This is just a quick note on a stock that I haven’t written about much for years, but that I’ve held through a major corporate merger and restructuring. I’ve got a planned personal sale to tell you about from my portfolio – I am putting a stop loss order in for my holdings in Brasil […]

I’ve invested in and written about quite a few Brazilian companies over the years, and I own a handful of such stocks today — so with the Brazilian market taking a hit this year, I thought I’d take a quick look at those holdings. There are two Brazilian companies that I’ve profiled as “Idea of […]

I’ve got a couple things to share with you today — the first is the solution to a teaser from Luke Burgess that’s come out as part of his big “Inflation Nation” promotion that’s more or less in line with all the “dollar doomed” teasers that have dominated the newsletter business in recent months (including […]

I’ve been so overwhelmed with gold and silver teases, and have written about them so many times over the last couple weeks, that I was really prepared to jump on anything that looked a bit more like a “real” company (ie, not just a commodity play or a hyped-up junior miner) … so here comes […]

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 […]

In the time that I’ve been watching newsletter ads, I’ve seen precious few companies that have been “teaser favorites” of multiple newsletters. One of those is the Brazilian poultry and processed foods company. It was teased by Mark Skousen in February, and then by Tom Dyson at Stansberry & Associates in March … and before […]

This teaser is a very brief one, from Tom Dyson for his International Strategist newsletter. Dyson is known better to the Gumshoe faithful for his role as the progenitor of the 801(k) strategy that so many of you have found compelling, which was part of a teaser for his 12% Letter on income investing. He […]

This one came in from a few readers via email today, which is always delightful — but today it was even more of a delight, because here we have a company whose shares I own, and whose future I’m also fairly excited about. The ad is for Mark Skousen’s Hedge Fund Trader service, one of […]