Reading Time: < 1 minute Don’t know exactly when I learned about Tim, most likely the Bush-Gore 2000 election. But I do remember watching Tim at Meet the Press on Sunday mornings after that. (source: CNET) The thing I like about Tim Russert is: he always asks intelligent questions, provide objective information for the audience to consume, not personal views;

Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday I watched the Russia Netherland game. It was great. Russia has a young and energetic team, and they have lots of oppertunities. Guess who is Neatherland coach? My hero (20 years back) Dutch soccer star Van Basten! (van Basten legendary goal in European Championship in 1988?). TV schedule here. It is the first time

Reading Time: 2 minutes Let me put up the negatives (risk, downside) first. If it still stands after all the beatings, it may work out eventually. We all know semi-conductor is a tough business, and as you may know making cell phone is a cutting throat competitive business in China. Negatives SpreadTrum (Nasdaq:SPRD) supplies chips to domestic cell phone

Reading Time: < 1 minute I am a tech guy, and not surprisingly I like Google. A while ago I found this gseeker blog which talks extensively about Google products in Chinese. Although I shifted my interest to finance in recent years, I read gseeker almost everyday, and it was like a friend to me. Now this relationship comes to

Reading Time: < 1 minute Fundamentals The common census is China economy growth will slow down significantly, due to the slow down from export (trouble in US economy); rising inflation (food, oil etc.) The rights of minority shareholders are also not protected as well as mature market, because in some cases the management cooked up the accounting books, and get

Reading Time: < 1 minute It seems the market is not the only thing that is testing our mind/heart/nerve/will, the midwest flood has also caused substantial demage to WI, IA, IL and the Show Me state. Couple days ago the levee at Hanibal broke. Don’t know if the Mark Twain museum there has been demaged?

Reading Time: 2 minutes WuXi Pharma Tech (NYSE:WX) continued to slide, during my absence. One (main) concern is heavy insider selling (source: seekingalpha) lately, after the secondary offering was suspended on May 4. I double checked the F1 filings for secondary offering (principal and selling shareholders), and found its CEO Dr. Ge Li was going to sell 8 million

Reading Time: < 1 minute Bread and gas Panera officially raised the price of Asiago cheese bagel, from 97 cents to $1.25, which is expected as I read it from news couple weeks ago. The regular unleaded gas is $3.999 in STL. Cheaper than Salt Lake city, but more expensive than Jackson, WY. Some random thoughts about the trip Chevlet

Reading Time: < 1 minute Finanlly I got the free Wifi here at Jackson, WY, the foot hill town of Grand Teton National Park. The Anvil hotel has free Internet, which is better than the fees starting from $9.95 at Hilton at SLC. Back in STL, I noticed Chinese politicians, led by vice Premier Wang Qi Shan (note he is

Reading Time: < 1 minute Interesting news: Buffett is put up a one miilion dollar bet for any hedge fund beat S&P in next 10 years. The proceeds (if Warren wins) will go to his charity. I am going to take a week of vacation from tomorrow, and I may not update this blog during this period. Meanwhile, I am