay), home to Asia's oldest stock exchange. Then we moved on to visit high-tech campuses in Bangalore and Hyderabad. The latter is only miles from the ancient city of Golconda, once renowned for its diamonds. |
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Wednesday, 21 November 2007 |
Jonathan Kolber
Hewlett-Packard has just unveiled a new data storage and communications technology. It puts all this power into a chip just 1.4 mm. wide. The company talks about several interesting applications. However, it’s one they don’t talk about that has the greatest promise. |
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Wednesday, 14 November 2007 |
By Roger Conrad and David Dittman
According to Bloomberg data, Canada’s dollar took its biggest one-day fall since 1971 on Monday. The loonie closed at USD1.0307, down 2.9 percent from Friday’s close of USD1.0606. Last Wednesday, it traded as high as USD1.1039; according to research by Bank of Nova Scotia, the last time the loonie was that strong was during the Civil War. |
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Saturday, 03 November 2007 |
Shares of Medical Investor pick McKesson (MCK) soared this week after the company announced growth across the board. The drug distributor saw double-digit growth in its flagship wholesale business. McKesson trounced analyst earnings estimates and also improved its earnings outlook for 2008. The good news earned the company a "buy" upgrade from a Citigroup analyst.
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 |
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Hey you have come this far, reading this page be assured you are in the right place I have organized an easy to understand write-up on how you could evaluate a stock for its sensible price, here’s how.. |
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
How this could be overcome by you and me alike;
The truth that lies underneath the price of a company’s share is quite often a jargon a small investor hardly understands this being a tough truth that most of the small investors end up losing money in stocks even in rising markets. |
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Friday, 22 June 2007 |
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Yes I have always argued in the past that owning a home could be unwieldy and bane in the first place, but WAIT !! if you still have the appetite to counter my arguments and unrelenting to put off your plans to own a home... |
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