tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611711170665748612024-03-13T13:03:35.305-07:00BUCKzologya mind's eye view on the study of investing a buckUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361171117066574861.post-80404940667860680902010-12-28T09:11:00.000-08:002010-12-28T11:43:31.393-08:00Top 10 Stock Picks For 2011 "go 4 cheap-bucks 2 reap"<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/TRo0QdFhpEI/AAAAAAAABrA/-TkAKCY5Qpg/s1600/BUCKzology_wallstreet.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 170px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 113px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555810547605283906" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/TRo0QdFhpEI/AAAAAAAABrA/-TkAKCY5Qpg/s400/BUCKzology_wallstreet.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>Here are BUCKzology's TOP TEN STOCK PICKS FOR 2011 & there are four rules I follow when trading on-line or on paper trades...<span style="font-size:78%;"><em>First</em>, pick stocks under $10 a share</span></strong><span style="font-size:78%;">; this allows you to purchase a substantial number of stocks at an affordable price with upside potential where small moves can translate into big profit.</span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong><em>Second</em>, remove your ego from the equation every time you place a trade.</strong> The stock market doesn't respond well to an ego. When trading stocks online, you need veins of ice and hell with a sense of humor thrown in for good measure. Just laugh it off and relax when you make a bad trade. The markets will force it to happen, so cut your losses and move on to your next trade.<br /><br /><strong><em>Third</em>, read as much as you can and study every successful trader you can find.</strong> This means going to the library and reading up constantly on every single great trader and getting all the information in your head as possible. I spent the first couple months trading doing just this before placing a single trade, and even to this day still read up on it to improve my knowledge of the stock exchange.<br /><br /><strong><em>Fourth</em>, develop a great system/strategy to trade on.</strong> This can be in the form of a newsletter, a series of videos, trading indicators and signals, or a mentor; form some combination of each. When trading stocks online, you need a specific game plan in order to take home profits. Lacking one pretty much guarantees failure. A good strategy relies on good insight!</span><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">According to financial reporter Robert Holmes of "The Street", he states: <em>"The following 10 U.S. stocks trade at less than $5 and have garnered the most "buy" ratings from analysts, which could lead to high returns over the next 12 months."</em> ( </span><a href="http://www.stockpickr.com/thestreet-portfolios/portfolio/top-stock-picks-under-5-for-2011/"><span style="font-size:78%;">http://www.stockpickr.com/thestreet-portfolios/portfolio/top-stock-picks-under-5-for-2011/</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;"> ) I whole-heartedly agree! Click on the names for analysis by Google Financials:<br /><br />10. </span><a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AACHN"><span style="font-size:78%;">Achillion Pharmaceuticals (ACHN)<br /></span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Company Profile: Achillion Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative treatments for infectious diseases.<br />Share Price: $3.03 (Dec. 17)<br />2010 Stock Performance: -2.6%<br />Current Target Price:<br />High Target Price Estimate 12.00<br />Low Target Price Estimate 4.00<br />Mean Target Price Estimate 5.83<br />Standard Deviation 3.06<br />Date of Most Recent Estimate 12/9/10<br /><br />9. </span><a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AGMR"><span style="font-size:78%;">General Maritime (GMR)</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />Company Profile: General Maritime is a provider of international seaborne crude-oil transportation services.<br />Share Price: $3.18 (Dec. 17)<br />2010 Stock Performance: -54%<br />Current Target Price:<br />High Target Price Estimate 8.00<br />Low Target Price Estimate 3.50<br />Mean Target Price Estimate 5.11<br />Standard Deviation 1.41<br />Date of Most Recent Estimate 12/22/10<br /><br />8. </span><a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AALTH"><span style="font-size:78%;">Allos Therapeutics (ALTH)<br /></span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Company Profile: Allos Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative small-molecule drugs for the treatment of cancer. The company's Folotyn (pralatrexate) is designed to treat T-cell lymphoma.<br />Share Price: $4.35(Dec. 17)<br />2010 Stock Performance: -34%<br />Current Target Price:<br />High Target Price Estimate 10.00<br />Low Target Price Estimate 3.00<br />Mean Target Price Estimate 7.28<br />Standard Deviation 2.53<br />Date of Most Recent Estimate 11/8/10<br /><br />7. </span><a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=vtg"><span style="font-size:78%;">Vantage Drilling (VTG)</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />Company Profile: Vantage Drilling contracts drilling units, related equipment and work crews to drill oil and natural gas wells.<br />Share Price: $2.20 (Dec. 17)<br />2010 Stock Performance: 37%<br />Current Target Price:<br />Vantage Drilling Company has the 7th highest upside potential in this segment of the market. Its upside is 116.2%. Its consensus target price is $2.98 based on the average of all estimates.<br />High Target Price Estimate 2.75<br />Low Target Price Estimate 0.75<br />Mean Target Price Estimate 1.98<br />Median Target Price Estimate 2.18<br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">6. </span><a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=qtm"><span style="font-size:78%;">Quantum Corp. (QTM)</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />Company Profile: Quantum is a global storage company specializing in backup, recovery and archive services. It provides a range of disk, tape and software services.<br />Share Price: $3.72 (Dec. 17)<br />2010 Stock Performance: 27%<br />Current Target Price:<br />Possible acquisition by Dell, Oracle or NetApp<br />High Target Price Estimate 5.00<br />Low Target Price Estimate 4.00<br />Mean Target Price Estimate 4.48<br />Median Target Price Estimate 4.50<br /><br />5. </span><a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=snv"><span style="font-size:78%;">Synovus Financial (SNV)</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />Company Profile: Synovus is a financial-services company that provides commercial and retail banking services, financial management, insurance, mortgage and leasing services.<br />Share Price: $2.54 (Dec. 17)<br />2010 Stock Performance: 24%<br />Current Target Price:<br />High Target Price Estimate 4.00<br />Low Target Price Estimate 2.50<br />Mean Target Price Estimate 3.02<br />Standard Deviation 0.46<br />Date of Most Recent Estimate 12/15/10<br /><br />4. </span><a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=satc"><span style="font-size:78%;">SatCon Technology (SATC)<br /></span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Company Profile: SatCon delivers power-conditioning services for large renewable-energy installations.<br />Share Price: $4.27 (Dec. 17)<br />2010 Stock Performance: 51%<br />Current Target Price:<br />High Target Price Estimate 7.25<br />Low Target Price Estimate 4.50<br />Mean Target Price Estimate 5.70<br />Standard Deviation 0.83<br />Date of Most Recent Estimate 12/20/10<br /><br />3. </span><a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=aria"><span style="font-size:78%;">Ariad Pharmaceuticals (ARIA)</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />Company Profile: Ariad Pharmaceuticals develops cancer treatments by regulating cell signaling with small molecules.<br />Share Price: $4.57 (Dec. 17)<br />2010 Stock Performance: 100%<br />Current Target Price:<br />High Target Price Estimate 7.00<br />Low Target Price Estimate 5.00<br />Mean Target Price Estimate 6.00<br />Median Target Price Estimate 6.00<br /><br />2. </span><a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=s"><span style="font-size:78%;">Sprint Nextel (S)<br /></span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Company Profile: Sprint Nextel offers a range of wireless and wireline products and services.<br />Share Price: $4.16 (Dec. 17)<br />2010 Stock Performance: 14%<br />Current Target Price:<br />High Target Price Estimate 8.00<br />Low Target Price Estimate 3.00<br />Mean Target Price Estimate 5.15<br />Standard Deviation 1.32<br />Date of Most Recent Estimate 12/20/10<br /><br />1. </span><a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=c"><span style="font-size:78%;">Citigroup (C)</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />Company Profile: Citigroup provides a range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit cards.<br />Share Price: $4.70 (Dec. 17)<br />2010 Stock Performance: 42%<br />Current Target Price:<br />High Target Price Estimate 6.90<br />Low Target Price Estimate 4.00<br />Mean Target Price Estimate 5.37<br />Median Target Price Estimate 5.50<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>(sources: yahoo.com, google.com, hotstocked.com, thestreet.com)</em></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361171117066574861.post-50994846540146887292010-03-02T14:13:00.000-08:002010-03-02T14:24:07.678-08:00Millionaire By Age 65 Saving $100 A Month?<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/S42P_E8DpKI/AAAAAAAABGk/KfD0RHel6N4/s1600-h/IHaveAPlan.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 311px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444165838380967074" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/S42P_E8DpKI/AAAAAAAABGk/KfD0RHel6N4/s400/IHaveAPlan.JPG" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>The magic of compounding interest...</strong>the younger you start saving for the future the better...if you start at age 20 investing $100 per month you can be a millionaire by age 65...<span style="font-size:78%;"><em>the catch is find a way to get an annual rate of return at 10.25%...parents, if you start saving $100 per month for your kids at age 1 they could be millionaires by age 65 with an annual rate of return at 6.00%...the point is...start the savings plan as early as possible...here is a link below to a calculator for planning out your time frame for that first million in savings:<br /></em></span></span><a href="http://deposits.interest.com/content/calculators/saving_million_dollars_calculator.asp"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>MILLIONAIRE CALCULATOR</em></span></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em></em></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361171117066574861.post-69702087599776908452010-03-02T13:20:00.000-08:002010-03-02T13:50:28.829-08:00Warren Buffet "Rules To Live By" Apply In 2010<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/S42Gs_8IgRI/AAAAAAAABGc/CWSItHYIrTA/s1600-h/Warren_Buffett.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 270px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 329px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444155632196813074" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/S42Gs_8IgRI/AAAAAAAABGc/CWSItHYIrTA/s400/Warren_Buffett.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>Ever wonder what Rules Warren Buffett Lives By when it comes to investing?</strong> Here from an article by Stephanie Loiacono via Investopedia.com is the answer... "Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatest stock investor. He's also a bit of a philosopher. He pares down his investment ideas into simple, memorable sound bites. Do you know what his homespun sayings really mean? Does his philosophy hold up in today's difficult environment? Find out below. </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />"Rule No. 1: Never Lose Money. "<br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />"Rule No. 2: Never Forget Rule No. 1."<br /><br />Buffett personally lost about $23 billion in the financial crisis of 2008, and his company, Berkshire Hathaway, lost its revered AAA ratings. So how can he tell us to never lose money?<br /><br />He's referring to the mindset of a sensible investor. Don't be frivolous. Don't gamble. Don't go into an investment with a cavalier attitude that it's OK to lose. Be informed. Do your homework. Buffett invests only in companies he thoroughly researches and understands. He doesn't go into an investment prepared to lose, and neither should you.<br /><br />Buffett believes the most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. A successful investor doesn't focus on being with or against the crowd.<br /><br />The stock market will swing up and down. But in good times and bad, Buffett stays focused on his goals. So should we. (This esteemed investor rarely changes his long-term investing strategy no matter what the market does.<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />"If The Business Does Well, the Stock Eventually Follows"<br /></em></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham convinced Buffett that investing in a stock equates to owning a piece of the business. So when he searches for a stock to invest in, Buffett seeks out businesses that exhibit favorable long-term prospects. Does the company have a consistent operating history? Does it have a dominant business franchise? Is the business generating high and sustainable profit margins? If the company's share price is trading below expectations for its future growth, then it's a stock Buffett may want to own.<br /><br />Buffett never buys anything unless he can write down his reasons why he'll pay a specific price per share for a particular company. Do you do the same?<br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />"It's Far Better to Buy a Wonderful Company at a Fair Price Than a Fair Company at a Wonderful Price"</em></span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><em><br /></em></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Buffett is a value investor who likes to buy quality stocks at rock-bottom prices. His real goal is to build more and more operating power for Berkshire Hathaway by owning stocks that will generate solid profits and capital appreciation for years to come. When the markets reeled during the recent financial crisis, Buffett was stockpiling great long-term investments by investing billions in names like General Electric and Goldman Sachs.<br /><br />To pick stocks well, investors must set down criteria for uncovering good businesses, and stick to their discipline. You might, for example, seek companies that offer a durable product or service and also have solid operating earnings and the germ for future profits. You might establish a minimum market capitalization you're willing to accept, and a maximum P/E ratio or debt level. Finding the right company at the right price -- with a margin for safety against unknown market risk -- is the ultimate goal.<br /><br />Remember, the price you pay for a stock isn't the same as the value you get. Successful investors know the difference.<br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />"Our Favorite Holding Period Is Forever"<br /><br />How long should you hold a stock? Buffett says if you don't feel comfortable owning a stock for 10 years, you shouldn't own it for 10 minutes. Even during the period he called the "Financial Pearl Harbor," Buffett loyally held on to the bulk of his portfolio.<br /><br />Unless a company has suffered a sea change in prospects, such as impossible labor problems or product obsolescence, a long holding period will keep an investor from acting too human. That is, being too fearful or too greedy can cause investors to sell stocks at the bottom or buy at the peak -- and destroy portfolio appreciation for the long run.<br /><br />You may think the recent financial meltdown changed things, but don't be fooled: those unfussy sayings from the Oracle of Omaha still RULE!<br /><br />More from Investopedia.com:<br /><br />• </em></span><a href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/valueinvesting.asp"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>The Buffett Philosophy </em></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>• </em></span><a href="http://www.investopedia.com/slide-show/buffet-portfolio/default.aspx?partner=yahoofin"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Baby Buffett Portfolio: His 6 Best Long-Term Picks </em></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>• </em></span><a href="http://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/08/Buffett-style.asp?partner=yahoofin"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Think Like Warren Buffett </em></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>More from Yahoo! Finance:<br /><br />• </em></span><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/108869/warren-buffetts-worst-mistakes"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Warren Buffett's Worst Mistakes </em></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>• </em></span><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/105626/10-Things-Millionaires-Won%27t-Tell-You"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>10 Things Millionaires Won't Tell You </em></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>• </em></span><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/108883/watch-out-for-new-credit-card-traps?mod=bb-creditcards"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Watch Out for New Credit Card Traps</em> </span></a><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361171117066574861.post-32222131247793407432010-01-02T12:37:00.000-08:002010-01-02T12:55:05.433-08:00Top 10 Stock Picks For 2010 (and then some)<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/Sz-yWz84o8I/AAAAAAAABD0/pcbL1eFYBvA/s1600-h/z_wallstreet.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 170px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 113px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422248581349811138" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/Sz-yWz84o8I/AAAAAAAABD0/pcbL1eFYBvA/s200/z_wallstreet.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>According to The Motley Fool, here are some stocks to consider for investment in 2010...</strong>this is based on readership suggestions that these particular companies will do well this year. So try these out if you dare. <span style="font-size:78%;">This year's selections will do well as companies, and hopefully as stocks, in 2010; CAPS, the Fool's investor intelligence database will help you rate them as either outperform or underperform in the year going forward. Click on each company link below to get The Motley Fool's take on the particular stock:<br /></span></span><br /><ul type="disc"><br /><li><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2009/12/30/the-best-stocks-for-2010-akamai.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Akamai Technologies</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2009/12/30/the-best-stocks-for-2010-apple.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Apple</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2009/12/30/the-best-stocks-for-2010-atp-oil-gas.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">ATP Oil & Gas</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2009/12/30/the-best-stocks-for-2010-berkshire-hathaway.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Berkshire Hathaway</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"> (optional)<br /></span></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2009/12/30/the-best-stocks-for-2010-costco.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Costco</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2009/12/30/the-best-stocks-for-2010-exelon.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Exelon</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2009/12/30/the-best-stocks-for-2010-google.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Google</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2009/12/30/the-best-stocks-for-2010-intel.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Intel</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"> (optional)<br /></span></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2009/12/30/the-best-stocks-for-2010-intuitive-surgical.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Intuitive Surgical</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2009/12/30/the-best-stocks-for-2010-nvidia.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">NVIDIA</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2009/12/30/the-best-stocks-for-2010-silver-wheaton.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Silver Wheaton</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2009/12/30/the-best-stocks-for-2010-smart-balance.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Smart Balance</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"> (optional)<br /></span></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/dividends-income/2009/12/30/the-best-stocks-for-2010-ups.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">UPS</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></li><br /></ul></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361171117066574861.post-35587045838299883352009-09-08T02:23:00.000-07:002009-09-08T02:42:58.991-07:00"Year Of The Bailout (2009)" - Top 5 Worst<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SqYl5QMJ7SI/AAAAAAAABCY/U_PAjjN8OhE/s1600-h/ricknewman.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 99px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 62px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379028470469356834" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SqYl5QMJ7SI/AAAAAAAABCY/U_PAjjN8OhE/s200/ricknewman.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>Here is another good article I found on SeekingAlpha.com (this one by <a href="http://seekingalpha.com/author/rick-newman">Rick Newman</a>)...</strong></span><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>"Has anything good come from $3 trillion worth of bailouts over the last 18 months?</strong> <strong>To be fair, probably.</strong> After Lehman Brothers failed in September 2008 and other Wall Street firms began to founder, urgent government intervention forestalled a deeper financial panic and perhaps even a depression. Instead of talking about a recovery today, we could be facing steep double-digit unemployment and many more months of misery.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>But the Year of the Bailout also entailed some disturbing moments, and there may still be unhappy consequences. Here's my list of the worst bailouts:<br /><br />AIG. Did the Federal Reserve know what it was getting into on Sept. 16, 2008? That's the day AIG would have collapsed if the Fed hadn't issued $85 billion in credit to the huge insurance company in exchange for a 79.9 percent ownership stake. The problem wasn't AIG's insurance units, which constitute most of the firm, but an internal hedge fund, AIG Financial Products, that was basically backing huge gambles with solid insurance assets. When the hedge fund bet wrong on billions in mortgage-backed securities, it imperiled the entire company.<br /><br />The Fed's intervention may have prevented deep losses throughout the banking system, but it also committed the government to a tawdry, open-ended bailout that's easily the single-biggest corporate rescue in U.S. history. The March 2009 revelation that AIG paid $165 million in bonuses to executives at the same Financial Products division that sank the firm became the hottest flash point in the Year of the Bailout and the darkest stain on bailout architects like Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Barry Ritholtz, author of Bailout Nation, contends that the government could have taken over the Financial Products division and treated it as a failed bank, imposing losses on every firm that did business with the unit. "You're supposed to suffer pain and agony when you put money into a company that's as corrupt as that AIG hedge fund," Ritholtz says. The insurance units, he argues, could have been spun off as a new stand-alone company, freed from the albatross of Financial Products.<br /><br />Bernanke has argued that since AIG wasn't a bank, the federal government lacked a legal and practical mechanism for taking over and dismantling the company. That's why the Obama administration wants Congress to grant the Fed new powers to take over "systemically significant" institutions like AIG when they fail. Meanwhile, the AIG bailout could wind on for another three or four years, and there's a good chance taxpayers will never get all their money back.<br /><br />Citigroup (C). When other banks become insolvent, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. swoops in, fires management, zeroes out the stock, pays bondholders a portion of their investment, and either sells off the bank in pieces to other banks or runs it until a buyer is found. But not Citigroup. This lumbering giant would have collapsed on its own, but instead of a takeover, Citigroup got $25 billion in bailout funds in October 2008, then another $20 billion three months later. Plus taxpayers are on the hook for a big chunk of $301 billion in mortgage-backed securities and other dodgy assets on Citigroup's books. It could be years before Citigroup is healthy. CEO Vikram Pandit has said that the fazed bank will pay back the taxpayers in full. But there's no deadline, and Pandit himself could be long gone before taxpayers get a dime back.<br /><br />Bank of America (BAC). If this North Carolina-based bank hadn't picked up ailing brokerage firm Merrill Lynch in September 2008, it might be out of the woods by now. But the Merrill acquisition saddled BofA with billions in losses and made CEO Ken Lewis a corporate pariah. One of the most tawdry episodes in the Year of the Bailout was the battle between Lewis, who reportedly wanted to renege on the Merrill acquisition when he learned that the brokerage would post a $28 billion loss for 2008, and Bernanke, who threatened Lewis with the disapprobation of the Fed if he backed out, which basically equates to death by bank examiner. Lewis caved. Then a couple months later he got to explain why Merrill executives earned $3.6 billion in bonuses while taxpayers were providing $45 billion to keep the firm afloat. Go ahead. Scream.<br /><br />Goldman Sachs (GS). Wall Street's toniest firm got $10 billion in TARP money in October 2008, along with eight other big banks that got government checks. Eight months later, Goldman was the first big bank to pay back its bailout money, with interest. Hooray for them. But Goldman also got a stealth bailout that will never be returned to taxpayers, courtesy of AIG. When the feds propped up AIG last fall, that allowed Goldman to ease its way out of nearly $6 billion worth of deals with AIG that could have been worth pennies on the dollar in a normal bankruptcy case. And later, Goldman got almost $14 billion of bailout money that went to AIG's trading partners, effectively redeeming Goldman's trading bets with AIG at 100 percent of their face value.<br /><br />Other banks got a 100 percent redemption out of AIG too, but Goldman got the most. And the fact that Henry Paulson, who was treasury secretary during the first four months of the meltdown, had come straight from a stint as CEO of Goldman Sachs raised the awful prospect that billions in taxpayer money was going to favored Wall Street fat cats. Nobody has ever offered a convincing explanation for the delicate treatment Goldman received, which fuels the worst kind of speculation. Please, say it ain't so.<br /><br />Bear Stearns. Nobody knew how momentous it was at the time, but the $30 billion deal in March 2008 to keep Bear from completely imploding set the stage for every bailout that followed—and some other disasters as well. Bear was one of the biggest players in the market for mortgage-backed securities, and it fell first when that market began to crumble. The Fed brokered a deal in which JPMorgan bought most of the firm for $1.2 billion, a fraction of Bear's former value, with the Fed taking on $29 billion worth of toxic securities nobody else would touch. The bailout helped calm markets at the time—partly because it created the expectation that the government would rescue any other Wall Street firm that got into trouble.<br /><br />That led Lehman Brothers to turn down financing offers from Warren Buffett and others when it needed cash, presumably because the firm felt it could hold out for a better deal—from the government, if necessary. When the feds let Lehman fail in September 2008, the chaos that followed partly stemmed from deep confusion over who deserved a bailout and who deserved a bullet. In retrospect, it's plausible that if the feds had let Bear Stearns fail outright, they could have done a better job of forcing Wall Street to work out its own problems—while saving taxpayers several hundred billion dollars. Of course, we'll never know. You only get one chance to get an epic bailout right.<br />Disclosure: no positions " </em></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>(source: article by Rick Newman "The Five Worst Bailouts" from seekingalpha.com)</em></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361171117066574861.post-34725224074389369252009-09-08T01:44:00.000-07:002009-09-08T02:04:11.666-07:00September - Worst Month For Stocks?<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SqYcqvB51LI/AAAAAAAABCQ/N9r5lOT6-N4/s1600-h/vitaliy.png"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 115px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 115px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379018325445170354" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SqYcqvB51LI/AAAAAAAABCQ/N9r5lOT6-N4/s200/vitaliy.png" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>On this past Labor Day Weekend (2009), I was catching up on some investments reading and came across this article by </strong></span><a href="http://seekingalpha.com/author/vitaliy-katsenelson"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>Vitaliy Katsenelson</strong></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>, a contributing writer at SeekingAlpha.com...</strong> here is his take on the historical stock investing record for the month of September:<br /><br /><em>"October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February. -Mark Twain<br /></em><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>September 1st is a very strange day for me. In Russia the school year across the whole country started on September 1st. I vividly remember myself as a child on that day throughout my childhood. The sun always shined brighter that day, the cleanliness of my uniform was at the year’s high. It was the custom to bring flowers to teachers on that day thus the school smelled like a botanic garden. Every year I promised myself that I’d be more serious, to smile less and make fewer jokes. Teachers did not like my smile or my jokes, always called me a class clown. Every year I failed at these goals. Thank God!<br /><br />This introduction has absolutely nothing to do with what I am about to discuss except that September has just begun and it has historically been the worst month of the year for investors. After looking at the data from 1900 to 2008, it is safe to conclude that September historically was the worst month for investors, period. Stock averages and median returns were -1.16% and -0.56%, respectively. Far worse than any other months. In fact, with the exception of June where median returns were down 3 basis points, no other month of the year had negative median returns other than September. In 63 out of 108 years, September brought negative returns to investors, greater than any other month.<br /><br />It gets worse: Returns in August were greater than 2% average and median returns in September were -2.29% and -1.44%, respectively. I’ll be honest and say I have no idea why this happened or what this September has in store for us. Maybe investors don’t like the end of summer and the first months of fall? Maybe if some of your stocks are hovering close to fair value you sell now? Or maybe if you were looking to buy a stock you wait a little?" (source: seekingalpha.com) </em></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361171117066574861.post-8848372172774836052009-09-07T15:02:00.000-07:002009-09-07T15:38:31.910-07:00Wallstreet Brokers And Their Fabulous Lives<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SqWFILBga8I/AAAAAAAABCI/Wkr0rkMkS60/s1600-h/wallstreet-brokers.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378851705408482242" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SqWFILBga8I/AAAAAAAABCI/Wkr0rkMkS60/s320/wallstreet-brokers.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>Some people seem to be insulated from the financial crisis...here is a look into "The Fabulous Life of Wallstreet Brokers".</strong> Ever thought about how those Wallstreet Brokers lived, while speculating with your money and burning it in the financial crisis? <span style="font-size:78%;"><em>In this 44 minute documentary you see the homes of Billionaires and multi Millionaires who earned their money on Wallstreet. But they don’t only have huge apartments and residences, they have their own private jets, luxury yachts and so on. Not even thinking about the small investors they made billions of dollars off of and enjoying their lives. And you - what are you doing now??? (source: documentary24.com</em></span></span></div><br /><center><object width="300" height="248" data="http://video.google.de/googleplayer.swf?docid=-6192002654905175683" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="src" value="http://video.google.de/googleplayer.swf?docid=-6192002654905175683" /></object></center>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361171117066574861.post-44247304377279028432009-07-16T14:56:00.001-07:002009-07-16T15:48:44.397-07:00Stocks-Buy and Hold and Hold and Hold<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/Sl-rT8zLAyI/AAAAAAAAA8U/hMark9XQdQ8/s1600-h/GlobalSavingsRates1990-2009.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359190440820802338" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 231px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/Sl-rT8zLAyI/AAAAAAAAA8U/hMark9XQdQ8/s400/GlobalSavingsRates1990-2009.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>The idea of investing for the long term seems to be kind of foreign to most investors, especially nowadays with the loss of so many people's retirement savings due to the global financial debacle over the past year or so...</strong>take a look at the chart at left (click on it to enlarge for readability) which shows Global Household Savings Rates from the World Bank estimates for several countries...Americans have never really been good savers currently saving at a rate of 1.2% of household income in 2009 (although we are not the worst) with France being the best savers at a rate currently of 12.3%. Long term investing even seems to be less so with young people today as they tend to invest more in the short term for a quick buck to get instant gratification that abounds with youth...but when viewed and analyzed over the long term (20 years or more) stocks never appear to lose money. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Here is a surprisingly informative article on this subject from Dr. Jeremy J. Siegel, a contributing editor from Kiplingers.com:</span></div><br /><div></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>"Buy and Hold? You Bet"<br />Over periods of 20 years or longer, stocks have never lost money, even after inflation.<br />By </em></span><a href="http://www.kiplinger.com/about/staff/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Jeremy J. Siegel</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>, Contributing Editor</em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><br /><em>Stock-market investors are an unhappy bunch. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index is no higher than it was 12 years ago, and over the ten years ended in May, stocks have returned a dismal -1.7% per year. So it's no surprise that investors wonder whether "buy and hold" and "stocks for the long run" are discredited concepts (see </em></span><a href="http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2009/08/can-you-time-the-market.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Can You Time the Market?</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>).</em></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><div><br /><em>The short answer is that stocks are still the best long-term investments. As bad as the past decade has been, there have been other ten-year periods during which stocks have recorded even bigger losses. Yet over periods of 20 years or longer, stocks have never lost money, even after inflation. Including the latest bear market, stock returns have averaged 7.8% per year over the past 20 years and 11% annually over the past 30. Nevertheless, the assault on buy-and-hold investing continues. Robert Arnott, of Research Affiliates, recently observed in a widely publicized article that over the past 40 years, even lowly government bonds had outperformed stocks. Just a few months later, though, events overtook that claim as stocks rallied from their March lows and bond prices skidded.</em></div><div><em><br />Brighter future. After periods of sluggish returns, stocks tend to regain their oomph. Stock returns over the past five and ten years have fallen to the bottom quartile when measured against all five- and ten-year periods since 1871. But history shows that after reaching such a low, stocks' average return for the next five years has been almost 9.5% annually after inflation.</em><br /></div><div><em><br />Furthermore, once stocks have plunged 50% from their highs, which they have done during the current bear market, investors have always been rewarded with winners over the next five years -- and that includes the Depression decade of the 1930s. In Dec-ember 1930, stocks were 50% off their highs of September 1929. Yet, over the next five years -- when the economy was experiencing the greatest con-traction in its history -- investors were rewarded with an annual return of 7% after inflation.</em></div><div><em><br />Value stocks. All the returns I've quoted reflect indexes based on market capitalization, the indexes that are used to measure market performance. But research has shown that investors would have done better if they had tilted their portfolios toward value stocks -- stocks that have higher-than-average dividend yields and lower-than-average price-earnings ratios. Even after the collapse of financial stocks over the past year (most financials fell into the value category), the Russell 3000 Value index has outperformed the capitalization-weighted index over the past five, ten, 20 and 30 years.</em><br /></div><div><em><br />Evidence suggests that investors may be able to outdo the indexes by pursuing an activist strategy that shifts into or out of stocks depending on their valuation. However, this strategy requires investors to sell stocks of companies that have done well and buy shares that have done poorly -- an exercise that requires a huge (and often impossible) amount of self-control.</em><br /></div><div><br /><em>But now there are new indexes that rebalance stocks automatically and have outperformed both capitalization-weighted and even value indexes. These so-called fundamental indexes rank stocks by their dividends or earnings (or some other measure of a company's worth) instead of by their market value. Fundamental indexes automatically sell stocks that move up in price beyond their dividends or earnings and buy stocks whose prices lag. Dividend-weighted indexes have outperformed value indexes over the past ten, 20 and 30 years; earnings-weighted indexes have done even better.</em><br /></div><div><br /><em>In the long run, stocks are still the way to go. And if you want to give your returns an extra kick, value-oriented stocks and fundamental indexes may be your best bet.</em></div><div><em><br />Source: Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine August Issue 2009</em></div><div><em>(Columnist Jeremy J. Siegel is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and author of "Stocks for the Long Run". He also advises Wisdomtree Investments, which issues low-cost, fundamentally weighted ETFs. </em></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361171117066574861.post-24776920653077784842009-07-09T16:36:00.001-07:002009-07-09T16:57:35.482-07:00Visa-2009 Explosive Earnings Growth And In Future<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SlaBZG69rEI/AAAAAAAAA6E/GmpfVUp9jCg/s1600-h/VISA.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356611075158420546" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 126px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SlaBZG69rEI/AAAAAAAAA6E/GmpfVUp9jCg/s200/VISA.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>Visa is a favorite stock of mine since I have been in it from its initial public offering back in March of 2008...</strong>here is another opinion on the validity of why you should invest in this stock now if you haven't already done so...<em>remember that Visa is not a finance company...it provides financial transaction processing...the more the use of "plastic" (credit & debit cards) by the general public worldwide the greater their business and earnings growth potential:<br /></em><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>"In the current difficult macroeconomic environment it is hard to find companies that are earning a meaningful profit, let alone growing earnings. But Visa has </em></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>been rewarding investors with explosive earnings growth and stock performance to boot.</em></span><br /><div><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Visa (NYSE: </em></span><a href="http://www.streetinsider.com/Insiders+Blog/10+Stocks+With+Explosive+Earnings+Growth%3A+No+4+Visa+%28V%29/stock_lookup.php?q=V"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>V</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>):</em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>"Headquartered in San Francisco, Visa operates the world's largest retail electronic payments network and manages the world's most recognized global financial services brand. Visa has more branded credit and debit cards in circulation, more transactions and greater total volume than any of its competitors. Visa owns a family of well known, widely accepted payment brands, including Visa, Visa Electron, PLUS and Interlink, which they license to customers for use in their payment programs. Visa came public in March 2008, after reorganizing from a private, for profit association. </em></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em></em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Earnings Growth:</em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>For the six months ended March 31, 2009, Visa grew its EPS 56% to $1.45. For the three months ended March 31, 2009 grew its EPS 82% to $0.71 on a GAAP basis. </em></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em></em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Earnings Prospects: </em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Analysts on average see Visa earning $2.81 per share this year (FY09), which is up 193% from the $0.96 earned last year (FY08)! Next year (FY10), analysts on average see Visa earning $3.34 per share, which would represent growth of 19%. High estimates for FY10 is $3.78, which would represent </em></span><a class="iAs" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal! important; FONT-SIZE: 100%! important; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1px; COLOR: blue! important; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: blue 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent! important; TEXT-DECORATION: none! important" href="http://www.streetinsider.com/Insiders+Blog/10+Stocks+With+Explosive+Earnings+Growth%3A+No+4+Visa+%28V%29/4786033.html#" target="_blank" itxtdid="8122108"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>earnings growth</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> of 35%! With a shift secular shift toward payments with plastic, solid </em></span><a class="iAs" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal! important; FONT-SIZE: 100%! important; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1px! important; COLOR: darkgreen! important; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: darkgreen 0.07em solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent! important; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important" href="http://www.streetinsider.com/Insiders+Blog/10+Stocks+With+Explosive+Earnings+Growth%3A+No+4+Visa+%28V%29/4786033.html#" target="_blank" itxtdid="9672897"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>revenue growth</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> and margin expansion, Visa will continue to show explosive earnings growth for years to come. </em></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em></em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Stock Performance: </em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>YTD shares of Visa are up 15.2%, versus a 2.3% slide in the S&P 500. Over the last year, shares of Visa are down 20.3% versus the 29.1% slide in the S&P 500. Visa came public in March 2008 at $44 per share and is up 37% from that price, versus the 33.6% slide in the S&P 500.</em></span></div><div><a class="stock" href="http://www.streetinsider.com/Insiders+Blog/10+Stocks+With+Explosive+Earnings+Growth%3A+No+4+Visa+%28V%29/stock_lookup.php?q=V"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>V</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> as of 09JUL2009: $60.44<br />+0.95 +1.60%</em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Volume: 6,654,013"</em></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"><em></em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"><em>source: streetinsider.com</em></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361171117066574861.post-72202071954926542912009-06-15T17:10:00.000-07:002009-06-15T18:00:51.993-07:00China and India: Investing In "Chindia" Again<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/Sjbs8n-pwoI/AAAAAAAAA2U/p2yDDG5Ub0w/s1600-h/china.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347722133817115266" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 133px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/Sjbs8n-pwoI/AAAAAAAAA2U/p2yDDG5Ub0w/s200/china.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SjbstUYAxZI/AAAAAAAAA2M/HL1F_izYzUs/s1600-h/india.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347721870856734098" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 136px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SjbstUYAxZI/AAAAAAAAA2M/HL1F_izYzUs/s200/india.gif" border="0" /></a></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>Well, it seems its time to start investing in "Chindia" (China and India) again; emerging markets are the way to go now it seems...</strong>here are 12 Chinese stocks to consider...<span style="font-size:78%;">for long term investing (the next 3 to 10 years):</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Two leading </em><strong>energy</strong><em> plays for both growth and income: </em></span></div><div><div><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/ptr/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>PetroChina</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> (NYSE: </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/ptr/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>PTR</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>)</em></span></div><div><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/cnooc-limited/ceo/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>China National Offshore Oil Corp.</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> (NYSE: </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/cnooc-limited/ceo/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>CEO</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>). </em></span></div><div><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/08/leeb-looks-east-to-find-energy-favorites/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Read the full post here</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>.</em></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><br /><div><em>Growth opportunities in the</em> <strong>online gaming sector</strong> <em>are the leading players in the Chinese internet gaming industry </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/ntes/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>NetEase.com</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> (NASDAQ: </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/ntes/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>NTES</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>)</em></span></div><div><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/snda/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Shanda Interactive</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> (NASDAQ: </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/snda/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>SNDA</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>). </em></span></div><div><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/08/gaming-gains-in-china-netease-ntes-and-shanda-snda/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Read the full post here</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>.</em></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><br /><div><em>There is higher risk speculation in the</em> <strong>biotech sector </strong></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/sva/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Sinovac</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> (ASE: </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/sva/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>SVA</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>).</em> </span></div><div><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/11/sinovac-sva-chinese-biotech-bet/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Read the full post here</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>.</em></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><br /><div><em>Don't forget the</em> <strong>wireless telecom sector</strong> <em>as a means of investing in China...current favorites are the two largest wireless carriers in China</em></div><div></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/chl/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>China Mobile</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> (NYSE: </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/chl/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>CHL</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>)</em></span></div><div><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/chu/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>China Unicom</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> (NYSE: </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/chu/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>CHU</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>). </em></span></div><div><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/11/china-expert-calls-on-wireless/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Read the full post here</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>.</em></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em><br /><div>For the more speculatively-inclined there is strong upside potential in a pharmaceutical research firm, </div><div></em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/wx/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Wuxi PharmaTech</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> (NYSE: </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/wx/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>WX</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>).</em></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> </em></span></div><div><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/10/drug-research-boosts-wuxi-pharmatech-wx/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Read the full post here</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>.</em></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Then there's the</em><strong> medical sector</strong><em>, such as medical diagnostics device maker </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/mr/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Mindray Medical</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> (NYSE: </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/mr/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>MR</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>). </em></span></div><div><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/09/mindray-mr-medical-diagnostics-from-china/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Read the full post here</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>.</em></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><br /><div><em>Others in the</em> <strong>healthcare field</strong> <em>are </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/npd/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>China Nepstar</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> (NYSE: </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/npd/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>NPD</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>), a firm that is changing the fragmented market for mom-and-pop drug stores stores to a larger pharmacy chain model.</em> </span></div><div><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/08/china-nepstar-npd-emerging-drug-store-chain/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Read the full post here</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>.</em></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><br /><div><em>And of course</em> <strong>life insurance</strong><em>, a growing market based on China's demographics</em></div><div></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/lfc/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>China Life Insurance</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> (NYSE: </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/lfc/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>LFC</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>). </em></span></div><div><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/09/demographics-boost-china-life-insurance-lfc/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Read the full post here</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>.</em></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em><br /><div>A safer route may be investing with global fund manager Mark Mobius, a "protege of Sir John Templeton."</div><div></em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/tdf/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Mobius Templeton Dragon Fund</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> (NYSE: </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/tdf/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>TDF</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>). </em></span></div><div><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/10/templeton-dragon-tdf-investing-with-mark-mobius/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Read the full post here</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>.</em></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em><br /><div>Another diversified stake in China through a mutual fund could be the </div><div></em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/chn/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>China Fund</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> (NYSE: </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/chn/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>CHN</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>), which includes companies in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. </em></span></div><div><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/09/china-fund-chn-assessing-china-from-within/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Read the full post here</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>.</em></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>In addition there is the diversified approach through an ETF. Play China through Hong Kong such as</em></span></div><div><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/ewh/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>iShares MSCI Hong Kong Index</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> (NYSE: </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/ewh/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>EWH</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>). </em></span></div><div><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/11/hong-kong-etf-ewh-set-to-soar/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Read the full post here</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>.</em></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em><br /><div>Finally, while </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/qcom/ceo/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Qualcomm</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em> (NASDAQ: </em></span><a href="http://finance.aol.com/quotes/qcom/nys"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>QCOM</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>) is not a China-based stock, the wireless technology company is a play on the roll out of a 3G network in China. </em></span></div><div><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/10/china-3g-iboosts-qualcomm-qcom/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Read the full post here</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>.</em></span></div><br /><div><em><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;">(Source: Bloggingstocks.com)</span></em></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>Now, here are 7 India stocks/funds to consider...</strong></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>HDFC Bank (NYSE: </em></span><a class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001" href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/HDB.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>HDB</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>) as the best-run bank in India.</em></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>ICICI Bank (NYSE: </em></span><a class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001" href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/IBN.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>IBN</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>) is an attractive banking alternative to HDFC. </em></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Dr. Reddy's Labs (NYSE: </em></span><a class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001" href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/RDY.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>RDY</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>), a generic-pharmaceutical company with a cost advantage and a global reach.</em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>Yes, those stocks now are at higher prices than they were in February, but interested investors may still want to consider new positions.</em></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em><br /><div>Infosys (Nasdaq: </em></span><a class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001" href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/INFY.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>INFY</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>), which has exposure to the economic troubles of the West, where the majority of its clients are situated.<br />Infosys is forecasting its first-ever dollar revenue decline, projecting a fall of between 3% and 7%. And while a weak Indian rupee has meant that earnings measured in rupees have risen, U.S. investors have seen their ADRs lose value in dollar terms. But given that Infosys' growth has been driven by its ability to decrease costs for its customers via its outsourcing strategy, growth should resume once this storm passes.</em></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em><br /><div>Then there's Wipro (NYSE: </em></span><a class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001" href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/WIT.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>WIT</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>)</em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>and... </em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>WNS Holdings (NYSE: </em></span><a class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001" href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/WNS.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>WNS</em></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em>). Like Infosys, Wipro and WNS are geared toward outsourcing -- Wipro in software, WNS in business services from health care to airlines. WNS is much smaller than Wipro and Infosys, so it carries more risk</em></span></div><em><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"></span></em><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><em><br /><div>Finally, a diversified fund approach could be Matthews India (<span style="color:#3333ff;">MINDX</span>) fund. The fund has a reasonable expense ratio of 1.29% and owns a mix of mostly large and mid-cap stocks. The fund was hard-hit in 2008 (along with nearly every other equity fund), but the Matthews fund shop is well-regarded...this fund is if you want broader exposure to India.</div><br /><div>(Source: Fool.com)</em></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361171117066574861.post-65370869316763717342009-06-15T16:45:00.000-07:002009-06-15T17:07:48.537-07:00Finance Explained - Check Out Rachelle O'Connar's Blog<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SjbeD7y1kdI/AAAAAAAAA18/EANIG-EUzSk/s1600-h/RachelleOConnar"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347705766720934354" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 175px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SjbeD7y1kdI/AAAAAAAAA18/EANIG-EUzSk/s200/RachelleOConnar" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>Ever wanted to get a succinct overview of general finance and finance-related issues? In these times of economic turmoil be sure to check out Rachelle O'Connar's financial overview blog...she does a great job of explaining the complicated and helping you be smart with your money...the link is: </strong></span><a onclick="return o2('finance-at-a-glance');" href="http://financeoverview.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong>http://financeoverview.blogspot.com/</strong></span></a><strong> </strong><div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Rachelle O'Connar is from Boston, MA. She shares her knowledge as it is related to finance. As she states: "We are all acquainted with the word 'finance', but still knowing about it a bit more would help us to gain more knowledge about our rapidly changing economy and its cycle especially its downfall or we can say 'depression' which we are facing presently."</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">Rachelle offers insights on various topics such as: Find out how health insurance works...choosing cash advance options...the benefits gained if you lease a car...mistakes made when trading an option...avoiding mistakes when investing in real estate...overview of a 529 college savings plan...and many, many others. Here is your opportunity to get informed and get with the SmartMoney crowd.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361171117066574861.post-65445378542378199912009-01-05T13:27:00.000-08:002009-01-05T16:24:06.824-08:00Best Fund Picks For 2009 Investing<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SWKG2hA1wFI/AAAAAAAAArI/eYcz8cL6Dtc/s1600-h/z_buckzology_blidget.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 121px; height: 75px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SWKG2hA1wFI/AAAAAAAAArI/eYcz8cL6Dtc/s200/z_buckzology_blidget.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287937183619334226" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Think the Bear market will be over by June 1st, 2009? Yes I do...</span>I'm not an investment professional...I'm just using a little common-sense and current economic observation with some other published professional advice thrown in for good measure...given the fact that the new U.S. President will be in office for six (6) months by then and things will be starting to get on track economy-wise, also considering that many employers currently surveyed have claimed they will start hiring again by mid-year, and historically speaking the stock market heats up three to nine months prior to the economy hitting rock bottom (some economists currently believe the bottom will be reached by 20NOV2009). <span style="font-style: italic;">Then take into account the late great investor Sir John Templeton's advice to "Buy at the point of maximum pessimism" and viola...this equates to somewhere between March and August (I'd suggest May 2009) is when one should make their play. Again, history has shown that the market in stocks moves up fast and far at the end of bear markets...so go for aggressive funds...here are </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">BUCKzology's Best Fund Picks For 2009:</span><br /></span> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Bridgeway Aggressive Investors 2</b> (<a href="http://tfn.kiplinger.com/index.php?ticker=BRAIX&page=stockTipsheet">BRAIX</a>) Houston,TX - long term record of wins, this fund lost 57% -- 5% per year better performance than S&P (18% more than S&P 500-stock index in 2008). Investors have received an annualized 12% return since inception in 1994 on the "Investors 1" fund which is now closed...but consider the same techniques will be used for this fund.<br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>CGM Focus</b> (<a href="http://tfn.kiplinger.com/index.php?ticker=CGMFX&page=stockTipsheet">CGMFX</a>) Boston,MA - lost 50% in 2008; long-term record for the last ten years 18% annualized return; average 19% per year better performance than S&P.<br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Loomis Sayles Bond</b> (<a href="http://tfn.kiplinger.com/index.php?ticker=LSBRX&page=stockTipsheet">LSBRX</a>) Boston,MA - lost 24% in 2008;a similar fund to this one (initiated in 1991) that they managed gave an 8.5% annualized return. </span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets</b> (<a href="http://tfn.kiplinger.com/index.php?ticker=PRMSX&page=stockTipsheet">PRMSX</a>) Baltimore,MD - lost 62% due to investments in Russia in 2008, but two new fund managers take over in March along with the input from 21 analysts.<br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Vanguard Primecap Core</b> (<a href="http://tfn.kiplinger.com/index.php?ticker=VPCCX&page=stockTipsheet">VPCCX</a>) Valley Forge, PA - lost 34% in 2008 but still outperformed the S&P 500 by 5%. The fund emphasizes stocks of large, high-quality companies.<br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vanguard Primecap</span> (<a href="http://tfn.kiplinger.com/index.php?ticker=VPMCX&page=stockTipsheet">VPMCX</a>) Valley Forge,PA - a fund that is almost closed to new investors is a near clone of Primecap Core; has an annualized return of 12% for the past decade.</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Clipper Fund </span>(<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/mutualfunds/overview.asp?siteID=mktw&symb=CFIMX">CFIMX</a>) Canton,MA - value-stock fund</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yacktman Fund</span> (<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/mutualfunds/overview.asp?siteID=mktw&symb=YACKX">YACKX</a>)Austin,TX - a mid-cap offering</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mairs & Power Growth </span>(<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/mutualfunds/overview.asp?siteID=mktw&symb=MPGFX">MPGFX</a>)ST. Paul, MN - quality blend-equity fund combining growth and value, some large caps</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meridian Value Fund </span>(<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/mutualfunds/overview.asp?siteID=mktw&symb=MVALX">MVALX</a>)Pawtucket, RI - mid-caps offering the growth and value style<br /></span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >(source: Kiplinger.com, ConsumerReports)</span><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361171117066574861.post-10729730062950632702009-01-05T11:35:00.000-08:002009-01-05T11:47:22.603-08:00Is More Money Really The Answer?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SWJjiHxRF9I/AAAAAAAAAq4/lTU6hCSA5aM/s1600-h/z_buckzology_blidget.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 121px; height: 75px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SWJjiHxRF9I/AAAAAAAAAq4/lTU6hCSA5aM/s200/z_buckzology_blidget.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287898350338774994" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /><br />"Joque Du Jour":</span></span><br /><img src="http://www.weblogcartoons.com/cartoons/if-i-had.gif" alt="cartoon from www.weblogcartoons.com" /><br /><p>Cartoon by <a href="http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/">Dave Walker</a>. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at <a href="http://www.weblogcartoons.com/">We Blog Cartoons</a>.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361171117066574861.post-78927508468580458512008-12-31T11:32:00.000-08:002009-01-05T13:11:38.933-08:00Madoff Investor List Gets Longer<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SVvOM7cLkLI/AAAAAAAAAls/Lmn-gtFlggk/s1600-h/z_emptypockets.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 170px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SVvOM7cLkLI/AAAAAAAAAls/Lmn-gtFlggk/s200/z_emptypockets.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286045309159051442" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Here is the list of Bernard Madoff investors as of 31DEC2008...</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/st_madoff_victims_20081215.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR THE MOST CURRENT LIST</span></a>: On 15DEC2008 it was announced that Madoff, possibly the person behind the largest Ponzi scheme in history, is set to release a more accurate list of investors today, but it supposedly will not be disclosed publicly as of yet. <span style="font-style: italic;">Madoff's number is $50 billion according to Madoff...at this point when totaled by others it comes to about $30 billion at this point. Those on this originally issued list (compiled by Bloomberg.com on 15DEC2008) read it and weep, most experts agree that investors will be lucky to recover 1 to 5 cents on the dollar:</span></span></span><br /><pre><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Client Total Source</span><br /><br />Access International $1.4 billion Company statement,<br />Advisors Bloomberg Data<br /><br />Banco Santander SA 2.33 billion Company statement<br /> euros ($3.1<br /> billion)<br /><br />Banque Benedict Hentsch $48 million Company statement<br />& Cie. SA<br /><br />BBVA 300 mln euros Company Statement<br /> ($404 mln)<br /><br />Benbassat & Cie. $935 million Reuters,<br /> citing Le Temps<br /><br />BNP Paribas SA Up to 350 Company statement<br /> million euros<br /> ($478.2 mln)<br /><br />Boston philanthropist $145 million Boston Globe<br />Carl Shapiro’s<br />charitable foundation<br /><br />Bramdean Alternatives 9.5 percent Company statement<br />Ltd. of assets<br /><br />Clal Insurance 3 mln shekels Company statement<br /> ($778,800)<br /><br />CNP Assurances 3 mln euros Company statement<br /> ($4.1 million)<br /><br />Dexia SA 78 million Company statement<br /> euros ($106.9<br /> million)<br /><br />EIM Group $230 million Reuters,<br /> citing Le Temps<br /><br />Elie Wiesel Foundation Undetermined Wall Street Journal<br />For Humanity<br /><br />Fairfield Greenwich $7.5 billion Bloomberg News,<br />Group Company Statement<br /><br />Fix Asset Management $400 million Company Statement<br /><br />Fortis Bank Netherlands 1 bln euros<br /> ($1.4 bln)<br /><br />GMAC LLC Chairman Most of its Wall Street Journal<br />Jacob Ezra Merkin’s $1.8 billion<br />Ascot Partners LLC of assets<br /><br />Groupama 10 mln euros Company Statement<br /> ($13.6 mln)<br /><br />Harel Insurance $14.2 million Company statement<br />Investments & Financial<br />Services Ltd.<br /><br />HSBC Holdings Plc $1 billion Company statement<br /><br /><br />JEHT Foundation Undetermined; Company Statement<br /> Will close.<br /><br />Julian J. Levitt $6 million Washington Post<br />Foundation<br /><br />Kingate Management Ltd. $3.5 billion Bloomberg News,<br /> Bloomberg Data<br /><br />Korea Life Insurance Co. $50 million Yonhap News<br /><br />Korea Teachers Pension $9.1 million Company statement<br /><br />Leonard Litwin Undetermined Spokesman<br /><br />Madoff Family Foundation $19 million Washington Post<br /><br />Man Group Plc $360 million Company statement<br /><br />Maxam Capital $280 million Wall Street Journal<br />Management LLC<br /><br />M&B Capital Partners 137.4 El Mundo newspaper<br /> million euros<br /> ($187.9 mln)<br /><br />Mediobanca $671,000 Company statement<br /><br />Mirabaud & Cie. A few million Reuters,Le Temps<br /> Swiss Francs<br /><br />Mort Zuckerman’s $30 million CNBC Interview<br />charitable trust<br /><br />Natixis Up to 450 Company statement<br /> million euros<br /> ($614 mln)<br /><br />Neue Privat Bank $5 Million Bloomberg News<br /><br />New York Mets Undetermined Company statement<br />owner Fred Wilpon’s<br />Sterling Equities Inc.<br /><br />Nomura Holdings Inc. $302 Million Company statement<br /><br />Nordea Bank AB 48 mln euros Company statement<br /> ($65.6 mln)<br /><br />Norman Braman, Undetermined Wall Street Journal<br />Former owner of the<br />Philadelphia Eagles<br />Football Team<br /><br />North Shore-Long Island $5 million Company statement<br />Jewish Health System<br /><br />Notz, Stucki & Cie Undetermined Reuters,<br /> citing Le Temps<br /><br />Phoenix Holdings 48 mln shekels Company Statement<br /> ($12.42 mln)<br /><br />Pioneer Alternative Almost all Bloomberg News<br />Investments of its $280<br /> million of<br /> assets<br /><br />Robert I. Lappin $8 million Washington Post<br />Charitable Foundation<br /><br />Royal Bank of Canada Less than Globe and Mail<br /> C$50 million<br /> ($40 million)<br /><br />Royal Bank of $360 million Company statement<br />Scotland Group Plc<br /><br />Reichmuth & Co.’s $330 million Letter to clients<br />Reichmuth Matterhorn<br />fund<br /><br />Societe Generale SA Less than 10 Company statement<br /> million euros<br /> ($13.7 mln)<br /><br />Technion 25 mln shekels Company Statement<br /> ($6.5 mln)<br /><br />Tremont Capital $3.3 billion Bloomberg News<br />Management<br /><br />U.S. Senator Frank Undetermined Bergen Record,<br />Lautenberg’s Bloomberg News<br />Charitable Foundation<br /><br />UniCredit SpA 75 mln euros Company statement<br /> ($102.5 mln)<br /><br />Union Bancaire Privee # Less than Company statement<br /> 1.26 billion<br /> Swiss francs<br /> ($1.08 billion)<br /><br />Steven Spielberg’s<br />Wunderkinder Foundation Undetermined Wall Street Journal<br /><br />Yeshiva University Undetermined Washington Post<br /> and statement<br /><br />Total (approximate) $29.9 billion<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >NOTE:</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" ># Based on 1 percent of assets under management </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >as of June 30, 2008.</span><br /><br /><br /></pre>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361171117066574861.post-45523567218857290582008-12-26T20:33:00.000-08:002008-12-26T21:15:02.696-08:0010 Best Small Cap Market Stocks For Long Term<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SVW5lBYEScI/AAAAAAAAAkM/0aZXu54JorI/s1600-h/z_smallcap.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 170px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SVW5lBYEScI/AAAAAAAAAkM/0aZXu54JorI/s200/z_smallcap.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284333783464823234" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Tim Hanson of The Motley Fool has suggested that these </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.fool.com/investing/small-cap/2008/12/24/these-are-the-markets-10-best-stocks.aspx">ten small cap stocks</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> are the way to go for the long term in this crazy market...</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">the returns don't look too shabby:</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><br /></span><table class="ed-table" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:arial;"><tbody><tr><th style="font-family:arial;"><p> <span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Company</strong></span> </p> </th> <th style="font-family:arial;"> <p> <span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Return (1999-2008) </strong></span> </p> </th> <th style="font-family:arial;"> <p> <span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>01JAN99 Mkt.Cap</strong></span> </p> </th> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-family:arial;"> <p> <span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>Hansen Natural</strong> <span class="ticker">(Nasdaq: <a href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/HANS.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001" class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001">HANS</a>)</span></span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">4,801%</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">$53 million</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-family:arial;"> <p> <span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>Celgene</strong> <span class="ticker">(Nasdaq: <a href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/CELG.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001" class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001">CELG</a>)</span></span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">4,167%</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">$252 million</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-family:arial;"> <p> <span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>Quality Systems</strong></span> </p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">4,002%</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">$26 million</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-family:arial;"> <p> <span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>Clean Harbors</strong></span> </p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">3,953%</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">$16 million</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-family:arial;"> <p> <span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>Green Mountain</strong> <strong>Coffee Roasters</strong> <span class="ticker">(Nasdaq: <a href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/GMCR.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001" class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001">GMCR</a>)</span></span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">3,786%</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">$19 million</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-family:arial;"> <p> <span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>Deckers Outdoor</strong> <span class="ticker">(Nasdaq: <a href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/DECK.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001" class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001">DECK</a>)</span></span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">3,374%</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">$19 million</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-family:arial;"> <p> <span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>Almost Family</strong> <span class="ticker">(Nasdaq: <a href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/AFAM.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001" class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001">AFAM</a>)</span></span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">3,122%</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">$9 million</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-family:arial;"> <p> <span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>XTO Energy</strong> <span class="ticker">(NYSE: <a href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/XTO.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001" class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001">XTO</a>)</span></span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">2,992%</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">$343 million</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-family:arial;"> <p> <span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>Southwestern Energy</strong> <span class="ticker">(NYSE: <a href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/SWN.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001" class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001">SWN</a>)</span></span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">2,911%</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">$187 million</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-family:arial;"> <p> <span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>FTI Consulting</strong></span> </p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">2,907%</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span style="font-size:78%;">$16 million</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"> <span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="smalltext">Data from Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's. Includes only U.S.-listed stocks with verifiable stock price histories on major exchanges.</span></span> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361171117066574861.post-68758011989069954522008-12-26T20:06:00.000-08:002008-12-28T20:02:20.772-08:00Best Stock Picks For 2009 Investing<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SVWsjICN8LI/AAAAAAAAAkE/EVS4SipoBtg/s1600-h/z_wallstreet.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 113px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/SVWsjICN8LI/AAAAAAAAAkE/EVS4SipoBtg/s200/z_wallstreet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284319457241329842" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >According to The Motley Fool newsletter that just came out, here are stocks to invest in for the long term in 2009...this is based on their assessment that these particular companies will do well in 2009 and beyond. So try these out if you dare.</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">This year's selections will do well as companies, and hopefully as stocks, in 2009 and beyond;</span></span><a style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;" href="http://caps.fool.com/?source=icaedilnk9950002">CAPS</a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >, the Fool's investor intelligence database will help you rate them as either outperform or underperform in the year going forward. Click on each company link below to get The Motley Fool's take on the particular stock:</span></span> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > <span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>The Best Stock picks for 2009:</strong></span> </p> <ul style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" type="disc"><li> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/12/18/best-stock-for-2009-agnico-eagle-mines.aspx">Agnico-Eagle Mines</a></span> </li><li> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/12/18/best-stock-for-2009-altria-group.aspx">Altria Group</a></span> </li><li> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/12/18/best-stock-for-2009-amazon.aspx">Amazon.com</a></span> </li><li> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2008/12/18/best-stocks-for-2009-cisco.aspx">Cisco</a></span> </li><li> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/dividends-income/2008/12/18/best-stock-for-2009-core-laboratories.aspx">Core Laboratories</a></span> </li><li> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/12/18/best-stock-for-2009-costco.aspx">Costco</a></span> </li><li> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/12/18/best-stock-for-2009-exxonmobil.aspx">ExxonMobil</a></span> </li><li> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2008/12/18/best-stock-for-2009-general-electric.aspx">General Electric</a></span> </li><li> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2008/12/18/the-best-stock-of-2009-google.aspx">Google</a></span> </li><li> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/dividends-income/2008/12/18/best-stock-for-2009-johnson-johnson.aspx">Johnson & Johnson</a></span> </li><li> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/12/18/best-stock-for-2009-netflix.aspx">Netflix</a></span> </li><li> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/dividends-income/2008/12/18/best-stock-for-2009-pfizer.aspx">Pfizer</a></span> </li><li> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/small-cap/2008/12/18/best-stock-for-2009-somanetics.aspx">Somanetics</a></span> </li><li> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2008/12/18/best-stock-for-2009-starbucks.aspx">Starbucks</a></span> </li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1