Archive for March, 2009
Has the economy turned positive?
A couple of weeks ago I decided to take a sabbatical from writing on this site. I could not take the negative news and falling markets and still try to write posts of a positive nature. Since then (March 11) things have turned pretty positive. The stock market bottomed (this time) two days before my [...]
Good news for Gigamedia: What does it mean?
Note: my hosting service had some issues with my databases and I had to roll back to the backup databases several days old. This is a “reprint” of my last post, so subscribers will be seeing it again.
Frank to Push to Repeal U.S. Online Gambling Ban
In a normal world the news linked above would [...]
Some good analysis on the economy
Jeff over at A Dash of Insight has published a couple of articles concerning finding a bottom to the market. I think Jeff takes a very insightful, analytic approach to the subjects he writes about and these hit the button for me. I have been trying to understand why the markets continue to discount bad [...]
New Energy Finance – NEX – Weekly Review
Each week I recap the results of the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index, symbol NEX, and published by New Energy Finance Ltd. The index consists of approximately 90 stocks from 22 countries. The NEX is the tracking index for the PowerShares Global Clean Energy Portfolio ETF (PBD: 14.914 -0.027 -0.18%). For reference, the NEX [...]
Atlas Pipeline Partners plans to deleverage
I just went through the quarterly conference call for Atlas Pipeline Partners (APL: 14.18 -0.08 -0.56%) and the news is encouraging. First, I will state that the current market mentality does not reward companies that are able to continue to prosper or are working to improve their results in the current economic environment. I am [...]
