Archive for February, 2008

Bookkeeping: ‘Rising Tide’ Performance Week 30

Week 30 performance of the mutual fundComments: that week summarized the market by the past month and half quite perfectly. Direction-less. Volatile. Completely bipolar. After a huge rally last Friday in the last 30 minutes, the markets started slow that week but soon after did another huge para…

How Quickly Things Change - Where is Charlie Gasparino?

Amazing how things change that quickly, eh? Bear markets.Wednesday at that moment, I wrote an entry in which I put out that chart of the S&P500 and said a picture is worth a thousand words. We were at S&P 1382 level and right below the 50 day moving average. Champagne corks were being unc…

Ways You Think You’re Saving Money But Your Really Not

We are in recession and everyone needs to save more money than usual. Today, I am going to tell you about some ways you think you might be saving money, but you’re really not saving anything.Everyday we are faced with decisions that will produce our life easier now, but not later. We have to t…

Faced with Mortgage Default, some US Homeowners Walk Out

This scoop is something we’ve been discussing for quite a few months; it should hit the mainstream media by next fall when it becomes more and more rampant. As I’ve said in the past, taking the morality away, it’s actually the “right” financial decision in many ways. Instead of having an albatross o…

Bookkeeping: Adding Coal Exposure

Traders market… all of these names are in nice uptrends but have pulled back in past 2 sessions, so I am beginning to re-expand positions, and buy back shares I sold off of late. $5-$6K type of additions to all 4 of my primary coal namesPeabody Energy (BTU)Consol Energy (CNX)Massey Energy (MEE)Ar…

AHFS 50th Edition Continues Tradition Of Helping Health Professionals assemble Safe, Effective Drug Therapy Decisions

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ (ASHP) longstanding commitment to providing dependable drug data for pharmacists and other health professionals continues with the release of the 50th edition of the print version of AHFS Drug info ® (AHFS DI).

AHFS DI is the leading source …

Medtronic Announces First Human Use Of Its Bifurcation Stent

Seeking to address a challenge facing interventional cardiologists and hundreds of thousands of patients with coronary artery disease worldwide, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), announced the first human use of its investigational bifurcation stent. The new stent employs an innovative Y-shaped design to…

Next Page »