October 2009
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Don't Weep for the Rally
Gross and Grantham quarterly letters, presented without comment.
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Bill Gross Nov 09 comment -
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Lessons from the Value Set
Originally published at FiLife.
Growth investors favor fast-growing, young companies which tend to be light on dividends and heavy on moon-shot products or disruptive technologies.
Value investors, introspective geeks of the investing world, are bargain hunters. They like to buy out-of-favor companies with consistent earnings.
Last week, value investors took center stage at the Value Investing...
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Who Will Protect Us from the CFPA?
President Barack Obama spent Friday afternoon stumping for the Consumer Financial Protection Agency.
The new regulating body, first proposed in June, would stand up for consumers in a broken world of financial regulation largely built on ensuring the safety of institutions and products.
The agency is for those “who signed contracts they didn’t always understand offered by lenders who didn’t always...
Sirius XM and Loose Options
Sirius XM, for its troubles and debt load, is supposedly working itself out of a ditch.
The stock, long a favorite of daytraders, has gone from an all-time low of $.05 to $.55 in just 8 months. That’s an 1100% return for the most meticulous timers. But just because the market likes to fling the company’s stock around doesn’t mean the company should do so.
A story in...
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The Wisdom of Twits
Always be wary of financial advice given for free.
Take this lesson to heart and then dig in to StockTwits, a start-up stock-talk site built on Twitter streams.
The site filters Twitter messages using stock ticker symbols (annotated: $IBM or $MCD) or general market commentary including a “$$.” In order for your posts to show up on the site, you must follow @stocktwits on Twitter.
To the...