Archive for November, 2005

  • Bed, Bath & Beyond
    , November 27th, 2005 at 12:39 am

    Okay, it’s time for me to start thinking about the new Buy List for next year. As it stands now, my plan is unveil the [...]

  • Q&A: Zimmer Holdings
    , November 25th, 2005 at 3:56 pm

    I truly enjoy your blog! I started reading it after the article in Barron’s and find it very informative. I am a holder of ZMH [...]

  • The Market Today
    , November 25th, 2005 at 2:43 pm

    The stock market had a half-day today. Trading was very quiet. Some holiday oriented stocks had a nice day. Apple Computer (AAPL) and Best Buy [...]

  • Gazprom Will Be Opened Up for Foreign Ownership
    , November 25th, 2005 at 2:22 pm

    My lifelong dream of owning shares in a state-controlled autocratic natural gas monopoly just took one step closer to becoming reality. The Russian “parliament” “voted” [...]

  • Venezuela’s Oil Industry
    , November 25th, 2005 at 11:42 am

    The Los Angeles Times has an interesting article on the Venezuelan oil industry. Three years ago, Hugo Chavez fired 20,000 workers from the state-owned oil [...]

  • Black Friday Begins
    , November 25th, 2005 at 10:50 am

    I love the smell of commerce in the morning: Target Corp. offered wake-up calls this morning from Kermit the Frog to entice shoppers to its [...]

  • Taser to Be Delisted
    , November 25th, 2005 at 10:45 am

    The Nasdaq doesn’t like it when you stop reporting financial results.

  • Google at $125 Billion
    , November 24th, 2005 at 2:39 pm

    Google (GOOG) closed yesterday at $422.86 giving the company a total market value of $125 billion. To put it in perspective, ExxonMobil’s (XOM) market value [...]

  • Happy Turkey
    , November 24th, 2005 at 11:52 am

    The Presidential Proclamation. Thanksgiving Day is a time to remember our many blessings and to celebrate the opportunities that freedom affords. Explorers and settlers arriving [...]

  • Frontier Airlines Files Shelf Registration
    , November 24th, 2005 at 11:29 am

    Yesterday, Frontier Airlines (FRNT) filed a $250 million shelf registration. This means that the company is looking to sell $250 million of bonds or stock [...]

  • Dubai: Do Sell
    , November 23rd, 2005 at 3:20 pm

    I’ve been thinking about what’s the biggest investment bubble in the world right now. After careful consideration, I decided that Baidu (BIDU) comes in a [...]

  • FactSet Research Systems
    , November 23rd, 2005 at 1:49 pm

    FactSet Research Systems (FDS) is starting to impress me. As you can tell from my Buy List, I like to find companies that are key [...]

  • The Elliott Wave
    , November 23rd, 2005 at 1:11 pm

    On Wall Street, there’s a cult of technical analysts who follow the Elliott Wave. If you’re not familiar with it, here’s Wikipedia’s description: The Elliott [...]

  • Krispy Kreme’d
    , November 23rd, 2005 at 12:31 pm

    Stocks are up again today. It looks like we’re headed to our sixth straight rally. I noticed an article in Business Week on the turnaround [...]

  • The Morning Market
    , November 23rd, 2005 at 9:57 am

    Today should be a very quiet day on Wall Street. Appropriately, Hormel Foods (HRL) announced strong earnings on increased turkey sales. Keeping with the subject [...]

  • The Baghdad Stock Exchange
    , November 22nd, 2005 at 2:26 pm

    Despite constant threats of violence, the Baghdad Stock Exchange has big plans: Bomb blasts around Baghdad routinely shake the trading room and it takes 10 [...]

  • Is Walgreen’s Too Expensive?
    , November 22nd, 2005 at 1:35 pm

    I’ve always believed that it’s better to pay extra for the dominant company in a sector than to go hunting for an undervalued second-tier stock. [...]

  • The Market Today
    , November 21st, 2005 at 7:09 pm

    Now this is a market I like! The day started off pretty slow for the market in general, and our Buy List in particular. But [...]

  • Investing in Micro-Caps
    , November 21st, 2005 at 11:24 am

    The best-performing size category of all stocks is the smallest of the small—micro-caps. I love finding cheap and unknown micro-caps. However, one of the big [...]

  • The Market This Morning
    , November 21st, 2005 at 11:03 am

    The Buy List is having a fairly weak morning today. The market is digesting the news of General Motors’ (GM) big restructuring. Personally, I think [...]