This wee teaser comes to us from an ad for the Alternative Energy Speculator, which is the newsletter that came into being about a year ago and has so far been popping up like a Whack-A-Mole every couple months to push Westport Innovations and some solar power companies. And this time around, it’s a wind […]
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Barron’s Hypes W.R. Berkley
I can’t think of anything intelligent to say about the current political and Wall Street mess, other than that in times like these I tend to hunker down and slow my trading, and focus more and more on multi-year investments in companies that I’m pretty sure will thrive in the next decade regardless of where […]
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New teaser stocks from Byron King always get a lot of attention, both because they come boosted by the marketing might of the Agora newsletter empire, and because they come from the person who currently runs Outstanding Investments, a newsletter that has ridden the commodities boom to a very impressive record over the last six […]
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This is just a quick note to let you know about part of what Martin Weiss is trying to sell you as part of a subscription to his Safe Money Report (now there’s a loaded name for a newsletter, eh?). He’s offering all kinds of stuff that’s designed to appeal to people who are terrified […]
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Though they didn’t actually cut off his head and let him run around the barnyard, the Brazilian poultry and pork producer Sadia has gotten rid of their Chief Financial Officer. For very good reason: They just reported a huge loss of about $400 million on what sounds like it was foolish and unapproved currency trading […]
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This one comes in from the folks at Investors Daily Edge, in an ad for a new service of theirs called The Bond Trader, run by a guy named Steve McDonald. So you will not be shocked to hear that this teaser is about investing in debt, not in equity — lending your money to […]
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The last time I looked in detail at some picks from the Motley Fool Income Investor, it was for their top “Peak Oil Picks,” all of which were at least interesting companies even if they’re all down by 10% or so following the decline in oil prices. (The latest version of that writeup is here, […]
16 Comments Read More“The Secret of the Marcellus Shale” Matt Badiali
If you’re on the email lists for Stansberry or Agora or a half dozen other investment newsletter publishers, you’ve probably seen this ad — it’s for the S&A Oil Report, and it tells us that, for a wee subscription fee, the editor of that newsletter will tell us the secret that he didn’t tell Brian […]
20 Comments Read MoreAnother insurer buy — broken record?
OK, so this is starting to sound like a broken record — but I bought another cash-rich, insurance-based conglomerate that has a history of making good investment decisions. I picked up shares late this afternoon of Loews Corp. at a hair over $40. Loews runs its own Loews hotel chain, owns most of CNA Insurance, […]
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Interesting headline, eh? This ad has come my way a few times recently, in somewhat different forms, but the key company they tease is an interesting one … so I thought I’d share it with you today. This ad for the Sovereign Society service, which will cost you $49 a year, tells us that we’re […]
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“An evil tyrant’s demise offers you a chance to gain 12 times your money instantly — or turn five grand into $950,000 or more — as the coveted gas reserves he controlled finally get tapped…” I’ve spent a fair amount of time in the last couple years looking at the ads from Christian DeHaemer’s Crisis […]
16 Comments Read More“Bargain Buys as China Turns” Robert Hsu
I haven’t written much about Robert Hsu and his China Strategy newsletter lately, but back when China’s markets were shooting out the lights last year he was probably the most popular newsletter editor out there. This year has seen a reversal of so many different Chinese stocks, and a loss of faith in the China […]
12 Comments Read MoreNot to say I’m obsessed with insurance, but …
I bought a little more Berkshire Hathaway today (the B-shares, I don’t yet own a private jet). I’ve been thinking of picking up Berkshire or one of the other cash rich, insurance-fueled conglomerates for some time now, largely because they are poised, if they’re careful, to pick up some tremendous bargains as the market panics. […]
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Steve Sjuggerud, whose name I think I have probably spelled half a dozen different ways in the last couple years, has a new ad for his True Wealth newsletter — and it’s teasing yet another compelling investment idea with a made-up name and an incredible promise. Here’s how the ad opens: “Take 10 minutes to […]
50 Comments Read More“Another Bank to Fail: Gone Fishin’ Portfolio?” Oxford Club
Alexander Green at the Oxford Club has been sending out a series of emails touting not an investment newsletter, but his own recently published book: The Gone Fishin’ Portfolio. I’ve heard from a lot of you that this is of interest, though I haven’t read the book, so I thought I’d take a gander at […]
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I added some shares to an ETF today, as at least a short term position as I look at other possibilities — I picked up shares in the PowerShares Dynamic Insurance Portfolio (PIC). This is an intriguing index for one reason: It is essentially made up of all of the large and high quality insurance […]
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I’ve sold off some more shares to raise a bit of cash for the current environment, looking to add to some favored stocks and generally to reduce some exposure to a few of the riskier names in my portfolio. I have now sold off my entire holdings in Winthrop Realty Trust (FUR), largely because I […]
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I sold my equity holdings in CapitalSource today (I also covered my short call options recently, but I continue to hold some long call options for 2010). This is not because of any imminent problems I see with CSE, but simply because I think I’m going to see some better opportunities to invest in the […]
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Late this morning my position in the UltraShort Financials ETF (SKF) hit its stop loss and I sold the position — I had a stop loss in position at 8%, and sold the shares today at about $132.50 mnhjbv (that was an 8% drop from the spike up we had at the open this morning […]
Leave a comment Read MoreSeadrill Sinking Again — What to do?
Seadrill, which remains my largest personal holding, took another beating overnight in Oslo. They announced a big new sale/leaseback deal with Ship Finance Limited, which is more of the what they have been saying they would do. They have now essentially put financing in place for their entire newbuild program in place — future increases […]
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