Archive for April, 2008
New reading material
I have felt stagnated lately with the financial news and blog I have been reading, so I decided to research some new sources. I went to one of my favorite sources of information, Jeff at a Dash of Insight and clicked through his blogroll.
I found some interesting reading and ended up adding a few links [...]
Terra Nitrogen cycles again
The recent run-up in the price of Terra Nitrogen Co. LP (TNH: 87.19 -2.81 -3.12%) has made me take a look at the recent quarterly price cycles of this stock. The results are very interesting. I have TNH in this site’s Income Portfolio because this fertilizer MLP has been raising it’s dividend at a tremendous [...]
Copa Airlines - future growth?
I am not a big fan of airline stocks. As long as I have been watching stocks (30 years), outside of Southwest Airlines (LUV: 8.43 +0.13 +1.57%), they seem to spend more time losing money than making it. These are business with huge overhead costs that think nothing of slashing fares to win a bidding [...]
BlackRock CIO give good reasons for Stocks!
Ten reasons to like U.S. equities: BlackRock | Business | Reuters
It is good to see the above reasons in print. I try to think contrarian when all of the world seems pessimistic. But man, the stuff you read can get to you. I think the first reason is the most important (maybe that is why [...]
New Energy Index - NEX - Weekly Update
Once again, info is sent to me and I pass it along. If you are new the NEX is a index that of about 90 renewable energy stocks from about 20 countries. The PowerShares Global Clean Energy Fund (PBD: 10.19 -0.59 -5.47%) is the ETF that tracks the New Energy Index. Each week I review [...]
