Just a quick administrative note - any bloggers out there who read the site on a consistent basis and have a blog/website devoted to economics/markets/stocks etc please give me a heads up on your blog. I am going to create a new section in the left side of the blog “Our Readers’ Websites” and hopefully help you get some traffic.We’ve been fortunate to g…
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I have not been posting as much as usual. It has been a really busy time for me. I have a whole lot of blog posts that I need to release and simply have not had the time. Though in the next couple of weeks things should ease up a bit for me.
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Each Friday I highlight the Carnivals I participated in over the past week, along with any notable articles that I came across. For those readers not familiar with carnivals, it’s where personal finance bloggers submit their best articles of the week with one blog serving as the host. The entries are separated into various categories such as Investing, Credit, Debt, Budgeting, Frugality, Wealth Building, Money Management, Financial Planning, Insurance, Taxes, The Economy, Real Estate, et. al….
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Each Friday I highlight the Carnivals I participated in over the past week, along with any notable articles that I came across. For those readers not familiar with carnivals, it’s where personal finance bloggers submit their best articles of the week with one blog serving as the host. The entries are separated into various categories such as Investing, Credit, Debt, Budgeting, Frugality, Wealth Building, Money Management, Financial Planning, Insurance, Taxes, The Economy, Real Estate, et. al.
This week’s “Market Monitor” guest on the Nightly Business Report on PBS was Jim Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer. You can read the transcript.Host Paul Kangas asked Grant how the consumer is doing: GRANT: The consumer is hard-pressed, Paul. He and she have been
about the worst short sale in the history of finance. American consumers
have spent through thick and through thin, especially it seems thin. These
days they are very over extended and I expect them to do much less spending
and much more savings….
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Growing Dividend
As a spin-off of the successful Duke Energy, Spectra Energy Corp (NYSE:SE) has had a rather successful first 16 months in business and has recently declared an 8.7 percent increase in its quarterly cash dividend
on its common stock, from $0.23 to $0.25 per share. The dividend is payable September 15, 2008, to shareholders of record at the close of business August 15, 2008.
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by Michael Zhuang - gurufocus.com
Warren Buffet said: “Price is what you pay and value is what you get.” Wall Street uses the price-to-earning ratio, or the P/E ratio in short, to determine whether one gets what one pays for when buying a stock. Is this ratio just a myth? Or is it a useful valuation [...]…
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With tomorrow the July 4h holiday for those of us in the US, this week’s Five for Friday gets bumped up to Thursday evening. Here are a few things to chew on over the next few days, in between the cookouts and fireworks.
These are tough times for value investors. And the only solace for many of us is the fact that many of the world’s best value pros have been doing poorly as well. Forbes is running an a…
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Yesterday I gave an overview of the results for the 2nd quarter of the Income Portfolio I track on this site. Today I will do the same for the Special Opportunities Portfolio. First a cut-and-paste of the caveats:
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Week 48 performance of the mutual fundComments: The market continued to degrade this week, albeit at a slower pace than the previous 2 weeks of back to back 3% losses. Luckily the market closed early today because it felt in the last hour like a football team with a 1 point lead and we were just trying to run out of the clock before the bears made a comeback… in stock market parlance we were hoping the market would not fall back below S&P 1260 at the close and make a new low. We held… by inches. But a lot of individual names took a lot more pain, than what the indexes showed this week….
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I don’t like to waste space talking about the fictitious monthly report because by the time I read through the details I am generally laughing too hard to make a cogent posting, and why recreate the wheel when Mish does a full blown analysis but I do want to point out some of the funnier things this month (by funny, I mean pathetic/sad)…
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According to the Fast Money Trade School article, “All Or Nothing Options”, who is expected to trade binaries?
The products are expected to attract a broad range of participants, including individual investors, hedge funds and institutions, who have an opinion, one way or another, on future price movements in the SPX or the VIX, said CBOE chairman and Chief Executive William Brodsky in a statement….
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: In Darren Rovell’s post on Nike’s ?Air McFlys,? what Back to the Future “science” term did he quote?
For someone who grew up in the mid-80’s quoting my best impression of George McFly (“No Biff, get your dirty hands off her!” and “Lorraine, you are my density. I mean, destiny.”), it was all about the f…
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Since we are running low on cash I am looking at a few names that have held up in this abyss (shuffling money from the strong to the weak), to help raise some cash. In a real mutual fund I would hope to open the mail and see a whole slew of new cash coming in as investors see this is a “great buying opportunity” to get shares of Rising Tide Growth on the cheap 
but since this is a closed system once I am low on cash I need to find more cash by selling something. Or if I got a slew of panic stricken calls saying get me out of this market I’d need some cash to send to you. So I’d rather have it on hand then be forced to sell something into a downturn….
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Hah - thanks to a reader for sending this to me. I love the comment about “who actually executes these orders”. The answer is not surprising for blog readers - we just talked about them yesterday - it is their market, they just allow us peons into the sandbox. ;)(click on the small photo for a 3-4 minute video)…
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I am adding a new coal name here but unlike the others this one will (I think) only be a shorter term trade: James River Coal (JRCC) has dropped from $60 to $41 in 2 sessions, or about a 32% loss for people buying 2 days ago. This is a much more speculative smaller cap coal name unlike the type I hold in the fund for “investments”. It is unprofitable this year but should show a massive amount of profits next year as it is very u…
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Could be the day we have the panic; current S&P 500 1253. Natural gas finally breaking down - Ultrashort Oil & Gas (DUG) finally working, etc. Generals being hammered everywhere. Good things to finally form a bottom. It will be ugly if this continues but the type of cleansing we have been waiting for…. have puke bags at the ready.Financials ARE holding up (relatively speaking) as are retailers in general - so this is classic repeat action of previous “rotation” corrections. So a swoosh does not necessarily need to happen for market as whole since we are smoking out all the “hiding place” sectors, one by one….
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Some purchases this AMAlpha Natural Resources (ANR) at 50 day moving average $80s (down 7% today)Fuel Systems Solutions (FSYS) at 50 day moving average $28s (down 12% today)Gafisa (GFA) all support broken - buying near January 2008 lows in $29s (down 5% today)Intrepid Potash (IPI) - chart too new to find clear support near $53 (down 9% today)…
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In a lovely book “Investing the Templeton Way”, the author, Lauren C. Templeton writes on John Templeton’s value investing style.
“To tilt the probabilities of success in your favor, you should search for a stock priced exceptionally low relative to the earnings of a company that has better than average long-term growth prospects and better than [...]…
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I am adding yet another name to the solar mix - Energy Conversion Devices (ENER). The stock has now dropped from $83s to $59s in 2 weeks or about 30%. I deemed it too expensive (it is still expensive but it is all relative) at that point [Jun 17: Energy Conversion Devices (ENER) Now Trades on Par with First Solar (FSLR)] so we’ll start here with a beginner stake and see if we can get lower prices. If not, at least we have a toehold - this is our 5th solar name in our solar basket and enough for me in terms of “number of names”. I’ll simply add or subtract exposure by buying or selling shares in the names we already own….
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