Boring Market

You only have three options in the stock market; buy, hold or sell. What will you do in this current market?
Nancy Trejos, a writer from The Washington Post, explores what you should do When You’re Tied Up in a Down Market. After reading this article a few times I have concluded that neither she nor […]

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I have virtually climbed into a financial rabbit hole to weather out all and any fallout. I have and always will be a long term investor in the stock market, which means when times get rough I rather hide then sell.
Due my horrible timing of stock purchases in the past few months I have been […]

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Oil
Crude oil prices have more then doubled in the past year, and we have all felt this increase at the pump. Financial pundits report the same story over and over again with our dependence on oil, prices reaching new high records and alternative energy. Five dollar, six dollar a gallon gas are the shock tactic […]

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Penny stocks are one of the most dangerous stocks in the market, tech stocks in 1999 dangerous.
The difference between a penny stock and a stock battered to all-time lows is the potential it has and the assets it sits on.
Jamba Inc. (NASDAQ: JMBA) commonly called Jamba Juice Company serves blended-to-order fruit smoothies, squeezed-to-order juices blended […]

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Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ:WFMI ) fell 13% today on news of lackluster earnings and it seems that the ‘dust hasn’t settled’ yet.
The problem I see is the reaction to the macroeconomics circumstances were in right now: Americans are worried about inflation therefore spending less money on premium food.
Investors and consumers alike still think were in […]

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During last weekend’s annual shareholder meeting Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, made a comment many missed saying “Anyone that expects us to come close to replicating the past should sell their stock. It isn’t going to happen.”
Wait, a CEO telling his shareholders that the company he runs isn’t going to meet the expectations […]

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Investors this week breathed a sigh of relief due to better then expected earnings from several companies who released their numbers.
Google proved that a looming recession had no effect on their numbers as they increased profit by 30% sending its stock price up $90 in one day while skeptics bought back into the company. These […]

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Coca-Cola proved to be “recession-proof” in our unstable economic times by reporting a nineteen percent gain in first-quarter profit. Their strong international sales carried them through and caused the stock to remain stable.
The Coca-Cola Company is a pillar in the consumer goods sector. Their heritage and legacy along with their defensive approach to this market […]

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When a well known, well run conglomerate such as General Electric misses earnings exceptions causing the stock price to tumble thirteen percent I can not help but get excited.

We are no longer in the age of buying high and selling higher, rather we have to look at our current economic state and become […]

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Has our economy resulted in less IPOs by startups?  Have Silicon Valley tech companies instead decided to grow with venture capitalist funding rather then selling a large chunk of themselves to the public?
 
We are no longer in the days of the dot-com boom where an exit strategy is planned before launch and is aimed towards […]

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