Archive for July, 2007

• The Dividend Aristocrats
  Eddy, July 31st, 2007 at 11:02 am

  S&P tracks its list of “Dividend Aristocrats,” these are S&P 500 stocks that have increased their dividend every year for the last 25 years. Here’s [...]

• Quote of the Day
  Eddy, July 31st, 2007 at 12:30 am

  Private equity firms are draining the capital out of our communities, and draining the lifeblood of our country. From John Edwards’ campaign blog

• RIP: Chet Currier
  Eddy, July 31st, 2007 at 12:14 am

  Long-time financial writer, Chet Currier, died on Sunday. This is from his final Bloomberg column: For one long-standing indicator of shifting moods in the stock [...]

• GDP Revisions
  Eddy, July 30th, 2007 at 2:02 pm

  One of my constant complaints about the government’s economic data is that it’s subject to endless revisions. Then the revisions are updated and the updates [...]

• Dow 14000
  Eddy, July 29th, 2007 at 9:13 pm

  From The Onion: The Dow Jones closed at over 14,000 for the first time last week. What are the contributing factors? Certain knowledge that crashes [...]

• Economy Grew By 3.4% in Q2
  Eddy, July 27th, 2007 at 10:20 am

  From Bloomberg: The 3.4 percent annual pace of expansion, the most in more than a year, followed a revised gain of 0.6 percent in January [...]

• Radio Silence
  Eddy, July 26th, 2007 at 11:59 pm

  I apologize for the lack of posting earlier. I’m at the Money Show investor conference in San Francisco. There’s not much I have to add [...]

• Possible Headline
  Eddy, July 25th, 2007 at 2:01 pm

  From the AP: Amazon Soars on Strong 2Q, Upgrades Or my suggestion: Amazon Now Down 20% Instead of 35%

• Guess This Stock?
  Eddy, July 25th, 2007 at 7:31 am

  Give up?

• Behold the Power of Wednesdays
  Eddy, July 25th, 2007 at 6:23 am

  Since I got so many e-mails on this subject, I wanted to revisit my post on how good Wednesdays have been for Wall Street. Going [...]

• What’s Up 551% in San Diego?
  Eddy, July 25th, 2007 at 6:15 am

  Foreclosures. Home foreclosures in San Diego County continued their troublesome upward climb in June, but analysts say the number has yet to reach a threshold [...]

• The Bond Market Says No
  Eddy, July 24th, 2007 at 10:09 am

  I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But [...]

• Earnings, Earnings and Earnings
  Eddy, July 24th, 2007 at 9:36 am

  After the close yesterday, W.R. Berkley (BER) reported operating earnings of 92 cents a share, 10 cents more than last year. The stock is going [...]

• Corus Bankshares
  Eddy, July 23rd, 2007 at 1:41 pm

  Ever heard of Corus Bankshares (CORS)? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Corus is a pee-wee-cap bank that specializes in making condo loans in markets where [...]

• Lindsay Campbell for Seasonique
  Eddy, July 22nd, 2007 at 4:56 pm

  I could’ve sworn I’ve seen this girl somewhere before. Oh right! It’s WallStrip‘s Lindsay Campbell promoting Barr Pharmaceuticals‘s (BRL) Seasonique. I wasn’t really paying attention [...]

• The Strangest Market Stat You’ll Read All Day
  Eddy, July 20th, 2007 at 2:49 pm

  Since the beginning of the 2006, here are the cumulative S&P 500 returns by days of the week: Monday 1.40% Tuesday -0.36% Wednesday 18.72% Thursday [...]

• Bond Rally
  Eddy, July 20th, 2007 at 1:18 pm

  Stocks may be down, but bonds are taking off. That tells us where all the money is going. The yield on the 10-year (^TNX) is [...]

• Looking at Gold
  Eddy, July 20th, 2007 at 9:22 am

  Here’s an interesting chart. This is gold priced in dollars (black line) and euros (gold line): You can see how the two lines have drifted [...]

• BambiTV
  Eddy, July 20th, 2007 at 9:13 am

  Lindsay chats with Bambi Francisco, formerly of MarketWatch, about Vator.tv.

• Three Buy List Earnings Reports
  Eddy, July 19th, 2007 at 10:33 am

  Harley-Davidson (HOG) reported earnings of $1.14 a share this morning which is a penny better than expectations and a 25.3% increase over last year. The [...]