Archive for June, 2010
Premarket Friday
Premarket stock futures are trying to figure out which way to go today, but are currently higher (but barely). Mixed news signals including the UK government backing BP, pledging to help with the Gulf oil spill. Additionally, Chinese inflation rose to a 19-month high, and Spain is in question whether or not it requested aid [...]
Would you invest in yourself?
In conjunction with the recent investment talk at this website recently, I wanted to ask our readers a question related to the tag line of this website, “Run Your Life like a Business.” Would you invest in yourself if you were a business? Have you ever contemplated such a thought process? What exactly would you [...]
Linking Tuesday
U.S. stocks ended firmly higher Tuesday, even as the technology sector stayed lower, rebounding from two days of heavy losses helped by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s assessment that another recession is unlikely. Here are some links for your reading pleasure from today, Tuesday June 8, 2010: Teens face worst summer job market in years [...]
Mint.com Summary and Review
Mint.com is by far one of the flashiest, sleekest, most-web-2.0-ish personal finance applications to hit the market in quite some time. Will it revolutionize your personal finances? Read on and see for yourself. (Review provided by http://personalfinancesoftwarereviews.com/mint/) We have used Mint.com for some time now. It is the most user-friendly, basic, free online personal finance [...]
Berkshire Hathaway Meeting
Mr. Buffett’s annual meeting occured on May 1, 2010. The Visitor’s Guide to this great event can be found here. I’m about a month late in writing this very brief blog post, but I wanted to make sure I published it anyways, better late than never. I occasionally receive emails from Keys to the Vault [...]
New Piotroski Screen Stocks
Good evening. The markets were primarily bullish today, as traders await the jobs report number tomorrow. Tomorrow at 8:30 am EDT we have the following economic number releases: Nonfarm payrolls Unemployment rate Hourly earnings Average workweek I am looking to see about 500k for Nonfarm payrolls, versus prior period of 290k. Since this is released [...]
Economic Data – Week of June 1st
Briefing.com has a very informative and simple to use Economic Calendar, which I have pasted below (Briefing). To become a successful trader or investor, you must learn how to research items that affect the macro economy, as well as each individual geographic region, industry, sector, and stock. This Economic Calendar is something that I have [...]
BP
The markets kicked off a new month with continued worries about BP’s (BP) problems and its impact on the energy sector. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 112.61, or 1.11%, to 10,024.02, and the S&P 500 dropped 18.70, or 1.72%, to 1,070.71. The Nasdaq sank 34.71, or 1.54%, to 2,222.33 (TheStreet.com) As BP prepares to [...]
