There are three topics that you can write or talk about that are almost guaranteed to draw a audience, stocks (because greed drives us all), sex (no reason needed) and salvation...
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February 4 - News, Stock Analysis
In my time in corporate finance and valuation, I have seen many "new and revolutionary" ideas emerge, each one marketed as the solution to all of the problems that businesses ...
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September 22 - News
After big market movements, we are eager to look for explanations, fundamental reasons why a stock or stocks collectively moved on that day, but the reality is that a great deal...
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September 2 - News, Stock Analysis, Tech
When I started these updates on February 26, 2020, about two weeks after the markets went into free fall, my first six posts were titled "Viral Market Meltdowns", reflecting the...
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August 21 - News, Stock Analysis, Tech
As some of you who have visited my website and read my bio know, I describe myself first and foremost as a teacher, and every semester, for the last decade, I have invited anyone...
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August 7 - News, Stock Analysis, Tech
In the weeks since my first update on the crisis on February 26, 2020, the markets have been on a roller coaster ride, as equity markets around the world collectively lost $30...
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May 14 - ETF Trading, News, Quantitative Investing
Update on 3.9/20: In a sign of how volatile times are, over the weekend, oil prices plummeted to close to $30, the treasury bond rate to less than 0.4% and the market looks set...
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March 10 - Commodities, Economy, News
I was hoping to move on from Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) to my data update posts, but my last post on Tesla drew some attention, in good and bad ways, partly because of its timing...
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February 7 - News, Stock Analysis, Tech
When investing, I am often my own biggest adversary, handicapped by the preconceptions and priors that I bring into analysis and decision making, and no company epitomizes the...
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January 31 - News, Stock Analysis, Tech
As readers of this blog know, I don't write much about whether stocks collectively are over or under priced, other than my usual start of the year posts about markets or in response...
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October 2 - Macroeconomic Predictions, News, Stock Analysis
As a confession, I started this post intending to write about Peloton Interactive, Inc.
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September 18 - IPOs, News, Stock Analysis, Tech
In a big year for initial public offerings (IPOs), with Uber, Lyft, Pinterest and Zoom, to name just a few, already having gone public and more companies waiting in the wings, ...
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June 14 - News, Stock Analysis
It should come as no surprise to anyone that Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) is back in the news, though it seems to be for all of the wrong reasons.
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June 4 - News, Stock Analysis, Tech
On February 22, Kraft Heinz Co (NASDAQ: KHC) shocked investors with a trifecta of bad news in its earnings report: sub-par operating results, a mention of accounting irregularities...
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March 1 - Hedge Funds, News, Stock Analysis
In September, I took a look, in a series of posts, at two companies that had crested the trillion dollar market cap mark, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Amazon.com, Inc.
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December 4 - News, Stock Analysis, Tech
It seems like ancient history, but it was just 2001, when General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) was the most valuable company in the world, commanding a market capitalization in ...
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November 15 - News, Stock Analysis
In a discussion on the IPO market, CNBC’s ‘Squawk on the Street’ team discussed the IPO of GoPro Inc. (NASDAQ:GPRO).
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July 7 - News, Options, Tech
If one stock that should convincingly sit in an investor's portfolio for now is Qihoo 360 Technology Co Ltd (NYSE:QIHU), according to FBN's Charles Payne.
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July 3 - News, Tech
General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) has again shocked the market with it’s another set of new recalls totalling 8.45 million cars in North America, thereby raising eyebrows over...
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July 2 - News, Uncategorized
In a recent interview with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang, LinkedIn Corp.
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June 30 - News, Tech
I taught the first session of my valuation class, that I previewed in my last post, today.
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September 5 - News
