Archive for September, 2008
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: 14.97 [...]
Probably not the end of the world
Don’t call it a bailout – MarketWatch.
I sit here this morning watching the stock markets continue to fall on fears about the financial system. I have been wondering why the problems in the financials have spread so strongly to other sectors where many companies are in good financial shape and continue to grow their businesses. [...]
Reduction in Financial Preferred ETF
As I am now actively managing this site’s Income Portfolio, I am trying to decide how much of the trading I want to share in posts. Right now I am leaning towards putting up a notice when I make a major position change or something similar. Today I decided to reduce the position in the [...]
Taking a risk with 20% yields
(SBLK: 2.89 +0.07 +2.48%) (AWP: 6.48 -0.02 -0.31%)
During my recent stock research I have come across of a couple of investments that are paying dividends in the neighborhood of 20% per year. In normal times, stocks with these kind of yields are big fat warnings that something is wrong with the security and the high [...]
Sacramento housing down to 4 months inventory
Business – Home Front: Home inventory trimmed in capital, W. Sac – sacbee.com.
The article from the Sacramento Bee linked above provides more clues that the bottom may be near for the Sacramento region real estate market. My contention has been that the recent sales increases in the Sacramento and Las Vegas regions are indicators [...]
