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    Friday, July 18, 2008 Financial Reporting Follies? (1 click)
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July 18, 2008 at 8:33 am ET Sometimes it's hard to know why the stock market rose or fell in a given day. Yesterday, it wasn't. The main reasons for Thursday's rally were a drop in oil prices (prices had fallen $15 ... (more) From Investing Insights - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 18, 2008 at 8:33 am ET Sometimes it's hard to know why the stock market rose or fell in a given day. Yesterday, it wasn't. The main reasons for Thursday's rally were a drop in oil prices (prices had fallen $15 ... (more) Thursday, July 17, 2008 From Investing Insights - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 3:33 pm ET United Technologies (UTX) shares jumped 5.9% Thursday after a solid earnings report.
For weeks, many investors have been worried that a slowdown in overseas economies could hurt big U.S. exporters. (See "A World of Woe ... (more) Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Off Balance Sheet Items - FASB is amending the disclosure, another new 'must know' vocabulary list (1 click)
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July 16, 2008 at 9:22 am ET Overview:
It looks like there is going to be another new vocabulary list come November, and its impact, for better and for worse, may rank up there with FAS 157. Specifically, the FASB is planning ... (more) From Investing Insights - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 9:04 am ET If you invest or trade in individual stocks, how much time do you spend on research before you buy?
Yesterday I was talking to Ron Sweet, the vice president of equity investments at asset manager USAA. ... (more) Tuesday, July 15, 2008 From Investing Insights - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 15, 2008 at 12:57 pm ET Having been in Europe not too long ago, I witnessed firsthand the ridiculously little I could get for my Ben Franklins over there. But after hearing Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony today, all I ... (more) From Investing Insights - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 15, 2008 at 10:17 am ET David Tice, manager of the $1.2 billion Prudent Bear Fund, used to be one of the fund industry’s biggest outliers. In fact, just a few weeks ago he told BusinessWeek that contrarian investing can be ... (more) Monday, July 14, 2008 Thoughts on a Volatile Day (13 clicks)
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July 14, 2008 at 6:22 pm ET So many things happening in the financial markets today! Not that you could tell by looking at the closing prices of major stock indexes, which after a volatile session ended the day narrowly lower. (The ... (more) Friday, July 11, 2008 From Investing Insights - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 11, 2008 at 8:33 am ET In May I blogged about BW colleague Peter Coy's fascinating look at how the U.S. economic slowdown is hurting men much more than women. He pointed out that adult women had gained almost 300,000 jobs ... (more) Thursday, July 10, 2008 From Investing Insights - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 10, 2008 at 12:18 pm ET A couple of weeks ago, super-star mutual fund manager Jean-Marie Eveillard of First Eagle funds mentioned that he'd hired a successor but couldn't name the name yet. Well, now the name is out and it's ... (more) Tuesday, July 8, 2008 From Investing Insights - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 8, 2008 at 4:48 pm ET John Templeton, the philanthropist and legendary investor, died today. It’s difficult to take a comprehensive look at a man who squeezed a lot of life into 95 years, so I'll focus on Templeton the investor:
1. ... (more) Why Investors Fear 'Bear Markets' (2 clicks)
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July 8, 2008 at 10:18 am ET Stocks are just barely in an official bear market, a condition described as a 20% decline from the recent high. As I type this -- on the morning of July 8 -- the S&P 500 ... (more) Thursday, July 3, 2008 From Investing Insights - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 3, 2008 at 3:03 pm ET A week ago the financial industry was getting very worried about its own prospects. Bank after bank seemed to be running short of cash as their stock prices plunged, making it harder to raise capital. ... (more) Wednesday, July 2, 2008 Beware of Stocks Under $10 (1 click)
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July 2, 2008 at 12:23 pm ET A story today from BW colleague Karyn McCormack makes an interesting observation: There are a lot of brand name stocks trading below $10 these days. If your share price is under $10, that makes you ... (more) From Investing Insights - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 2, 2008 at 11:33 am ET So far, it's been a relatively quiet week on Wall Street. But the calm is deceptive because the market is going through a crucial quarterly waiting period, right after the end of the quarter but ... (more) Tuesday, July 1, 2008 CIT Gets the Subprime Monkey Off Its Back (11 clicks)
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July 1, 2008 at 5:41 pm ET For some firms that dabbled in real-estate lending, the stock market’s advice seems to be: "Run away at any cost."
As CIT Group (CIT) and H&R Block (HRB) demonstrate, investors are rewarding once-diversified companies that ... (more) From Investing Insights - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 1, 2008 at 3:48 pm ET An update to my post on CIT Group below: Thanks to the Bespoke Investment Group blog, I learn that Edward Lampert -- who some have hoped would be his generation's Warren Buffett -- is a ... (more) Standout Stocks in the First Half (4 clicks)
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July 1, 2008 at 11:37 am ET Now that the year is halfway over, I went hunting through the S&P 500 index, looking stocks that somehow did well despite headwinds for their sectors and industries.
The clearest standout may be Hudson City Bancorp ... (more) Monday, June 30, 2008 From Investing Insights - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 30, 2008 at 2:53 pm ET By Matthew Goldstein
Shares of the battered investment bank took another beating on Monday on widespread speculation that a rival firm was going to make a bid for Lehman Brothers (LEH) at a substantial discount to ... (more) A Bear executive's Wall Street comeback (1 click)
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June 30, 2008 at 1:18 pm ET By Matthew Goldstein
Former Bear Stearns executive Richard Marin certainly knows a thing or two about hedge fund failures. Marin was the chairman of Bear Stearns Asset Management when the division’s two big hedge funds imploded ... (more) Sunday, June 29, 2008 From Investing Insights - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 29, 2008 at 11:17 am ET Jean-Marie Eveillard, he of the thick French accent and incredible multi-decade investing record, is almost ready to retire -- again. Eveillard, who managed the First Eagle Global Fund (SGENX) among others, is one of the ... (more) Friday, June 27, 2008 From Investing Insights - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 27, 2008 at 3:17 pm ET Wall Street has a love-hate relationship with its research analysts. On the one hand, equity analysts have a decidedly mixed record of accurately predicting the future. If you bought when your typical analyst rates a ... (more) Thursday, June 26, 2008 SPACs as a hiding place in bear markets (1 click)
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June 26, 2008 at 2:33 pm ET I've never been a big fan of special purpose acquisition corporations, or SPACs. Those are the publicly-traded pools of money raised to give some financier or other a source of funds to do one or ... (more) From Investing Insights - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 26, 2008 at 9:22 am ET Mohamed El-Erian, the former and current star manager at Pimco and Bill Gross's right-hand man, has a tendency to sound more than a little Greenspan-esque. It could be from his years at the International Monetary ... (more) Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Living in the Stock Market Moment (2 clicks)
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June 24, 2008 at 12:48 pm ET Are the stomach-churning ups-and-downs of the financial markets not quite thrilling enough for you? Do you crave instantaneous, immediate connection to the stock market? You're in luck.
Today the New York Stock Exchange (NYX) announced it ... (more) Items 1 - 25 of 188
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