Welcome to the weekend after the worst week I can ever remember seeing in the stock market. I can’t do much to make you feel better about that, but I can give you a chance at $50 or $100 if you’ve got time to share an idea with the rest of us. Famous investors of […]
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Selling Loews Low … ugh.
Well, it wasn’t but a week and a half ago that I urged you to take a look at Loews — but with the fall in all financial and oil-related stocks, I need to sell my own shares of this conglomerate. I closed out my Loews position today, though I still have some exposure to […]
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In the few days preceding the last presidential debate between McCain and Obama (which was soooo boring … I was really hoping for more winking, personally), Louis Navellier continued his presidential-themed teaser ad campaigns. Last time around, he was promising that he had written the perfect campaign speech, and that whoever uttered it would be […]
13 Comments Read MoreSeadrill Punished by Oil
Seadrill continues to get punished by the collapsing oil price and the faltering global economy, though so far this morning it has fallen less than oil, and less than some indexes I follow. But it’s certainly not pretty. Seadrill has now dropped from being my largest holding, just because of the falling share price (I […]
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I haven’t written about Dan Denning’s stuff for a while — back when people still liked investing in commodities I did several pieces about his “Pilbara Profit Secrets” ad campaign for a bunch of Aussie resource stocks, but that particular sector is not setting off anyone’s drool reflexes lately … so the ad hasn’t been […]
7 Comments Read MoreWestport Catalysts Fading? Probably a sell.
The shares of natural gas engine maker Westport Innovations have, as you may have noticed, gotten clobbered along with everything else in the last month or two. Because the company is not profitable, and is a somewhat speculative play on an alternative energy niche, it has fallen even more than most — speculation is a […]
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When the world looks bleak, the skies darken, and the locusts appear to be swarming on CNBC, we can always count on one thing: Newsletter editors will be trying whatever they can to convince you that they see the way forward, or that they have a safe haven for your money. Karim Rahemtulla is no […]
41 Comments Read MoreReagan’s “Stimulus Dividends” — Greatest Income Investment of All Time
Now that’s a nice promise for these trying days — the “greatest income investment of all time.” Even Jim Cramer is yelling about investing in dividend stocks, and certainly for anyone within ten years of retirement the fact that we’ve now given up all of the past decade’s gains in the market is probably quite […]
9 Comments Read MoreStopped out of PIC
I don’t use stop loss orders for most individual stocks I hold, since they often get triggered by volatility regardless of what the company’s future looks like. But I often use them with ETF investments or trades, and my position in the PowerShares Dynamic Insurance ETF triggered a stop loss order this morning. I still […]
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The fact that the financial world is coming apart at the seams doesn’t seem to be slowing down the newsletters — I don’t know whether their advice is going to help you keep your portfolio intact while all about you are losing theirs, but they certainly think that the US investors is desperate for advice […]
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I started yesterday to look at the latest teaser ad from Keith Fitz-Gerald and his Money Map Report — the basic theme of this ad is that the sovereign wealth funds have tons of cash, and Keith thinks he can predict where that money will go. He teased three companies in that ad — the […]
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Here’s how this ad begins: “Wall Street Just Got a New Boss… “And It’s Not Paulson, Bernanke, Pelosi or Bush… “It’s a small group of 5 investors who now control more money than all the investment banks ever did in their heyday – and they’re using it at will… “Here’s how you “front run” their […]
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A big part of the advertising that comes out for Carla Pasternak’s High-Yield Investing is by way of their writeups on the “income security of the month” — I’ve looked at a few of these in the past, but it’s been a while, so now seems like as good a time as any to dig […]
12 Comments Read MoreDo you believe in oil?
The falling price of oil, combined with the massive deleveraging going on among investors everywhere, is really causing smaller oil companies to take it on the chin. It is starting to look like IF the world is going to return to “normal” in the next couple years, there are several companies that might be compelling […]
Leave a comment Read MoreSeadrill Shares Continue Falling — debt and oil prices
The problems at Seadrill continue — with the share price, not, at the moment, with the business. Shares are down more than 10% this morning in Oslo, and have been falling hard throughout the recent weeks of credit panic. The leverage that Seadrill uses to ramp up capacity and pay high dividends is coming back […]
Leave a comment Read MoreSeptember Idea of the Month: Buy Loews, Sell High
October 10 Update: I sold Loews, and can’t urge anyone to buy or hold it here. Did anyone say “no take backs?” I sold my Loews shares today, less than two weeks after writing the following analysis. They remain cheap relative to their “competitors” like Berkshire and Markel, but those two and so many others […]
8 Comments Read More“Power up your Portfolio with Energy” Elliott Gue
You may well have heard of Elliott Gue — he’s a pretty widely-read pundit on energy investment, which has, of course, been one of the hottest sectors of the last five years. He works on the venerable Personal Finance newsletter and also edits his own Energy Strategist, which I’ve written about a few times in […]
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