Category Archive for Market, Sector, Stock News

Did you see the market downturn coming?

Did you see the massive sell-off last week? Well, you should have. There was a number that stuck out in my mind and I wasn’t sure why. Yeah, it was a big number, 35 billion, but it didn’t seem like it would be anything…

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Epic Fail! 4 Historic Investment Failures

Enron – 2001

Enron was a commodity and energy service company that was a leader in both natural gas and electricity dealings. When Enron declared bankruptcy in 2001, it had 22,000 employees and over $100 billion in revenues….

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Is Social Media Blowing Bubbles? It Doesn't Matter Yet

Are we in the midst of a social media bubble similar to the tech bubble of the late 90s? The answer is no. Not yet anyway.

What characterizes a bubble? Be it the housing…

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Did Investors Over-Value Linkedin?

Yesterday, I saw a lot of tweets about $LNKD coming in that mentioned that Linkedin was overvalued. But is this the case? One tweet in particular caught my attention: “at $90, the market is…

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Linkedin's First Day Of Trading

In case you were unplugged or asleep today, Linkedin (LNKD) had its first day of trading today. This was a long anticipated event and is…

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Major Investors and Their Bets

This is a summary from an article in the Wall Street Journal about how major investors are moving.

  • Berkshire Hathaway took a stake in MasterCard Inc.
  • Steven Cohen‘s SAC Capital increased stakes in retail and consumer-services companies.
  • Carl Icahn disclosed a…
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Apple Will Become A Trillion Dollar Company

I saw this video and had to share it. Altucher predicts that Apple will become a trillion dollar company- and possibly a 2-3 trillion dollar company with a share price of over $1000 or more!

I doubt this will come to fruition. He states that…

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A Record Quarter For Earnings?

So far earnings have been strong. Strong enough in fact that they could be setting a record for the best quarter ever. This is shaping up to be the 7th straight quarter of double digit growth since the recession ended.

With all this…

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1987 Crash Revisited

If you didn’t live through the Black Monday of October 1987 when the stock market lost 20% in a single day than surely you heard about the similarities between the crash in 2008 and the crash in 1987. Both had tremendous loses in a…

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Market Over-Valued?

Is the market getting close to being over-valued again? We saw a run up in prices prior to the crashes of 1929, 1999, and 2007. Again in the 1960′s we saw a run up in prices before being taken down by other forces, but…

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