Archive for May, 2006
Thursday, May 11th, 2006
One quick way I can think of doing it is by taking advantage of the new 50 year mortgages being offered by desperate lenders.
A handful of lenders have begun offering 50-year adjustable-rate loans to buyers who need to keep payments low in the face of record home prices and rising ...
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
One type of stock that always receives a lot of attention is the so-called "penny stock". Penny stock was a term used to describe any stock under $10 at one time, and very few brokerages would even allow trading in them. Penny stock now refers to "sub-penny stock" ...
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
It can happen to any company. A former high-flyer starts stumbling. This is what seems to be happening to Dell Lately as the warn again on earnings. The global market is highly competitive, and no company can take market share for granted. As investors, a ...
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
Things are moving sideways, because people are waitiing to see what happens with interest rates, and with oil stocks weaken.
Oil stocks weaken as crude prices are lowered. But mainly the current situation is based on waiting for an clues on interst rates:
The Fed "is the only thing holding the ...
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Friday, May 5th, 2006
VOIP, which is an already cheap service, is about to get even cheaper as Verizon announces price cuts clearly aimed at hurting Vonage's profitability. Vonage has been a marketing powerhouse, signing up customers at a rapid clip, but obviously, lower prciing.
Voip has been killing telcos for two ...
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Thursday, May 4th, 2006
Garmin is a heck of a company that makes a great product and makes big money doing it. If you haven't checked out GRMN yet, it's worth a look. I've used one of their StreetPilot units for a year now, and just love the thing. Apparently, I'm ...
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Oil stocks continue to do well. This is no shock as Oil hovers around $75 per barrel. Oil is at an all-time high, and investors are pouring money into stocks hoping to cash in.
XOM is up about $5 per share in the last 30 days or ...
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
For awhile, Sirius has been popular with investors. They generally haven't given anyone anything too cheer about. Finally, with Howard Stern subscriber numbers in, people have some news to be optimistic about. SIRI has big revenue increase, despite news that stock based compensation for Stern cost the ...
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Monday, May 1st, 2006
Google, who's always adding something, recently added an interesting service that is similar to Yahoo Finance, but takes a slightly different take on things. Google integrated Google Finance right in with their results, so typing in a stock symbol in the search button will return the page from Google ...
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