Archive for April, 2008
City Bank has flat 1st quarter
My favorite City Bank (CTBK: 5.50 0.00 0.00%) is the regional bank located in Washington state. Yesterday they released their results for the 1st quarter of 2008 and results were mixed. The major financial media laser-focused on the fact that net earnings fell about 6% but I hope to give a little more in-depth analysis [...]
Beating the stock market
http://blogs.forbes.com/digitalrules/2008/04/two-ways-to-bea.html
This recent blog post by Forbes columnist Rich Karlgaard started me thinking about may methods and plans to generate better than average returns. I like reading Rich because he is a perennial bull/optimist on stocks. Most of the current financial info in the web is so much gloom and doom. Reading the comments to articles [...]
Classic value stock - Rex Stores Corp.
I was reading one of Jeff Matthews comments the other day and he was discussing comments by the CEO of Rex Stores Corp (RSC: 7.71 0.00 0.00%). Jeff’s comments usually pique my interest so I took a look at Rex Stores. At first glance, you want to take a deeper look, the company has a [...]
New Energy Index - Quarterly results and update
I let this slip by without even thinking about it. The New Energy Index (NEX) re-balances and adds/removes stocks at the end of each quarter. The NEX is tracked by the PowerShares Global Clean Energy Fund ETF (PBD: 13.31 0.00 0.00%). I do a weekly update on the NEX, so here I will just bullet [...]
New Energy Index - NEX - Weekly Update
Back again with my weekly report on renewable energy stocks. First an admin note; I have changed the category for all of these weekly updates to renewable energy. You can check the category or go to my articles page to get previous write ups on the New Energy Index. Now back to your regular programming.
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