Reading Time: < 1 minute 1) Don’t jump into an IPO on its first day. Do some research if you really want to jump. 2) A controlling shareholder is also the CEO: usually not good for small shareholders. 3) One customer (Chinese goverment), one product (custome declaring software), be very worried.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is the Yahoo Finance experts’ blogs. Among them I like Ben Stein the best, because of his wit and humor, Laura Rowley and Jeremy Siegel are also my favorites. Laura talked about “happiness and money”, as you may know there is a balance between those two. Her background in theology makes her talk more interesting too.
Reading Time: < 1 minute The split day is June 14, Thursday. It has a nice run since last week. I will wait it calm down a bit before adding my postions. Obviously, I missed the buying opportunity about two weeks ago when there were some insiders sellings. It pulled back to 76~78 at that time. Oh well, no rear mirror view for stocks.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Went to a newly opened Starbucks at Olive and Price yesterday. This is a very nice place, compared to the one at Olive and Craig (much older). The traffic there was OK consider this was Sunday morning. A lot things are against Starbucks business lately, according to a guest at CNBC this morning.
Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update June 10) Today when I visited Galleria Mall, I saw Walk ‘N Roll, a knockoff of Heelys. Unlike Crocs, I think knockoff will take a toll at Heelys’ sale. (Original June 8 ) Here is the S1 prospectus from SEC web site. It appears the selling shareholders (mostly venture capital) filed on June 7 to unload 8 m
Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update June 7) As you would have expected, the stock dropped again (about 2.66%) after I bought it yesterday. Call it Major’s rule: stock usually drops after Major buys it. (Original) I got a little more Starbucks (SBUX) this morning. After I bought it I realized the stock got cheaper today probablly because Panera (PNRA) issued a warning on its
Reading Time: < 1 minute On Dec 15, 2006 I bought 46 shares of CROX at $42.40. I bought and sold (traded) more CROX afterwards, but I kept those 46 shares all the time. This morning it reached as high as $85.10.
Reading Time: 2 minutes All right, ever since the Chinese regulators found the silver bullet and pulled the trigger, the Shanghai composite index lost more than 500 points and a lot of people lost money or gave back the gains they already made, some of them are “crying foul” for the goverment action. Well, in stock market, just like in NBA, complaining to
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hit new low in May. Here are the number of IPOs the first half of this year: Jan: 9 Feb: 11 Mar: 5 Jan to Mar subtotal CNY 67.5 b
Reading Time: < 1 minute We often heard story like that someone made $5,000 in stocks in one month. Cool. But that does not tell the whole story. Why? There are a few questions I like to ask: 1) How much did he/she make the month before and after (that particular month)? Did he/she make more money (less money) or lose money in other months.
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