Speculation vs Investment
Investment or Value Investing is which I believe is the most abusive word in using money to make money.A speculator is someone that buys something only because he/she thinks someone else will pay more for it in the near future, as opposed to an investor, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 04:06:00
Blog posts
(34) |
Videos
(3)
Stock Investing, Top Stories of the Week at Value Investing News
Over at sheep investing it is legal. I would say that it is earlier due to happen again ... on almost. Filed under: Newsletters, ETF Investing, Stocks to Buy, Recession, Best Stocks for 2009 This situation is part of a unique yearly report -- Top Stock Picks '09 -- in which TheStockAdvisors.com [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 13:58:05
Top Stories of the Week at Value Investing News
Here are the top stories of the week at Value Investing News: Eddie Lampert Pulls A Coup d’etat Over Other Retailers! ... + Greenblatt = The GG Formula A Stock Canidate That Walter Schloss Might Like! Stock Analysis: Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) Taxation of Master Limited Partnerships Poll: How will the stock market end in 09 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 22:47:39
$6 - $8 Trillion in Investment Losses for 2008
On NPR radio (I don't recall the exact source) and this CNBC article on How the Financial Crisis Impacts Your Retirement estimated investment losses ... , commodities, hedge funds, value investing, mutual funds, sector funds, real estate, etc ... all the losses go. Looking back, here's what worked in 2008: Investing in CDs, bonds, and shorting stocks [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 13:08:03
Austro-logic and the stock market
As a few of you have correctly ascertained, the question to which I took exception to the asserted "Austrian" position and instead chose the " ... judgments concerning future productivity. Competition in stock markets enables us to ascertain the value of real investment. Takeovers, mergers, and insider trading are wrongly maligned because [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 15:36:00
Why We Need the Oil and Gas Industry
Every large global corporation currently has a choice ... . One response is a strategy that moves investment away from low-value commodities towards ... gas will continue to be a significant part of our future. However, we can also agree that in order [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 11:39:17
Seth Klarman: Investing Against Deflation
Sorry for the thin posting recently, I’ve been going through final exams ... , hyperinflation, where people are afraid of commodity prices rising, to a total deflation in no time ... ? When we, as value investors, invest we look for margins of safety. But if asset prices are falling, the margin [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 15:38:59
Important Secrets of Choosing Proper Investment Solutions
Different investment options are available in the market. There is no need for you to get confused. Choose an investments solutions company to remove all the confusions. An investment ... of property, either in cash or kind, which has the potential to grow in value can be an investment. These days [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 01:13:16
Bookkeeping: Beginning Position in Life Partners Holdings (LPHI)
When I asked readers a few weeks ago for new ideas (any stock with a chart that was holding up) ... policies at a discount to their face value for investment purposes. The purchasers of life settlements ... down to it ($34) after peaking at $42 last week. On the negative side this stock has had a monster run [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 17:03:52
Dear Mr. Ex-KGB
Vitaliy N. Katsenelson, CFA, is director of research at Investment Management Associates in Denver, Colo., and he teaches a graduate investment class at the University of Colorado at Denver. He is the author of “Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range-Bound Markets” (Wiley 2007). ~~~ Dear [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 12:00:00
Running A Forex Demo Can Give Valuable Insight
Buying and selling currency is similar to trading stock, but there are nuances that make it stand out as distinct ... before putting real cash on the line. A good forex broker that offers fx trading platform options ... up in value, so does the investment. Since the forex trading market is rather fast paced [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 21:19:09
Lieberman Proposes Barring Institutional Investors From Commodities
Whether it comes to fruition is to be determined, but taken at face value, ... and index funds from investing in commodities is a Nixon-goes-to-China moment, a significant indicator ... that this will simply drive investing in commodities overseas. Perhaps, but funds regulated under [more...]
Date: 2008-06-12 05:14:27
120th Festival of Stocks - Who Wants to Become a Millionaire? Edition
Welcome to the 120th Festival of Stocks!!! In these hard financial times, ... Fund posted at Surfer Sam and Friends. MBB presents Review Of ETrade Savings Bank and Broker posted ... School Value. Investing School presents Adding an Online Savings Account as Part of Your Investment [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 11:00:29
Stock Views on HEG, Bharati Shipyard, Phillips Carbon, Mercator Lines
SKP Securities on HEG - Target Rs 319 SKP Securities has maintained its buy rating on HEG with a target price of Rs 319 in its October 31, ... level of Rs 135.25 and excluding the investment value ,HEGL is trading at 2.74 x FY09E earnings ... increase in labour and other operating costs. We are downgrading our FY2010E Target PE multiple to 4x [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 02:43:00
How Much Did Harvard Lose?
by Andrew GillenLost among the holiday shuffle was a piece in the Huffington Post (HT: Felix Salmon) ... physical commodities. Such "real assets" plunged in value, if they could be sold, much more severely ... : by investing in risky, illiquid assets (including shares in hedge funds who did same). Their ability [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 17:05:00
Investing in Gold
Investing in Gold Posted on January 8, 2009 (0) Comments In times of economic crisis, ... stock down, investing in this commodity helps stabilize your portfolio. The value of this precious metal [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 19:56:26
Live-Blogging Goldman Sachs’ Fourth-Quarter Earnings
We nominate this for the securities industry’s saddest sentence: “For the period ended Nov. 30, Goldman reported a net loss of $2 ... of long-term investing decisions…we entered into these decisions with a full understanding of fair-value implications…” 11:09: M&A, rates, currencies, commodities and asset management were [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 16:26:31
Live-Blogging Goldman Sachs’ Fourth-Quarter Earnings
We nominate this for the securities industry’s saddest sentence: “For the period ended Nov. 30, Goldman reported a net loss of $2 ... of long-term investing decisions…we entered into these decisions with a full understanding of fair-value implications…” 11:09: M&A, rates, currencies, commodities and asset management were [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 19:11:00
Pre-Market Down 1.7%
As of New York midnight and the start of Monday, it kinda looks like the Paulson equity bear squeeze is over: [ ... Pre-Market Data, Stock Market Quotes, Fair Value, Futures, Volatility Index, World Markets Information - CNBC.com And the TED spread: Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 04:45:48
Real estate-a great way to invest
A property is an asset which will always bring in good returns as the value of real estate keeps increasing with time ... . There are quite a number of real estate brokers who will find you the best properties according to your space ... in vestments will never disappoint you in terms of future profits. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 13:34:09
1929 2.0
This week's historic market crash, bailouts and bankruptcies is now being compared in the media to 1929. In light of this, former investment banker and Florida real estate broker Michael Lissack sent ... % of the future appreciation in the property valuing each 25% of future appreciation (above the current [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 18:51:14
Market Activity in early January
I looked at the number of homes on the market in New Canaan today ... , there were several different parties of buyers with their brokers waiting ... investment, you can not live in the stock market but you do want to live in a value priced home. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 22:10:00
Eric Bolling: "Oil Should be $75 to $80"
Watch the following video... So, how to play it? the tickers are (USO), (DBO) and the double return (up or down) is the (DXO).Right now, I find it hard to be investing in stocks. Financials are out, consumer discretionary ... . So, that leaves certain commodities and I think the most value here is in oil..Disclosure ("none [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 17:53:00
Weekend Reading: Work, Recipes, Quizzes, & More
Some quick links from my weekend reading: Cutbacks and the Value of Time OverTheCubicleWall is being offered a voluntary work reduction to 32 ... If you are a passive investing geek, you should know the names of Drs. Fama and French [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 11:36:36
I’m Investing - Now What?
The good news is that there are nearly an unlimited number of ways and strategies to be successful in investing and managing your money ... . Regardless of any sentimental meaning you may attach to it, it represents a commodity of value only. Tip #2: Don’t buy or sell from a broker on the last two days of a calendar month. If you don’ [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 02:31:09
What Are The Retirement Income Investment Options
For any individual one of the most important milestones in their lives is retirement ... to understand the benefits of some retirement income investment options that are made available today ... with your needs, inflation, currency fluctuations and other factors that could affect the value of money [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 12:29:30
Golden Ratios
Carolyn Cui reports: Precious metals ratios are far from a sure-fire indicator ... , gold tends to stand out as an ultimate store of value. Commodity investors often look at these ratios for clues, as hard assets such as oil, gold or wheat don’t enjoy handy investing yardsticks [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 17:38:15
Tenants over Dividends
The Moneygardener recently wrote an interesting post why he likes to invest in dividend paying stocks instead of investing in real estate ( ... . With companies I buy common stock for, I don’t know about problems until the over-paid management team has already made short-sighted decisions to maximize the value of their stock options Why chase [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 09:36:02
Rigour? In a blog?
Brad DeLong has an impressively clear (although, or perhaps because, a bit technical) piece on risk appetite and fundamental values of assets ... of asset prices are the money-metric values that the costate variables associated with the commodities ... for the limited amount of savings capital available in the world? If I, as a productively investing busin [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 03:23:44
Sovereign Wealth Funds Shun Global Investing amid Crisis
Only 12 months ago pundits claimed most emerging markets would be immune from the credit crisis engulfing the United States and Europe ... constituent of the four commodity indexes I track (CRB, GSCI, Rogers and AIG-Dow Jones), has tanked ... or Sovereign Wealth Funds. That picture is now dampened by rapidly compressing asset values [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 14:17:56
Fundamental Analysis (OXPS, rated BUY)
In looking at fundamentals, the stock has lost >17% of value in a small amount of time ... seems outdated compared with some of the other discount brokers, but when you look at what they give ... is discounting their potential growth. They are heavily investing in futures and opening [more...]
Date: 2008-08-21 15:58:53
Citadel's Year to Forget
Citadel's Year to Forget Posted by: Matthew Goldstein on December 31 Investors in Citadel Investment Group's two main hedge funds can take solace in the fact that 2008 has finally come to an end. Of course, that won't ease the pain of seeing those two porfolios lose about 53% of their value going into the final week of the year [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 15:16:13
Playing with my CityIndex CFD account
It's gotten a bit boring watching the value of my geared stock accounts drop further and further each day. And in the past couple of days my Forex trading with CMC Markets has also given back the gains ... investment companies that act a bit like a managed fund and perform very similar to the overall [more...]
Date: 2008-07-16 14:15:00
With Retirement Income Investment Your Money Doesn’t Retire
One of the milestones in an individual’s life is retirement ... with your needs, inflation, currency fluctuations and other factors that could affect the value of money ... set of interest rates when the CD’s reach their maturity dates. These CD’s commonly mature in pre [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 08:53:25
34
Results
