Reading Time: < 1 minute Accoring to Seattle PI: “Up to 1.5 million daily giveaways will begin Oct. 2 and run through Nov. 7 at more than 10,000 company-owned and licensed U.S. stores, Starbucks said. When the promotion ends, Starbucks expects to have given away more than 50 million songs.” During the promotion, Starbucks will pick an artist each day

Reading Time: 2 minutes Last Saturday when I was reading the Shanghai Business Review magazine in a Starbucks (Hongqiao Parkson), I was a little surprised to learn there are 570,000 foreign expatraites living or working in Shanghai. Hangzhou, the scenic city near Shanghai, has 8,000. I remember in year 2003 or so, the ShanghaiExpat web site just got started

Reading Time: < 1 minute Week in review 09/16 to 09/22 0) Sept 22 is “no car day” in many Chinese cities. Individual car owners are encouraged to take public transportation. I saw some volunteers on Zhongshan park metro station. 1) According to China Capital week, 中文难倒高盛, Goldman Sachs senior executive, Malysian Chinese Richard Ong, failed the Chinese test administrated

Reading Time: 2 minutes After I got some moderate success on OPSW and GE in early 2004. I got a bit excited. If I could use one word to summerize what I did my acitivies on stocks in those two years, it’s speculation. I did all kinds of speculations, luckily I did not get into really dangerous zone: margin,

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.