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- Intuitive Surgical Becomes a Sorry Story Stock, Red Flag
- Donald Johnson submits: Story stocks like Intuitive Surgical ISRG often soar to $350 a share or better from less than $5 in a few years, making the stock pickers who got in early look like geniuses. But by the time they top out, as ISRG did at $357.98 last spring,...
- External links 2009-01-09
- Barron's: Financials Weigh on Berkshire Hathaway
- Donald Johnson submits: When stock market gurus like Warren Buffett make bad bets and get caught in bear markets, their fame works against them because their stumbles are very public. This week's Barron's joins Bespoke and others that are highlighting the investment problems of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A). Buffett is...
- External links 2009-01-25
- Viropharma: Failed Bet on Orphan Drug
- Donald Johnson submits: Bone marrow and organ transplant patients won't get help from Viropharma's VPHM new antiviral drug, maribavir, which failed its phase III trials. As a result VPHM plunged almost 53% yesterday to $5.74 a share. One analyst values it at $4 to $5. Key graphs from Reuters: ...
- External links 2009-02-10
- Too Early and Risky to Bottom Fish for Wells Fargo
- Donald Johnson submits: Some stock pickers like to try to pick the tops and bottoms of markets, and bottom fishing seems to be all the rage these days, especially when it comes to the banks, insurers and other financials. Anybody who has tried bottom fishing bank stocks since last fall...
- External links 2009-02-23
- Moody's Warning Sends Wells Fargo to New Low
- Donald Johnson submits: Moody's has warned Wells Fargo WFC that its credit rating may be cut several notches, and this has sent the bank's stock plunging to a new low of$7.99 per share (the stock is currently trading at $8.12). Only a couple of days ago, the stock had rallied...
- External links 2009-03-05
- Using Covered Calls to Replace USB Dividend (Barron's)
- Donald Johnson submits: Barron's explains how to use covered calls to generate income lost when a company cuts its dividend, as many banks and companies have over the last couple of years. Since Barron's used US Bancorp USB, a stock I own, as its example, I'll use it,...
- External links 2009-03-23
- Traders Like Oracle Deal for Sun; Analysts Not Sure
- Donald Johnson submits: Sometimes long-term investors let their common sense get in the way of making a good trade, and, so far, that's what seems to be happening with Oracle ORCL. After ORCL announced that it is buying Sun Microsystems JAVA for some $7.4 billion, I and many...
- External links 2009-04-27
- Chrysler's Bankruptcy: Historic Changes for Markets?
- Donald Johnson submits: When will the stock and bond markets begin to reflect the huge changes in bankrutpcy and contract laws that President Obama has demanded and is demanding from Chrysler’s bondholders? After reading numerous comments on Chrysler’s filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, it’s clear that lawyers, investors and bond...
- External links 2009-05-01
Additional Resources
- -THE WHITE HOUSE: Pres names C. Donald Johnson, Jr. for rank of Ambassador as Chief Textile Negotiator.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-1 October 1998-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- President Clinton names C. Donald Johnson, Jr. for rank of Ambassador as Chief Textile Negotiator C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:240998 The President today announced his intent to nominate C. Donald...
- Research articles 1998-10-01
- New name, roles: van Dijk firm focuses on future. (Van Dijk Johnson and Partners) (Company Profile)
- A change in the partnership ranks at van Dijk, Johnson and Partners has left the high-profile architectural firm with a new name and a young managing partner. Effective today, Feb. 24, the firm's moniker is van Dijk, Pace, Westlake and Partners. The new nameplate partners are...
- Research articles 1992-02-24
- TEXTILE HEAD JOHNSON TO LEAVE FOR LAW FIRM.
- WASHINGTON -- Donald Johnson, the U.S. chief textile negotiator, is leaving that position on Friday to join Patton, Boggs, one of the capital's leading law and lobbying firms, as a partner in the trade area. Johnson, 52, a onetime Democratic Georgia...
- Research articles 2000-08-02
- Donald D. Johnson.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
- Donald D. Johnson of Hoffman Estates Prayers for Donald D. Johnson, 73, will be said at 9:15 a.m. Thursday, at Countryside Funeral Home, 950 South Bartlett Road at Stearns Road, Bartlett. A Mass will follow at 10 a.m. at Resurrection Church. Born May 13,...
- Research articles 2004-04-28
- May the best man win. (secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)
- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD is in the process of selecting a candidate for secretary-general. The two leading candidates are Jean-Claude Paye, the incumbent, and Canadian politician Donald Johnson. The OCED is a usefulThe Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD is in the process of selecting...
- Research articles 1994-09-10
- JOBS & PEOPLE.
- W. DONALD JOHNSON has been appointed group vice-president of DuPont nylon worldwide. He was formerly vice president and general manager of DuPont nylon worldwide. DuPont has also named GEORGE F. MacCORMACK group vice-president of DuPont polyester a W. DONALD JOHNSON has been appointed group...
- Research articles 1999-03-22
- Institutional Speculators Disrupt Futures Markets: The Evidence Mounts
- Donald Johnson submits: The Wall Street Journal finally is catching up on the investigation of the roles of institutional speculators in the cotton, petroleum and grain futures markets, and a careful reading of its page one story Wednesday shows that pension, index and hedge funds have been very disruptive in...
- External links 2008-08-14
- Speculators Bigger Players in Futures, Options Markets Than Thought
- Donald Johnson submits: Speculators hold 49% of oil futures and options contracts, much more than the 38% previously thought, The Wall Street Journal reports here. The impact graphs in Ann Davis' Aug. 15 story: The scale of the recent revision and questions about the reliability and transparency of data in...
- External links 2008-08-15
- Prudential Looks Like a Buy and Promising Covered Call
- Donald Johnson submits: Prudential Financial PRU is being recommended by Barron's, Morningstar.com and securities analysts as a good buy. The stock closed Friday at $73.71 a share. Barron's quotes analysts who think it will reach $90 to $108, and Morningstar estimates its fair value is $91. It suggests buying the...
- External links 2008-09-02
- Berkshire Hathaway's Top Performer Over Last 3 Years: Union Pacific
- Donald Johnson submits: Union Pacific Corp. UNP has performed the best over the last three years of the 39 stocks owned by Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), which has benefitted from the stock picking of the famous investment guru, Warren Buffett. UNP's total returns over the last three years have averaged...
- External links 2008-09-08
- Prudential Looks Like a Buy
- Donald Johnson submits: Prudential Financial PRU is being recommended by Barron's magazine, Morningstar.com and securities analysts as a good buy. The stock closed Friday at $80.59 a share. Barron's quotes analysts who think it will reach $90 to $108, and Morningstar estimates its fair value is $91. It...
- External links 2008-09-13
- Will The Bailout Create New Fannies and Freddies?
- Donald Johnson submits: The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 could turn into a massive bailout program for municipalities and counties that have seen their revenues “disrupted by the current market turmoil,” and it could create new Fannie Maes FNM and Freddie Macs FRE. And if passed as written...
- External links 2008-09-29
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