Archive for August, 2008
Home prices have stopped falling – statistics are skewed
This excerpt from a response to the Sacramento Bee real estate blog gives me doubts concerning the “accuracy” of the median price data of the current crop of existing home sales. If you are a regular reader here you know I have been tracking the Sacramento area real estate market for several months. If not, [...]
New Energy Finance – NEX – Weekly Review
Each week I provide a review of the previous week’s performance of the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index, symbol NEX. This information is provided by New Energy Finance. The NEX consists of about 90 stocks from 20 countries in seven sectors and is the bogey for the PowerShares Global Clean Energy Fund (PBD: 13.025 [...]
Home sales up 73% in Sacramento
Top Stories – Home sales up again across Sacramento region – sacbee.com. Existing home sales in the Sacramento region increased in July for the 4th straight month and posted a 4th straight year over year increase. Existing home sales in July were 5% higher that June 2008 66% higher than July 2007. Homes sales have [...]
Jeff Matthews on Warren Buffet
One of my favorite blogging reads, Jeff Matthews, (link on my blogroll) has written a book on his trip and insights to the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. Jeff is very entertaining and I look forward to reading his book, due to be released on October 4. You can pre-order the book at Amazon and I [...]
Quarterly earnings results
Over the last few weeks I have been keeping track of the earnings results for the stocks I track in the two portfolios I have on this site. As the earnings came out I read the press releases, listened to the conference calls and tried to decide if the companies were still good investments. I [...]
