Festival of Stocks — March 5, 2007 Edition
Welcome to the March 5, 2007 edition of the Festival of Stocks. We start with our own little home-grown tidbit on screening index mutual funds and move on to concerns about borrowing to play the market, on update on Buffett tracking, and some 401k menu problems. Next, it is on to stocks and more stocks. We conclude with some poetry, mutual fund pointers, and an admonition to save, which is the front-end of any investment program.
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SCREENING INDEX MUTUAL FUNDS:
Larry Russell says Screening index mutual funds on-line with IndexUniverse.com posted at THE SKILLED INVESTOR Blog “discusses how to screen index mutual funds on-line. This article focuses on using the free index mutual fund screener and database available at IndexUniverse.com. It also discusses the application of our seven scientifically based mutual fund screening criteria, during this process.”
DUBIOUS INVESTMENT PRACTICES:
Rich presents Before the Crash: Buying Stocks With Debt posted at Queercents, saying, “Rich at Queercents saw a very disturbing analysis piece by Reuters news agency today, explaining how investors are borrowing money (because interest rates are very low right now) to buy stocks. Here is his view on the situation…”
BUFFETTOLOGY:
George presents Insights from the 2006 Warren Buffett Letter to Shareholders posted at Fat Pitch Financials, saying, “Great quotes and insights into Warren Buffett’s investment activities.”
MAKING THE BEST OF A BAD 401k MENU:
makingourway tackles the challenge of all bad choices in selecting 401k options with Merrill Lynch posted at makingourway
PICKING STOCKS ONE BY ONE:
TJP analyzes the investment potential of Crocs (CROX), the hottest footwear company in the U.S in, Crocs: Own A Pair and Buy Some Shares posted at Investor Trip.
wcsinvestor explains in Reasoning about Two Sub-prime Lenders posted at Worst-case Scenario Investing, how Sub-Prime Lenders can be a good investment. “Not all sub-prime lenders are doomed. I go through a reasoning exercise to explain why Nicholas Financial and CompuCredit are good investments.”
H.S. Ayoub presents Government Contract Could Set Hollis-Eden Stock Soaring posted at BioHealth Investor.
Travis Johnson presents Doubly Pinky Promise from Blackboard (BBBB) posted at One Guy’s Investments, saying, “Blackboard (BBBB) angered a lot of its customers by trying to enforce a surprisingly broad patent … now its promising to let open source competition move forward. What does that mean for this near-monopoly software provider?”
Brian Schumacher presents Charts of the Week - CLRT and AZL posted at $$$ Trade 4 Cash $$$.
George presents Sally Beauty Holdings Question posted at Fat Pitch Financials, saying, “Some thoughts on whether Sally Beauty will be added to a major index and whether the stock has already been dumped by the Big money.”
AUSSIE ANALYSIS:
Paul Smith presents Quick Analysis of 0 -10c stocks with PE under 10 posted at Investing using Fundamentals on the Aussie StockMarket
A POETIC PREDICTION:
Market Poetry presents Abercrombie’s Future posted at Market Poetry, saying, “Thx & good luck with the carnival!”
FUND SELECTION POINTERS:
Matthew Paulson presents The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Mutual Funds posted at Getting Green.
AUTOMATIC SAVINGS — THE FRONT-END OF AN INVESTMENT PROGRAM:
Bryan C. Fleming presents Million Dollar Savings Club Update: Week 5 posted at Bryan C. Fleming.
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