Stock Investing
Reasonable Investment Advice
If you are wondering how to invest $10,000 you may not want anything fancy. You may just want reasonable investment advice. If the folks who invested all of their money with Bernie Madoff had it to do all over again they would go with reasonable investment advice and not get suckered into a pyramid scheme […]
Will Stocks Fall off the Fiscal Cliff?
As minutes tick away before the end of 2012 we wonder if the juvenile behavior on Capitol Hill will give way to reason. Or will the economy falter? Will stocks fall off the fiscal cliff? Will the US be plunged back into a recession? In the last year we have written, hopefully, about the slow […]
Chinese Manufacturing Increase
Stocks around the world responded favorably to the announcement of the first Chinese manufacturing increase in more than a year. A Chinese manufacturing increase may tell us that prospects for investment in China are positive. On the other hand, at least part of a Chinese manufacturing increase will come from sales by this export driven […]
Invest in Dividend Stocks
Invest in dividend stocks for security and a steady income. There are companies that have routinely paid quarterly dividends for as much as a century. If you want to sleep at night invest in dividend stocks. A contrarian might argue that buy investing in a secure stock that you will give up the potential for […]
Samsung Losses from the Patent Suit
In our article – Ban Samsung Products from the USA – we discussed the high tech patent wars occasioned by the Google sponsored Android platform. It turns out that Samsung lost the law suit in California while winning one in Korea. Surprised? Anyway Apple is drawing up a laundry list of products that it wants […]
Make Money by Investing
Despite the fresh memory of the 2008 stock market crash it still possible to make money by investing in stocks. In order to make money by investing it is necessary to learn to do fundamental analysis of potential investments. In stock investing this involves finding the intrinsic value and margin of safety of a stock. […]
Finding the Margin of Safety of a Stock
Successful long term investors look for stocks that are likely to provide strong cash flow, return on investment, and a degree of security over the years. The security in owning a good stock comes from its margin of safety. The official definition of margin of safety is that it is the difference between the market […]
Manufacturing Contraction Threatens Investments
The economic “chickens” may have come home to roost as a US manufacturing contraction threatens investments. The Institute for Supply Management report on the manufacturing sector shows that June of 2012 produced the first fall in demand in almost three years (July of 2009). ISM’s purchasing manager’s index is a closely watched measure of current […]
Invest in Arena and Its Anti-obesity Drug
As many as a third of adults in the USA are obese and one in six children shares the problem. Type II diabetes, high blood, pressure, heart failure, and other diseases are worsened by obesity. Now the FDA has approved a new drug, made by Arena Pharmaceuticals, for obesity. The question for investors is if […]