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Press Digest for Friday
Spirit Lake Internment Camp [DOWNLOAD PODCAST]
[Editor: Will it happen again in this post 9/11 world?] The Current producer John Chipman took a powerful look at the quest for official recognition of the interning of Canadians of Ukrainian heritage during the First World War. The documentary is presented in its entirety. Chipman follows the story of Mary Manko Haskett, a Canadian-born child of Ukrainian immigrants. In 1915, those of Austro-Hungarian descent were deemed a security risk by the government of the day, so Mary, her two sisters and their parents were arrested under the War Measures Act and [...]
How Leverage Affects The Individual Trader
The past few years has seen its share of high-profile blowups in the hedge fund industry. Traders find it incredible that professional traders — hedge fund stars with all the resources at their fingertips — could be “this stupid”.
I can think of two reasons why this happened, and stupidity is not one of them. First, potential investors do not want to invest in a hedge fund that promises 10% per year. They want their risk capital to return a lot more, forcing hedge funds to squeeze blood from a stone with exotic strategies. Or else they [...]
Press Digest for Thursday
The next web revolution
In short, even the draw of knowing what your revenues are going to be from subscriptions doesn’t stand up against the lure of what you can make by attracting more internet advertising to your site. . . . And the simple rule of the game is that the more readers you have for your site, the more ad revenue you attract. The other part of this story – also related to advertising – is the endless rise of Google. Readers increasingly find news articles through search engines, and if your site requires a subscription, you [...]
Free: Brummell Magazine Online
Brummell bills itself as “The Little Black Book From The Financial News”. The October issue has been posted, free. [READ]
Press Digest for Wednesday
Axa’s Tinker Says U.S. Economy ‘Fine,’ Fed Need Not Cut
Mark Tinker, fund manager at Axa Framlington Ltd., talks with Bloomberg’s Mark Barton and Sara Walker in London about BHP Billiton Ltd.’s bid for Rio Tinto Ltd., demand for metals and the outlook for the U.S economy and Federal Reserve monetary policy.
Trichet Says Yuan Gains ‘Good Way’ to Cool China Growth
European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet talks with Bloomberg’s Vincent Touraine in Beijing about his meetings with Chinese officials, China’s economy and the valuation of the yuan. The meetings with Chinese officials also included European Union Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin [...]
NovaGold: Gold mining is not as easy as it looks
Yes, gold is going up, but investing in gold miners is never as easy as it looks.
The problem, of course, is how to get more gold. Unlike past gold rushes, this cycle is plagued by higher production costs (environmental regulation, lack of engineers) and uncertainty (gyrating prices and currencies). Even sitting on a gold mine in a bull market is no guarantee, as investors in Teck and their partner, NovaGold (NG:AMEX) found out yesterday, having spent $800 million so far:
Teck Cominco, NovaGold step back from Galore Creek plan
“It is indeed a very disappointing moment,” Teck [...]
Weekend Press Digest
How the eco-footprint concept can be applied in everyday life [PODCAST]
When it comes to environmental footprints – many of us are like the ugly stepsisters in Cinderella — trying to pretend our feet are smaller than they really are. Today on Sounds Like Canada — it’s truth time, and time to find out how the eco-footprint concept can be applied in everyday life. Shelagh talks to the man who invented the term “ecological footprint,” University of British Columbia professor William Rees.
Oil and the dollar
The depreciation of the dollar has certainly been the focus of much discussion by reasonable people [...]
VIDEO: Bargain-hunting Financial Stocks
Instead of shopping, I gave video another try.
Seems like it’s working much better now, so let’s take a look at two beaten-down financial stocks: CountryFried Financial and CitiCorpse.
PCLN: Name Your Own Stock Price
The stock scan conducted after Wednesday’s trading was lopsided to say the least. 1 winner: 190 losers. And the winner was the one, the only, Priceline.
In the early days of the travel discount industry, I used sites like Hotels.com but stopped once participating hotels began providing “internet rates” that guaranteed that I would not find a lower price on any other website. The industry had a few lean years, but it came back with a twist on the old business model that stopped driving down the online prices for their suppliers and increased the [...]
Trading Ideas for Friday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Wednesday found 1 winner and 190 losers.
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These stocks have been ranked and sorted with the rest of our lists: the largest 300 ETFs by total assets, the constituent stocks of the NASDAQ 100 and the S&P 100 indexes, the list of optionable CBOE, AMEX and PHLX indexes, and futures and currencies. Buy and sell signals are listed in The InVivo Database.
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Press Digest for Thursday
So Now You Know
In other words, the FOMC is saying that, if the Fed (i.e., they themselves) does what they think it should, GDP is going to be growing more slowly and inflation is going to be lower three years from now than a forecast that did not condition on the assumption of such Fed behavior would have anticipated. I believe the spirit of this exercise is to communicate to us that if GDP is growing at 3% in 2010 but inflation is not under 2%, they intend to raise interest rates to bring both down.
A tale of two [...]
Trading Ideas for Wednesday
The stock scan conducted after the close on Tuesday found 2 winners and 168 losers.
» DOWNLOAD SPREADSHEET
These stocks have been ranked and sorted with the rest of our lists: the largest 300 ETFs by total assets, the constituent stocks of the NASDAQ 100 and the S&P 100 indexes, the list of optionable CBOE, AMEX and PHLX indexes, and futures and currencies. Buy and sell signals are listed in The InVivo Database.
Please use the Free Viewer if you do not have Excel installed on your computer.
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