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Stock Market Volatility – Now is NOT the Time to Sell

Today’s bad economic news coupled with investor fear over the fate of Citibank (see why I think this bank may collapse) and other financial stocks, sent the stock market spiraling to a 5 year low. A sense of panic and fear seems to have entered the hearts of many investors, including myself, and the urge [...]

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InBev and Anheuser-Busch (BUD) Options – Arbitrage Profits from the Credit Squeeze

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The difficulty in closing funding for some recently concluded corporate takeovers has presented an arbitrage profit opportunity for investors willing to take some risk. In particular I refer to the $52 billion mega takeover of U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch (Ticker : BUD), the company that is famous for Budweiser Beer, by Belgian brewer InBev. Both are [...]

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>Back to the 20th Century

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>This chart from the WSJ says it all in summarizing the state of the stock market and the record lows breached today. The Dow Jones industrial average finished more than 360 points lower, dropping below the 10,000 mark for the first time in five years, and to levels first reached in 1999. However, the good [...]

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Did I buy Apple to late (2K loss to date)? A look at their upcoming earnings

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When I bought Apple (AAPL) stock a few weeks ago for $187 ($16K in total) before the launch of the 3G iPhone, I was pretty confident about the prospects for the stock. I expected some short term volatility as it is a growth stock, but since my purchase it has fallen steadily to close at [...]

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>VMware : Another dot com sequel

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>Oh VMware, I was so disappointed when I didn’t buy you in the IPO at $29. My pain was worse when you soared past $100, but now I am not so sad since your CEO left and stock price bled. Will I buy you now? I think not, after all your profits are a falling [...]

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My shiny new iPhone and why I bought Apple

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I recently bought $16,000 worth of Apple stock, which I covered in a post two days ago. The way the post was written, and based on some of the comments I got on it, may have led to the impression that it was a speculative or uninformed buy. It definitely wasn’t. Firstly, I would not [...]

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Oh no….I just bought $16K worth of Apple and am already down $300!

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I bought the 85 Apple (AAPL) shares this morning at $186.88 (see screenshot below) based on what I have been reading over the last few weeks and on the potential growth from their upcoming new I-phone, launching next week. The stock is now below $184, three hours later so I am already down $300+. Did [...]

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Playing the Agriculture & Solar boom in one safe stock – Du Point (DD)

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The spike in food and commodity prices has meant we are all feeling the pain of higher bills every time we go to the grocery store. However, some companies are actually benefiting from higher food prices and the rise in demand of all things related to food production. These are the stocks of agricultural chemical [...]

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Macau Play : Melco PBL (MPEL) – on the up and worth a gamble

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One of the stocks I own in my portfolio is Macau (in China) casino operator Melco PBL Entertainment (MPEL). In a previous post I lamented my losses on it but believed it still had some good upside in the medium to long term. Well it had a nice run up this week ahead of its [...]

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How to Buy Shares via an Online Stock Broker – Two Simple Steps

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My brother-in-law recently decided he wanted to buy some Visa shares (V) following a discussion we had around the positive outlook for the company. However he has never bought shares before and asked me about the process. So this post is for him and others new to the stock market. It may look complex with [...]

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