Archive for February 2010
Top Gun FP Client Note: Impressive 4th Quarter Earnings
February 25, 2010 · Category: Macro Economics, Market Commentary, Stocks, Top Gun Financial Planning
NOTE: Every week I write a Client Note for my clients. For a limited time, I am allowing non-clients to sign up and receive the Client Note. You can sign up at the top right ...
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Mark Hart, The 37 Year Old Texas Hedge Fund Manager Who Bet Against Europe’s Debt And Won
Bloomberg ("Corriente Said to Pay Backers After Europe Debt Bets", Bloomberg, February 23) and The Wall Street Journal ("How A Texan Bagged Europe", Gregory Zuckerman, The Wall Street Journal, February 24, C1) reported, and the internet is abuzz ...
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“Dollar Crisis” Author Richard Duncan On Europe’s Closing Bell
February 23, 2010 · Category: CNBC, Macro Economics
Richard Duncan's The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures (1st Edition: 2003, 2nd Edition: 2005) is one of the best books of applied macroeconomics I've read and it is what really stimulated my thinking when I ...
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The Story Of Duane Reade
Andrew Ross Sorkin has a wonderful piece on the story of Duane Read, the Manhattan based drug store chain with 257 stores in the New York Area that was acquired by Walgreen's (WGN) last Wednesday, ...
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HP Numbers Tell Same Store Of Tech Recovery As Intel And Cisco
February 22, 2010 · Category: Macro Economics, Stocks
[Growth] was pretty broad and pretty linear. Most of our segments saw very good growth.
- Mark Hurd, CEO, Hewlett Packard
Last Wednesday afternoon, tech behemoth Hewlett Packard (HPQ) reported earnings for the quarter ended January 31, 2010 ...
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Lowe’s Results Suggest Stabilization
Our fourth quarter results suggest the worst of the economic cycle is likely behind us. While the psychological impact of falling home prices and an uncertain employment picture continue to weigh on consumers, improving comparable ...
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Top Gun FP Client Note: Two Stocks For A Range Bound Market
February 19, 2010 · Category: Business and Investment Philosophy, Income Investing, Macro Economics, Market Commentary, Options, Portfolio Management, Stocks, Top Gun Financial Planning
In range bound markets, 90% of the return comes from dividends.
- Vitaly Katsenelson, author of Active Value Investing: Making Money In Range Bound Markets (Wiley, 2007), on CNBC's Closing Bell, Tuesday February 16
In last week's ...
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Why The Fed Move Matters
Commentators seem to be split on the important of the Fed's 1/4 point hike in the discount rate yesterday after the close. Some say it's meaningless and not to worry about it. Others see it ...
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CNBC: Vitaly Katsenelson On Investing In Range Bound Markets
February 16, 2010 · Category: Business and Investment Philosophy, Macro Economics, Market Commentary, Portfolio Management
Investing In Range Bound Markets - according to Vitaly Katsenelson:
(1) Trade More Actively
(2) Increase Your Margin Of Safety
(3) Hold More Cash
(4) Buy Dividend Paying Stocks - 90% of the returns in range bound markets come ...
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Grotesque Front Page New York Times Hack Job On Tea Party Movement
February 16, 2010 · Category: Politics
When people start wearing guns to rallies, what's the next thing that happens?
- Tony Stewart, a leading civil rights activist (according to the article), quoted in "Tea Party Movement Lights Fuse For Rebellion on Right", David ...
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