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The Worst Investment Advice You Can Get
Suppose you went out to your garage late one night and saw a huge snake coiled up in the corner.
If you grabbed a shovel and gave it a few good whacks, you might feel pleased with yourself.
But if you turned on the light and found that you’d just cut your garden hose in half, you might feel a little sheepish.
Unfortunately, too many frightened investors are taking a shovel to their stock portfolios right now. Worse still, their investment advisors are goading them on.
I can’t tell you how many times in the past two weeks I’ve heard talking heads in the…
1Oct2008 | Investment U | Comments Off | ContinuedFool me 118,298 times, shame on you…
The tagline for The Motley Fool’s web site reads, “To Educate, Amuse, and Enrichâ„¢.â€
Really.
Let me begin by saying that I have read articles on Motley Fool (among countless other investment-related sites) extensively, and many of them… dare I say most, are well-founded. However, let me tell you what is not well-founded. A group of 118,000+ investors rattling on about which stocks they believe will outperform or underperform the market. The site boasts that this group of investment “experts†have made more than 2.5 million stock recommendations thus far. There is a stringent selection process to join this team of financial…
26Sep2008 | Oxbury Research | Comments Off | ContinuedGlobal Investing Roundups
Another Coal Merger; Pickens Denounces Yahoo; Possible UK/Spain Airline Merger; Alcatel-Lucent Ousts Top Brass; Consumer Confidence Climbs from 10-Year Low; Home Prices Continue Collapse; Northrop Grumman Sees Second Quarter Profit Soar; U.S. Steel’s Ironclad Earnings
-Teck Cominco Ltd. (TCK) yesterday (Tuesday) announced that it would purchase Fording Canadian Coal Trust (FDG) in a combination cash and stock deal valued at $14.1 billion. Vancouver-based Teck already owns approximately 20% of Calgary-based Fording, Reuters reported. This deal will give Teck full control over Elk Valley Coal, the second-largest exporter of seaborne hard-coking coal, which is used in steelmaking.
-Famous billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens…
30Jul2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | ContinuedWhy Doing Nothing is the Right Investment Strategy
Nobody likes watching the stock price of a great company in their portfolio sink into the sunset. But with the market’s ongoing case of indigestion, that’s exactly what’s happening.
So what can you do?
Well, the other night – as my family and I were watching a Seinfeld re-run on TV – the answer hit me.
In this particular episode, George and Jerry were trying to sell the president of NBC on the merits of a TV show about “nothing.” (Mind you, they were already IN a show about nothing.)
Right then, I decided to follow their lead and write about… well, why doing…
29Jul2008 | Investment U | Comments Off | Continued
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