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Are we experiencing massive deflation?? 07/24/08   —  Filed under: Forecasts, Indices, Commodities, Oil, S and P 500, DJIA, RecessionThere was very interesting post yesterday by Professor Mark Perry of the University of Michigan's School of Management. While we've all been coping with rising prices at the pump and at the supermarket, he's got another wa...
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Pimco's Bill Gross likes U.S. dollar over euro 07/15/08   —  Filed under: International markets, Forecasts, S and P 500, DJIA, Federal ReserveInvestors have watched the precipitous fall in the U.S. dollar over the past few years with trepidation. Investors in Israeli stocks trading in the U.S. have witnessed the once-lowly shekel dominate the dollar (and most ...
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TYC   While market has lost its fire, arson is on the rise 07/07/08   —  Filed under: International markets, Industry, Housing, Technology, RecessionI don't know about you, but I'm tired of watching all the red on the screen. Everyday we're faced with doomsday predictions facing the real estate market, the credit crunch, rising inflation, natural disasters, and my favorit...
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Investing in Euro 2008 (and Swiss punctuality) 05/27/08   —  Filed under: International markets, Products and services, S and P 500You can say a lot about the Swiss (sorry Mom!), but at least they are always on time. There is a great article over on the BBC that details Switzerland's obsession with time. Everywhere you turn in Switzerland, there's a watch, a c...
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CN   CHU   China Mobile drops as China restructures telecom industry 05/27/08   —  Filed under: International markets, China, China Mobile Limited (CHL), TechnologyAs China continues its massive economic expansion, the country is in a continuous state of flux. According to the New York Times, China has requested its six telecommunication firms to consolidate their assets, effective...
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BA   LMT   Finmeccanica buys DRS as foreign firms seek U.S. defense contracts 05/13/08   —  Filed under: International markets, Deals, Boeing Co (BA), Lockheed Martin (LMT)According to an article on Bloomberg, "European defense contractors have sought work and acquisitions in the U.S., where military spending has grown faster than in their home markets. BAE Systems Plc, Europe's largest wea...
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Graphic_rating_buy FSLR   Graphic_rating_buy JASO   Investors looking for broad exposure to solar getting TANned 05/13/08   —  Filed under: China, Indices, Mutual funds, Commodities, Oil, Initial public offerings, Stocks to BuyEveryone is talking about solar. Whether you believe that solar energy will somehow displace an oil-driven economy or not (I don't), some of these stocks like First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR) and JA Solar (N...
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X   MOS   Piggybacking the pros: CGM Focus Fund 04/13/08   —  Filed under: Mutual funds, U.S. Steel (X), Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT)This market is tough. Pros and novices alike are having a tough time. Particularly in a down market, a market commentators like to call a ""stock picker's market," I find it illustrative to dig deeper into the holdings of th...
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AMR   American back in the air 04/13/08   —  Filed under: Industry, Consumer experience, AMR Corp (AMR)American Airlines, a subsidiary of AMR Corp. (NYSE: AMR), has announced that it received the green light from aviation officials to return all of its 300 grounded jets to service. The jets were temporarily grounded as the Federal Aviation Admi...
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WM   Washington Mutual shoring up its balance sheet with investment 04/08/08   —  Filed under: Forecasts, Deals, Washington Mutual (WM)Fellow BloggingStocks contributor, Aaron Katsman, and I were discussing the pros and cons of investing in high-yield bonds this morning. You know, those types of risky bonds that pay a pretty good yield in return for investors lending a risky compa...
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VZ   GILT   In a down market it feels good to get one M&A right 04/07/08   —  Filed under: Deals, Verizon Communications (VZ), Technology, IsraelReaders of IsraelNewsletter.com know that one of the Israeli firms we follow is Gilat Satellite (NASDAQ: GILT). In fact, my colleague Aaron Katzman and I have featured Gilat here on BloggingStocks and gave a synopsis of what we felt w...
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NVS   NSRGY   Novartis buying Nestle's chunk in Alcon 04/07/08   —  Filed under: International markets, Deals, Novartis AG ADS (NVS)Just announced this morning, global drug manufacturer Novartis (NYSE: NVS) is offering to buy a minority stake in the world's largest eye-care firm, Alcon (NYSE: ACL), by buying the stake from food conglomerate Nestle (OTC: NSRGY). Essen...
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RIMM   Madonna drives BlackBerry earnings 04/03/08   —  Filed under: Earnings reports, Forecasts, Research in Motion (RIMM), Smartphones, TechnologyResearch in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), the company behind the super popular BlackBerry messaging device, delivered strong forecasts that topped what analysts were expecting. In spite of what many fear to be a very...
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WMT   AAPL   Yael Naim helps land Apple at the top of the charts 04/03/08   —  Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Wal-Mart (WMT)As a family, we try to sit down together every night for dinner. It's a small thing, but it's the only time all day that the seven of us can both talk and listen. I walk in from work listening to my iPod and the kids ask me, "Whattya listening to?". The an...
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Angels guarding large investment sums in new startups 04/01/08   —  Filed under: Private equityWhile I spend most of my time looking for the next Google, Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) amongst public companies, I have friends who pursue similar goals but at different stages of company growth. They're venture capitalists. They get to bet OPM (Other Peoples' Money) on finding the...
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ALVR   GOOG   Is you is or is you ain't WiMAX 04/01/08   —  Filed under: International markets, Internet, Google (GOOG), Next big thing, Sprint Nextel Corp (S), Smartphones, Technology, IsraelI've focused some of my writing and research on these pages on the hype surrounding WiMAX, an emerging telecommunications technology that could make broadband wireless a...
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Pair trade: Going long bankruptcy and short housing 03/31/08   —  Filed under: Personal finance, Housing, RecessionWhile the overall numbers of those American homeowners whose homes are getting foreclosed may be around -- to use Jim Cramer's statistic -- 1 in 550, I have to assume there are a lot more people getting closer to this point. When incomes are somewhat s...
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GOOG   ORCL   For bold investors: Barron's thinks it's time to leg into technology stocks 03/31/08   —  Filed under: Internet, Google (GOOG), Oracle Corp (ORCL), Technology, RecessionSpeaking to friends, the $1 trillion question that keeps arising is "when do we start buying?" Astute investors, they've certainly lightened up on their exposure to stocks over the past few months and have cash sitting on ...
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EEM   IWF   Dow 16,000? C'mon! 03/28/08   —  Filed under: Newspapers, Indices, Mutual funds, Technical Analysis, S and P 500, DJIAMark Hulbert at MarketWatch wrote about influential investment newsletter editor, Richard Band's outlandish forecast that the Dow Jones Industrial Average may end the year at 16,000. This very bullish estimate of a 3...
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Yale-grad takes over at Harvard's $35 billion endowment 03/28/08   —  Filed under: Management, Private equity, Mutual funds, Headline news, S and P 500In fascinating endowment news yesterday, Harvard University turned to one of its former investment stars to take the helm of the Ivy League's biggest endowment of $35 billion.Currently chief investment officer at Wellesl...
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