Showing posts with label Links. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Links. Show all posts

Monday, November 12, 2007

Market Notes and Links of Interest

The Dow closed below 13,000 points. When indexes are advancing, big numbers like 12,000 or 13,000 tend to create a sort of frothing-at-the-mouth confidence among investors. Is the opposite true when the direction is reversed?

Anytime would be a good time to buy into gold; today would be a great time.

Another sign of America's laziness?

The US Dollar: rock bottom is yet to come.

Intel has gone green.

Beware online trading sites. Even the biggies are susceptible to problems.

Google and Firefox: a marriage of technology.

Solar stocks run into a congressional problem.

Friday, October 19, 2007

Links Worth Mentioning...

The Dow Remembers. To celebrate the twenty year anniversary of the Black Monday crash, the Dow shed 366 points.

Are there big things happening at Maguire Properties?

Housing starts:
things will get worse.

Halo 3 is the
video game barometer. Sales blow away forecasts.

Will natural resources become the
biggest boom ever?

Citing too much speculation, Barron's Online offers the possibility of an oil crash.

Torre to Steinbrenner: NO! Good for Joe!

In California, Napa Valley
doesn't hold a candle to Humboldt.

More from California: Schwarzenegger intends to privatize the state lottery.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Links Worth Mentioning...

Henry Paulson finally admits two things about the housing market:
(1) It poses a threat to the greater economy, and (2) It's not done unfolding.


Paulson also declares that there will be no bailout for the lenders or property speculators.

Freezing ARM rates
wouldn't be a bandaid; it'd be a series of stitches that could stop the bleeding...at least for a while. Obviously, it's not good for business. Should that matter?

In a story related to real estate, homebuilder confidence is at a NEW all time low.

Speaking of homebuilders, orders for new homes plunged 39 percent for DR Horton.

Are US consumers completely tapped out?? That would be disastrous given our current situation. I heard somewhere that consumerism accounts for two-thirds of the US economy. Scary.

Dow 22,000...the result of a devalued dollar??

Q and A for a weak dollar.

Crude tops records. Is retail gas soon to follow?