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Still Too Early to Cheer Housing Starts
We recently learned that housing starts beat expectations in November, rising 3.9% over the previous month. I am not a housing expert, but I thought increasing supply in an already oversaturated market with depressed demand is a bad thing. However, a recent Bloomberg article discusses why more homebuilding is a positive for the economy as it would add a significant amount of jobs to the economy. While this may be true, I believe improvement would be offset by a continuing decline in home...
What is the right time for selling stock
Falling stocks are a holders nightmare to decide when to sell is even more confusing here are a few basics to help you decide when to call it a day.
However, if you pick your stocks wisely, you would never fall victim of sudden demands to sell off & escape. You can then hold your stocks for a real long time, perhaps till your financial objectives are accomplished. A common perception says that the correct moment to quit your stocks is when their value is on the brink of fall, even the...
Don t Buy This Buffett Pick
Odds are that if you heard about a Warren Buffett pick trading near its 52-week low that had amazed Bill Gates, you'd be pretty interested in picking up shares for yourself. You might even rush out to do so once you got wind of the rumor that Buffett was looking to increase the size of his investment in the company. Tack onto that the fact that it's a fast-growing company in China, and this could be a stock you'd hold and profit from for the next decade or more.
Does this wonder stock exist?...
Profit on a Flat Stock
Since its bottom on March 6, 2009, the S&P 500 has made a historic rally over 80% rivaling what we saw coming out of the Great Depression in 1938. However, if you take a gander at the years following 1938, you see after that big market rebound that stocks were relatively flat for a handful of years, including about 10% declines in both 1940 and 1941. If you were an investor back then, you were left twiddling your thumbs, merely hoping for additional gains from the market at some point. These...
Is It Time to Sell This Sector
The past year wasn't a blowout one for IPOs, but the market did demonstrate its ability to inhale a good business and spit out a bad one. Both established and speculative companies made the list of IPOs this year, and performance wasn't too shabby for some of the higher-profile names:
Tesla and Molycorp are showing nothing but losses right now, but the market is willing to take a risk on companies with potential. General Motors and RealD have established businesses, even if RealD wasn't able...
How Much Is Mattel Worth
We can't say Mattel (NYSE: MAT) made it through the recession totally unscathed. In 2008, the company saw its margins get crunched and that was followed by a sales dip in 2009. Of course, the weakness Mattel experienced was nothing compared to what many other companies experienced, and through the tough times the company stayed solidly profitable and free-cash-flow-positive. We can probably attribute the company's recession-fighting abilities to the resilience of toys many parents would rather...
Is GameStop the Perfect Stock
Everyone would love to find the perfect stock. But will you ever really find a stock that gives you everythingyou could possibly want? One thing's for sure: If you don't look, you'll never find truly great investments. So let's first take a look at what you'd want to see from a perfect stock, and then decide if GameStop(NYSE: GME) fits the bill.
When you're looking for great stocks, you have to do your due diligence. It's not enough to rely on a single measure, because a stock that looks...
The 10 Worst Networking and Electronics Stocks of 2010
It's been a pretty kind year to stock investors, with the S&P showing a 12.8% gain in 2010. Of course, kindness might still feel relative after a lost decade of negative returns that included the nauseating depths and panic of the financial crisis.
Still, not every stock sees gains when a rising tide lifts all boats. Here's a list of this year's 10 worst performers in the networking and electronics industries, ignoring companies that have gone bankrupt or sunk below $200 million in market...
The Optimist s Guide to 2011
Things tend to get better over time. That's just the way it works. Life expectancy, real income, technology, medicine, transportation, communication these things tend to rise relentlessly higher for the majority of the world over time, pushing aside wars, famines, recessions, and natural disasters that get in their way. The pessimists who dominate public discourse insist that we will soon reach a turning point and things will start to get worse, writes Matt Ridley in his book The Rational...
How Do You Sell Your Business
Selling your business can be hard, especially after investing so much money, time, and energy on building it up. If you do it right, you win; if you do it wrong, you lose.
Selling a business is a delicate balancing act, and takes time. However, Bo Burlingham, in his Foreword of Built to Sell, by John Warrillow, provides a counter-intuitive advice about building and selling a business: The point is that the best businesses are sellable, and smart businesspeople believe that you should build...
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