Reading Time: < 1 minute On Sept 20, 2007 ATV: up 20.10% EFUT: up 49.92% XFML: up 20.70% It seems to me the domestic investors (or speculators to be precise) can not wait the Chinese goverment offically opens the H shares to domestic investors, they already came to the US 🙂

Reading Time: 2 minutes First a little update about the Typhoon Wilpa. Shanghai did not take the direct hit, or use my now retired boss words “we dodged another bullet”, he was referring to his condo at Florida during Hurricane season. More importantly, Shanghai suffered minimal human loss because of comprehensive preparation before the storm. More than 290,000 people

Reading Time: < 1 minute I sold Wuxi Pharma Tech (WX) this morning, at $28.81. Not surprisingly the stock continued up after I sold it. I bought it a month ago at $21.80 so I’m happy. The stock is a bit expensive at current price ($30), considering its PE (about 100), profit margin, and its 2007 est. revenue. Another thing

Reading Time: < 1 minute I normally don’t participating in stock discussion forums. But this one titled “company and stock did not connect” at Google Finance caught my attention a month ago. So I went ahead and commented: Original comment: why is the good performance of the company disconnected from the horrible performance of the stock? When a company is

Reading Time: 3 minutes I was looking for a secular growth stock in China. By secular growth I mean the business grows continously without the normal business cycle. One benifit of secular growth is it usually does not go up or down a lot as economy cycle does. A side benifit of this is we (investors) can sleep better

Reading Time: < 1 minute It is said the largest typhoon in a decade, will hit Zhejiang province and Shanghai on tomorrow evening. Heavy rain already came today.

Reading Time: < 1 minute The apartment we rent has experienced ownership change. The current owner can not resist the offer given by new owner (more than 15,000 Yuan per sqr meter), and she sold it. The apartment is about 20 years old, and near Zhongshan park. From my observations newer apartments (5 or 6 years old) in the area

Reading Time: < 1 minute Charlie Munger is the Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathway, and chairman of West Co. Financial. He has background in law, real estate, and investing. I found his recent Q&A on the West Co. Financial’s annual stock holder meeting to be interesting. Here is the Chinese excerpt translation by Deng Hang; and here is the original

Reading Time: < 1 minute Week in review 09/09 to 09/15 1) One dollar is 7.50 Yuan. This is the rate I got from China Construction Bank ATM today, using my BoA debit card. 2) The China People’s Bank raised interest rate (by 0.27%) again in the weekend. 3) Moon cake coupon: there are many “moon cake coupon” flippers these

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chinese stocks are becoming more and more expensive. From different statistics, average PE of the market is in 40s. This is not cheap compared to around PE 18 of US S&P 500. There are many reasons for that, and I’m not jumping into it. But I want to share an interesting phenomena here: these days