WBWFCChasing Value: Wells Fargo is getting weird12/02/08
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Filed under: Rants and raves, Money and Finance Today, Wachovia Corp (WB), Wells Fargo (WFC), Chasing Value, Stocks to Buy, Best Stocks for 2008This has been a terrible year for financial institutions. However, Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) has been able to make it through the obstacle course better than m...
AAPLChasing Value: Apple may be one again12/01/08
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Filed under: Products and services, Management, Competitive strategy, Apple Inc (AAPL), iPhone, Chasing Value, Stocks to Buy, TechnologyThere are few topics as popular on BloggingStocks as Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), one of the original eight we focused on. In the past 52 weeks, the stock has fallen f...
GOOGMSFTMicrosoft & Google: Battle in the clouds12/01/08
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Filed under: Conventions and conferences, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT)A battle royal is shaping up in the world of cloud computing between long-standing dominant software giant Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and its biggest threat of the past few years, internet runaway Google (NAS...
GOOGYHOOBerkshire beats Google all the way!11/26/08
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Filed under: Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Money and Finance Today, Entrepreneurs, Bargain stocksHere's a shocker (although not really to those paying attention), if you would have invested in Berkshire Hathaway Inc....
GOOGAmazing but true: Google vs S&P 50011/26/08
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Filed under: Forecasts, Other issues, Rants and raves, Google (GOOG), Indices, Market matters, Technical Analysis, S and P 500, Stocks to Buy, RecessionIf you are a stock trader you might have made money using Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) as an instrument of the trade. If you were someone jumping on the ban...
GEChasing Value: GE -- the water & power company11/25/08
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Filed under: International markets, Other issues, Competitive strategy, General Electric (GE), Chasing Value, Commodities, Stocks to Buy, RecessionMuch has been written about the trouble General Electric's (NYSE: GE) Financial Services division is having in the current global crises centered on high-...
Sunday Funnies: All infrastructure for Dan11/23/08
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Filed under: International markets, Management, Industry, Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, Politics, Sunday Funnies, Headline news, Recession, Financial CrisisBlogging for AOL has been an interesting experience over the last few years. For me it is one of those unplanned surprising things that ...
PGGSIs Berkshire Hathaway better than S&P Index?11/21/08
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Filed under: General Electric (GE), Coca-Cola (KO), Home Depot (HD), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), American Express (AXP), ConocoPhillips (COP), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Procter and Gamble (PG), Lowe's Cos (LOW), Kraft Foods'A' (KFT), Wells Fargo (WFC), S and P 500, Burlingt...
WMJPMBanking stupidity, then and now11/19/08
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Filed under: Other issues, Deals, Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Washington Mutual (WM), Entrepreneurs, HousingEighteen months ago, banks were throwing money around with very little discretion. Now we find that they made a lot of bad loans, took extreme risk and jeopardi...
JNJMDTChasing Value: Feds single source Intuitive Surgical11/18/08
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Filed under: International markets, Press releases, Products and services, Competitive strategy, Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Chasing Value, Stocks to Buy, Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG), TechnologyYesterday, in response to Chasing Value: ISRG is falling and I'm buying I received the following comment f...
JNJMDTChasing Value: Feds single source Intuitive Surgical11/18/08
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Filed under: International markets, Press releases, Products and services, Competitive strategy, Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Chasing Value, Stocks to Buy, Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG), TechnologyYesterday, in response to Chasing Value: ISRG is falling and I'm buying I received the following comment f...
CBGSunday Funnies: White collar gambling11/17/08
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Filed under: Major movement, Other issues, Rants and raves, Sunday FunniesA former senior manager at CB Richard Ellis Group (NYSE: CBG) in Southern California, now a partner at a private real estate company where I am an investor said to me this week that the stock market was just "white collar gambl...
ANEBAYSerious Money: eBay auction off eBay11/14/08
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Filed under: Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, Cisco Systems (CSCO), eBay (EBAY), Amazon.com (AMZN), AutoNation Inc (AN), Serious Money, TechnologyThis is the fourth in a four part series which I hope gives buyers, sellers, shareholders and dare I say management a platform for discussion.
This w...
VWMSerious Money: eBay auction off PayPal -- create bidding war11/13/08
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Filed under: International markets, Deals, Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), eBay (EBAY), Amazon.com (AMZN), Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), American Express (AXP), Bank of America (BAC), Merrill Lynch (MER), MasterCard Inc'A' (MA), Countrywide Financia...
KMXAZOSerious Money: eBay should auction off eBay Motors11/12/08
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Filed under: Other issues, Rants and raves, eBay (EBAY), Amazon.com (AMZN), Ford Motor (F), General Motors (GM), Toyota Motor Corp. (TM), AutoNation Inc (AN), AutoZone Inc (AZO), Autobytel Inc (ABTL), Serious MoneyThis is the second in a four part series which I hope gives buyers, sellers, shareholde...
TWCCMCSASerious Money: eBay should auction off Skype11/11/08
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Filed under: Consumer experience, Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Cisco Systems (CSCO), eBay (EBAY), AT and T (T), Sprint Nextel Corp (S), Clear Channel Commun (CCU), Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA), Verizon Communications (VZ), Time Warner Cable (TWC), Serious MoneyThis is the first in a...
AAUKChasing Value: Anglo American on sale11/07/08
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Filed under: Market matters, Bargain stocks, Chasing Value, Commodities, Anglo Amer ADR (AAUK), Stocks to BuyOn more than one occasion, "my pal Warren" has commented that folks have no fear about buying stocks at the top of the market but give them a chance to buy that same stock on sale at half the ...
YHOOMSFTMSFT/YHOO: Jerry Yang, are you kidding?11/06/08
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Filed under: Deals, Rumors, Management, Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO)For some reason this morning several high profile stories I have been ranting about in recent months have floated to the top of the headline heap again.I just read that Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) ...
Re-think new stimulous package? Push infrastructure!11/06/08
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Filed under: International markets, Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, Politics, Headline news, Recession, Financial CrisisCNBC is reporting a Second Stimulus May Arrive by Christmas - I hope it looks different than the last one.It is being reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday ur...
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