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Time to buy Dell? Nope!Dell shares tumbled 6 percent following the weak results announced today. Steve Felice, president of Dell's small and medium business claimed Windows 7 will have some positive effects on overall PC demand, but the larger effect will come from the older base. It's a fact the many businesses did not migrate to Microsoft's Vista for couple of reasons. First of ...
The Real ProblemDow Jones industrials plunged 777 points on Monday, the most ever for a single day after the bailout bill has been defeated in House of Representatives. News stunned investors not only in U.S. but also in all around the world. President and House leaders are trying to revive the bill. It may be voted again soon. However, will any bailout solve all the ...
Time to Buy United Airlines?Let me start with a disclosure: I do personally own United Airlines stocks. This is no secret that the prices of airline stocks are tied to the price of oil. Oil price has peeked to $146 a barrel in July which I believe mostly due to speculation. If you think about it, all fundamentals are against oil right now. The demand is decreasing as with ...
Time to Buy Starbucks?Economic slowdown has hit the Starbucks hard as many people expected. At the end, $5 latte was the easiest thing to cut when people are in financial trouble. Company lost half of its market value since last year and the stock is now hovering its 2003 levels. It closed at $14.42 on Friday. Now the question is whether the stock is a good buy at these levels? ...
What about direct investments???I am new here - but this site is really exciting -- a friend just invited me and I love the concept. Am I missing something -- or is something is missing?? There are no Direct Participation Programs -- or DPP's. I think people are with into bonds and stocks -- or they are more active players doing real estate, gas and oil, creating or investing ...
Where is Google headed?The shares of search giant Google dropped 9.8 percent on Friday, the day after it announced its second quarter results. This was the fourth quarter Google missed the expectations since its initial public offer. Excluding stock-based compensation costs, profit was $4.63 per share, below the $4.72 average of Wall Street analyst forecasts. Google long claimed ...
Web 2.0 StatsWith Web 2.0 technology it is much easier to get up and running with a few million dollars than it has been with other traditional software companies. A total of 178 deals received $1.34 billion in 2007, an 88% increase over 2006. Here is a breakdown for your viewing pleasure. Can you anticipate Crash 2.0. U.S. Web 2.0 Investment by Region, 2006-2007 2006 ...
Virtualization Market - VMWare, Citrix, Microsoft and OthersServer and desktop virtualization market is one of the hottest technology markets that is growing rapidly. Estimated market size for the year 2007 will most likely be slightly less than $2 billion. According to IDC virtualization market is expected to be $11.7 billion in 2011. The major players in virtualization market are VMware, Citrix and Microsoft. VMware ...
Why are the commodity prices going through the roof?The prices of precious metals, grains, corn, and other commodities have dramatically risen over past few months. Many people blame "irrational" investors that are just creating another "bubble". This probably holds true for durable materials, such as gold. After all, the price of gold is just following supply and demand laws. Because ...
AMD's Future and IBMAMD stock price is down more than 80 % since January 2005. 2 years ago this time, AMD's stock price was hovering around $40 a share with market capitalization of $24 billion. In year 2006, AMD acquired ATI the graphics chip maker for $5.4 billion. Now AMD's stock price is around $7 with market capitalization of $4.3 billion. Today the combined AMD and ATI company is ...
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Investing in a Down Economy, Part III will continue talking about investing in a down economy. I decided to make this like a mini series. My suggestion to most people are, before doing anything with your money follow this three step process: Divide your money into buckets: now bucket: money that you spent on a regular basis, short term bucket: money to be spent within next 1 to 5 years, ...
Investing in a Down EconomyIf somebody asked me when is a good time to invest, my first answer would be when there is a bunch of bargain priced stocks available. And yes, now is that time. Look around. Go to the Stocks page and see the profitable and growing companies with P/E ratios of around 5. When have you ever seen good companies with their stocks at these low P/E levels? I ...
Time to buy DELL?Dell's new executive management is doing everything in their power to keep the company financially sound while trying not to lay off any of their staff. That is something I really respect for their effort. Instead of announcing a lay-off and having a percentage of their employees unemployed in a tougher market, they are asking their employees to take unpaid time-off. Laying ...
The Numbers Are In - Foreclosures Are UpAs expected, the foreclosure rate was up 21% in September, according to RealtyTrac. Year over year, the foreclosures are up 71%. No surprises here, I guess. Other interesting information for California residents is that, we account for 1/3 of the nationwide foreclosures. Good news is that the rate of foreclosures slowed down from August to September. There ...
Economic Slowdown and Stock MarketFor the last month the stock market has been going down. A month ago, Dow Jones was hovering around 11,500 points now around 9000. A year ago, Dow Jones was at 13,522 points. Namely, in one year it lost more than 30%. Dow Jones is back to the 2003 values. If we ask ourselves whether the economy grew over the last 5 years we all know that there ...
September 29 2008 - What a Day!!!The stock market went down like crazy today. I could not imagine our generation would see a depression-like market fluctuation. The Nasdaq was down almost 10%!!! I cannot believe The House couldn't pass the legislation. What do they think they are doing? No wonder the Senate has the lowest approval times of all times. I hope the lawmakers will finally make ...
Dell is backIt is good to be a Dell stock holder today. It is good to see Michael Dell taking charge and bringing back the Dell from the downturn that she took after Michael Dell left for a short period of time. It was a vice decision on the board's part to actually bring back Michael Dell the former number 1 PC manufacturer. Dell launched a variety of products today: Hybrid ...
Am I good or what?Looks like I have been really good at rating Kraft. It went up today with the exact reasoning I have given sometime ago. See my rating: http://www.tivid.com/network/profile/bin... See today's news: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/busi...
To a healthy Steve Jobs!The fine line of being a good reporter and invading another person's privacy and making false accusations is crossed one more time. This time it is Joe Nocera, one of the New York Times' writers. He does not even have the basic logic, and he is still claiming that Steve made a mistake by calling him telling him that he does not have cancer and he should ...
Oil Prices Up and DownA few days ago, the President symbolically lifted the ban for offshore oil drilling. Now, the Senate moved forward with the energy speculation bill. As we speak, oil prices have been declining. Theoritecally, supply and demand dictates the price in the markets. In the case of securities or oil futures market the supply and demand are not the actual product ...
Median Bay Area House Price is down 27.1%According to DataQuick Information Systems, Bay Area median house price is down 27.1% to $485K from the peak in March 2004 at $665K. Read more at SF Gate: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...
Is Your House an Investment?The short answer is "It depends." In order to answer this question better, let's group the type of owners of houses in US and explain how and why owning a house is an investment or not. Average American Average American is the citizen who owns his primary residence or perhaps a secondary residence that is not rented out. They typically live in their ...
California Foreclosure Bargain Hunters: Be Aware!By now, everybody knows or heard about mortgage melt-down. Every major news paper, TV station and other online media have been talking about it 24/7. There is always an opportunity in every situation, regardless of whether it is good situation or bad. For some this mortgage melt-down will create opportunities, such as that expensive home they were eying ...
What Fed cuts mean for mortgagesContrary to the reports by the lazy news media, mortgage rates are just about unchanged, about 5.75 percent for the lowest-fee 30-year paper. Surveys showed that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage had an average interest rate of 5.48 percent with 0.4 point during the week compared to an average of 5.69 percent with 0.5 point a week earlier. One year ago the ...
Who is to benefit from Hillary's Foreclosure Freeze?Hillary Clinton promises to deliver a 3 year freeze on foreclosures. On the surface, that appears a very noble thing to do, as she is saving some people from finding themselves "on the street". However, let's consider what that freeze would mean in more detail. Government cannot dictate a corporation what to do, unless you live in a communist state. ...
Hottest and Weakest Industries of 2007Based on quarterly earnings year over year, the following industries performed the best. I guess there are not any surprises here:
Electronic Equipment 1411.17%
Computer Peripherals 1271.12%
Long-Term Care Facilities 578.02% ...
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