Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday Dow Industrial closed above 14,000 the first time in history. Many people, bulls, bears, analysts, CEOs, ordinary workers,…all get excited about this. Many US workers have 401k plan, and I bet some of that is invested stocks (indirectly through Mutual Fund). But Dow Industrial is NOT a good indicator of the overall stock market.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Heelys sold 5.1 million pairs of its walk/skate shoes in the US during 2006. Note in the US there are about 36 million kids between age of 6 to 14, Heelys’ core customer. In other words, every one out of 7 kids in the US got a pair of Heelys, which sells from $49.99. The
Reading Time: 2 minutes From the F1 Prospectus: “…Mr. Zhou has over 14 years of experience in China’s real estate industry. Mr. Zhou has been the chairman and president of Shanghai Real Estate Consultant & Sales (Group) Co., Ltd. since 2003. From 1997 to 2003, he served as a director and the general manager of Shanghai Real Estate Exchange
Reading Time: < 1 minute Pacific Epoch is a boutique investment research firm based in Hongkong (and Shanghai?). I read its China financial news from time to time, and liked its content. It also provide services and reports to institutional investors. This is the price tag for translating a Chinese article, $5000 (to see a bigger pic, click below). Man,
Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update July 19) CNNMoney has an article about Mindray (the original article was on IBD). (Original) The annual report is out. You can get it from its IR Home. From first glance, it’s looking sharp (I mean, the graphic design). Second quarter results will be announced on August 6 after US market close (8 AM
Reading Time: 3 minutes China. Hot. Housing market in China? Red hot. Put an “e” (hint: eBay) before that? Sizzling. So do we jump into this sizzling (hot) IPO, just by looking at its name and its business, the residential real estate brokage in China? The answer is obviously No. First a little bit history on Chinese residential housing
Reading Time: 2 minutes in Japan. I read this news from MSN that McDonald is going to open McCafe stores in Japan. Quote the news: “The Japan unit of U.S.-based McDonald’s Corp. will launch 15 pilot “McCafe” stores in the Tokyo area on August 29, according to a company release. The stores, the burger chain’s first foray into the
Reading Time: 2 minutes I bought my first stock back in 1994 when I worked for a manufacturing company in Shanghai, and I got to buy 250 shares when the company went public. After that between 1996 and 1997 I did some trade in stocks because at that time the Chinese stock market was very hot, if not as
Reading Time: < 1 minute Dai Tou Da Ge, the Chinese famous stock blogger, got arrested by the goverment for “illeagally enaged in financial advising activities”, according to Sina news. So what do we learn from this? 1) If some one claims he/she can predict the stock market with 90% accuracy. Run, run away as fast as you can. 2)
Reading Time: < 1 minute I bought some NINE (Ninetowns) shares for the 3rd time last Dec. for two reasons: 1) It’s getting into B2B business. A successful example of B2B in China is Ma Yun’s Alibaba, which has done well (at least generated lots of buzz), and is planning to go IPO in Hongkong this year. 2) Duan Yongping,
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