Stocks
Ever since the iPhone became the must have gadget and was followed up by an even more impressive iPhone 2 and 3, people have been walking into my office declaring that they have bought Apple stock, or are going to buy Apple stock. The reasoning is almost always the same. The products that Apple makes [...]
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The SEC released an interesting item today. It’s a two and a half page "bulletin" entitled Investor Bulletin: Trading Basics. Ironically, anyone who knows enough about the stock market to know about the investor education materials offered by the SEC probably already knows everything included in the PDF file. Be that as it may, if [...]
Not long ago, with the world abuzz about the new Apple iPhone and the success of the Apple iPad, we looked into whether or not Apple stock is a good investment. While the company is doing very well, and the news of its iPhone 4 being carried on Verizon starting in February making investors and [...]
Throughout the financial crisis and subsequent bailout of the U.S. banking system, the issue has been one of Wall Street versus Main Street. That is, the idea that greedy bankers, investment bankers, and Wall Street traders duped unsophisticated Americans into mortgages that they could not afford and then left them hanging when things went bad. [...]
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People are always asking me if I think certain stocks are a good investment. There is a flaw in the question, but we’ll get to that in a minute. Right now, let’s get right to the real question people are always asking me these days. Is Apple Stock a good investment? What people mean when [...]
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IBM released their quarterly earnings. As is customary, the company announced various financial numbers like how much it earned per share and how much revenue it generated for the quarter, and so on. As is customary for IBM, the company also announced yet another giant share repurchase using shareholder money to buyback IBM shares of [...]
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Now that the new Facebook movie is coming out, even more people are going to be clamoring for information about just what Facebook is, what the Facebook company is like, and, of course, how to invest in Facebook. The catch is, there is no Facebook. Not a Facebook company you can invest in at least. [...]
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There are plenty of other things Yahoo gets from buying Associated Content, not the least of which is a big fat swath of Internet real estate that ranks obscenely high in Google search results and Bing search results. A great deal of the traffic generated from these high ranking searches is monetized via, you guessed it, Google AdSense which pays content publishers based upon ads placed by Google on those websites. Yahoo, can now switch out those Google Ads and replace them with their own Yahoo Ads.
Is it good news that all of those big banks are repaying their government bailout funds. Are the TARP repaying bank stocks good investments right now?
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Ok, here it comes. After the government released the results of its stress tests, banks are scrambling to come up with ways to raise huge amounts. It seems that the government money that was a much vaunted and absolutely necessary lifeline to banks has become tainted now that it comes with, horror of horror, strings [...]
