Stock Quotes

DJIA10465.94  chart-1.22
NASDAQ2254.70  chart+3.01
S&P 5001101.60  chart+0.07
2010-07-30 16:02

Here’s What Insider Trading Looks Like

Alright, despite what the SEC or anyone else tells you, insider trading is quite prevalent in today’s financial markets.  In fact, if you’re paying attention and know what to look for you can probably spot it yourself.  

Yesterday, I was keeping an eye on shares of Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) when I noticed something odd. [...]

An Interesting Factoid About Credit

The word ”credit” is actually derived from the Latin word ”credere”, which means “to believe” or “to entrust”.

As you already know our entire economic system is based on credit, or put in other terms… the belief that contracts will be honored, loans will be repaid and the entire system in general will continue functioning as it should.  When the [...]

Apple Needs A Lesson On Corporate Governance

As you may have already heard Apple announced the other day that Steve Jobs will be taking a leave of absence from his CEO position while he battles health problems.  First and foremost, I feel sorry for Steve Jobs and wish him good luck with his health problems.  The man is a great leader and [...]

Cramer Talks About Ultra Short ETF’s

In my previous post I talked about the dangers of leveraged ETF’s. As a follow up to that post here is a video of Cramer discussing these products…

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How Much Is A Billion?

I was reading a forum totally unrelated to investing today (Cigar Aficionado if you must know), and someone posted the joke below.  I just thought it was funny considering all the politicians blurting out how many billions are needed for this bailout… and that stimulus plan… and that bridge to nowhere… well, you get the [...]

Obama’s Stimulus Plan To Include Tax Cuts

The News

President-elect Barack Obama announced today that his economic stimulus package could include up to $300 billion in tax cuts.  The announcement came as a pleasant surprise to some Republican lawmakers, who previously thought the stimulus would consist mainly of infrastructure investments.  Many believe this was a smart political move by Obama, since most Republicans [...]

Quote Of The Week 01/04/09

 

                                        ”Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon.”

                                               -Peter [...]