All Entries in the "Investing" Category
Google Will Learn that Open Ain’t What It Used to Be
Google really kicked up the rhetoric this week openly declaring war on Apple. However, what Google, Microsoft, and rest don’t understand is – it is not about having a front facing camera, multi-tasking or any other “do-hickey” the haters scream about. It is the total “Experience.” When I received my iPad a few days ago, I sent [...]
I’m Betting on a Palm Take Under or Bankruptcy
Palm buyout talk has been the buzz since their dismal earnings report on March 19. Yesterday, it reach a feverish pitch after Bloomberg News reported that the company has engaged Goldman Sachs and Frank Quattrone’s Qatalyst Partners to find a buyer. Its stock price is up 50% over the last five days as investors get [...]
Will Google Be a Major Player in Mobile Computing?
If you are interested in investing in the mobile internet then Morgan Stanley’s Internet Report is a must read. The chart below is one of my favorite slides from the presentation. As far as I am concerned, it’s the money slide. I believe that serious coin will be made by simply grasping its thesis.
The point [...]
The Buy and Hold Fairy
I think that everyone who has ever bought a stock has dreamed of buying one for a few dollars per share and selling it down the road for many dollars per share. The good old buy it, hold it and sell it at the top strategy. In spite of a 40% pounding last year and [...]
Do 401K plans still make sense?
Millions of Americans, unbeknown to them, are trusting their retirement to the luck of the stock market draw. I recently talked about this in my post 401Ks: Main Street’s Friend or Foe? I just stumbled across a great article from the Wall Street Journal that adds data to my intuitive thinking.
Boston College’s retirement research center [...]
It is Time for Wall Street Executives to Meet Bubba
Stocks ended a strong two-week run with a thud on Friday. The week started off with news that AIG had given $165 million dollars in bonuses to the very same people that had virtually bankrupt the company and ended with the House passing a bill to tax those bonuses at a 90% rate. No need [...]
Is Stocks For the Long Run a Lie?
I can’t believe what I just read. Mark Hulbert publishes The Hulbert Financial Digest a monthly financial newsletter tracking service. As of the end of February, the best performing newsletter in his database dating back to 1980 belongs to a guy who is 89% cash. Get this – he has been primarily in cash since [...]
401Ks: Main Street’s Friend or Foe?
After the market was pounded to the tune of -40% last year, most didn’t think that it could get much worse. Well it has. January and February of 2009 have the esteemed privilege of being the worst first two months in the DOW’s 113 year history. After two months, the DOW is off nearly 20%.
If [...]
401K to 201K – Next Stop 101K ?
Our hope of a better stock market in 2009 is off to a rocky start. January goes down in the record books as the worst January EVER. If the old adage “so goes January – so goes the year holds true” why are we playing this game? If you aren’t asking yourself that question – [...]
Look out Wall Street: Investors Are Getting Fed Up
Lifecycle funds are Wall Street’s latest concoction for the average investor. These funds invest in a combination of equity, fixed-income and short term funds. The funds use an automatic asset allocation strategy that becomes increasingly more conservative as one’s retirement date approaches. Since most set their allocation when joining a 401K plan and occasionally make [...]
