Reading Time: < 1 minute I got lots of spams (spamming comments) lately. Thus I decided to use the special anti-spam program for now. If you feel your comments have been mistakenly treated as “spam”, shoot me an email and I will manually revert it. I will also check it regularly to make sure legimate comments don’t get treated as

Reading Time: < 1 minute Today I went to Post Office to mail something. I noticed there are lots of people, which is not unusual, because people want to get things done in the weekend. What surprised me a bit is there are many people applying for the Passports. This also makes sense to me because recently the goverment issues

Reading Time: 3 minutes Revisions (July 9, 2008) Buy and hold will not work in this market. What I found interesting lately, is buy a fundmentally good (valuation attractive) stock at low (when the market hold a selloff, when everyone is panic), and then sell some when the market recovers and everyone is excited again. This way we will

Reading Time: < 1 minute Yahoo launched its personal finance web site. Here is the link. Yahoo Finance already has lots of information about personal finance. But this time I think they are trying to separate it out from the “investing”. I think it’s good in the sense that ordinary people really don’t want to mess with stocks, they would

Reading Time: < 1 minute There are lots of praises for Home Inns (Rujia, most in Chinese). I saw this one in English. Actually from my own experience at four Home Inns in Shanghai I have both praises and complaints. So every coin has two sides. On serious side, I noticed after Home Inns developed the new hotels in Nanjing and Qingdao this year, they are developing very

Reading Time: < 1 minute This evening when I was in the TaekwonDo class, I counted the number of Crocs in my class. Out of 12 pairs of shoes, there are 3 pairs of Crocs. Seriously, I did a little analysis on the Crocs sales number in year 2005 and 2006. The growth is very impressive, but how long will the trend

Reading Time: < 1 minute To summerize, 17-Jan-07 CIBC Wrld Mkts Initiated   Sector Perform 17-Jan-07 JP Morgan Initiated   Overweight 17-Jan-07 Bear Stearns Initiated   Outperform 17-Jan-07 Wachovia Initiated   Mkt Perform The full story is here. I would not take their ratings too seriously (I would like to read their analysis instead). The 60% sales increase in California (No.

Reading Time: < 1 minute I summerized its year 2005 and 2006 (low end) number here. I noted that the revenue year over year growth slowed a bit (consider first 9 months growth about 41%). This can be attribute to the continuing “anti-corruption” campaign in China hospitals.                   2005               2006              YoY Rev (CNY)  1,078,573,000 1,470,000,000 36.29%      Income         205,089,000    360,000,000 75.53%      Earning (CNY)           2.40                3.73 55.42%

Reading Time: < 1 minute I don’t know why the stock went down this morning after a good earning report. Anyway guessing stock price’s daily fluctuation is not my job. I did listen to the conference call (script by seekingalpha) and it seems to me Michael and Louis did well, although Michael’s English is not perfect. Some of the growth driver:

Reading Time: < 1 minute This is what I got from Ameren UE web site. Note the number 1299 only reflects the outage of my neighborhood. From what I heard from radio Ameren tries to restore majority of customers by this evening.   Current Outage Outage start date/time:        Saturday Jan 13, 2007 7:01 AM Outage status:                    Order assigned to servicemen or crew Cause