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- Will Citigroup Regain Its Lost Luster?
- Citigroup C announced Monday that it would be laying off 53,000 workers. The company has already laid off 23,000 employees earlier this year. Citi has lost 20 billion dollars over the past year and has had four straight quarterly earning losses. The company is on its third CEO in...
- External links 2008-11-19
- Why I Sold GameStop
- A year and a half ago GameStop GME was one of the largest equity holdings in my portfolio. For those who are not familiar with the company, GameStop is the largest video game retailer in the US. I had held shares of GameStop for over 4 years and was excited...
- External links 2009-05-22
- BankUnited Fails
- Troubles in the banking industry are not over and are just beginning for many regional banks. While the large banks have access to government loans and private capital, many of the regional banks must deal with the problem of becoming extinct. The latest victim is BankUnited FSB which is the...
- External links 2009-05-22
- Dividend Play with a Great Yield
- Every now and then I come across an investment that yields a solid return and has very little media hype. I found a smallcap dividend play about a year ago with a very healthy yield. The company is called Hatteras Financial Corp HTS. Hatteras Financial is a real estate investment...
- External links 2009-05-27
- CF Industries, Agrium Deal Offers Investors Two Potentially Profitable Plays
- I have been keeping a close eye on CF Industries CF lately. CF Industries is a midsized fertilizer maker with a market cap of 3.7 billion. The company received a buyout offer from Agrium Inc. AGU back in February of $40.00 per share and 1 share of Agrium stock. The...
- External links 2009-06-04
- Celgene: Solid Balance Sheet and Promising Pipeline
- I have been looking for a solid pharmaceutical company to add to my stock portfolio. I had owned Pfizer PFE previously but Pfizer appears to be a drug company with a dearth of drugs in its pipeline. The days of growth appear over and I am looking...
- External links 2009-06-09
- Waste Management: Boring, But Solidly Profitable
- According to Peter Lynch, author of One Up on Wall Street, sometimes you can find profitable companies in overlooked industries. Companies in these industries are often boring and do not garner as much attention as flashier industries like technology or energy. One of these industries is the garbage industry. The...
- External links 2009-06-15
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Should Thrive As Boomers Age
- Another drug stock that I really like is Endo Pharmaceuticals ENDP. Endo Pharmaceuticals is a midcap biotechnology company that is know for developing and selling pain management drugs and therapies. This company may be a good investment as a play on an aging baby boomer population. The generic pharmaceutical market...
- External links 2009-06-23
- Adding to My Financial Shorts
- I added shares of FAZ again at $4.70. This ETF has worked pretty well for me as a trade. I buy when it drops to the mid 4’s and sell it over 5 dollars. I am still not seeing too many buying opportunites for stocks yet. by Mark Riddix
- External links 2009-06-27
- Getting Bank of America's Share Price Recovery in Perspective
- I was reading 2 different analyst opinions of Bank of America BAC on CNBC.com. One analyst stated that Bank of America had seen a tremendous run up and would languish between $5 and $10 for the next few years. Another analyst stated that he thinks that BOA’s stock will double...
- External links 2009-07-01
- Market Downtrend Offers Opportunity in Supervalu
- Over the past 3 weeks the general direction of the market has been downward. There has been 1 or 2 huge down days each week that has offset any advances that the market is making. I don’t think the market will crash as it did last fall but it does...
- External links 2009-07-04
- Updating My Shorts on Financials and Tech
- I picked up shares Monday of FAZ FAZ at $46.80. The triple short financials ETF declined over 17% an was down almost $10 per share. I think most of the upside potential for financial is baked into the stock. I expect investors to take profits after earnings. I also...
- External links 2009-07-14
- Financials Looking Overbought
- Financial stocks have had a huge run up over the past 4 weeks. They have come off their 52 week lows and some have tripled in value. While I do not believe that financial stocks are going back to their 52 week lows; I believe that financial stocks are due...
- External links 2009-04-02
- Dow Shareholders Still Feeling the Pain
- The good news is that Dow Chemical was finally able to renegotiate its Rohm & Haas purchase. The bad news is that Dow still has to pay $78 per share to finance the purchase but did get Rohm & Haas’ two biggest shareholders to invest 3 billion dollars in Dow....
- External links 2009-03-10
- Blockbuster Flat Broke?
- Blockbuster BBI shares ended the day at 22 cents per share and trading was halted today. The shares dropped over 77% today amid news that the company is consulting with advisers about raising capital and restructuring massive debt obligations. Blockbuster is saddled with debt due to the spin off from...
- External links 2009-03-03
- Alcoa's Price Drop Is an Opportunity
- The current economic crisis is creating unique buying opportunities for some blue chip companies trading at historic price lows. Alcoa AA, which is the largest aluminum producer in the US, is currently trading at below $7.00 per share. Alcoa’s stock has not been this low since the early...
- External links 2008-11-23
- The Fall of Index Funds
- Financial experts have long championed the cause of index funds. They are viewed as the low cost simple way to invest. An index fund is a mutual fund that tracks the movements of a particular index. There are index funds that track the S&P 500, Wilshire 5000, total stock market...
- External links 2008-12-02
- Saving the US Auto Industry
- Congress is meeting with all three US auto makers to try and help them avoid bankruptcy. This is a necessary step because the economy cannot handle the bankruptcy of all 3 domestic auto companies at this point in time. While there are some issues that effect all three companies such...
- External links 2008-12-11
- Buffett's 300% Return on a Bid He Lost
- Warren Buffett appears to have failed in his attempt to buy Constellation Energy Group CEG for 4.7 billion dollars. MidAmerican Energy (MDPWK.PK), Buffett’s company, agreed to purchase CEG for $26.50 a share in September. Constellation Energy terminated this agreement Thursday and accepted an offer from Electricite De Franc (EDF) for...
- External links 2008-12-21
- A Tale of Two Retailers
- Wal-Mart WMT was not immune to the economic downturn as so many analysts had predicted. Wal-Mart saw its same store sales increase by 1.7% last month. Good news, right? You would think so, but Wal-Mart disappointed by falling short of analyst expectations of a 2.8% increase in comps. The nation’s...
- External links 2009-01-16
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