Archive for January, 2009:

Five winning Super Bowl trades: III. Buy Grupo Televisa SA (TV)

{ Posted on Jan 31 2009 by Andrew Houghton & Nick Atkeson }
Categories : All, BloggingStocks
Filed under: Stocks to BuyOne billion people will be watching the Super Bowl, but 5.7 billion others couldn't care less. In the United States, we love football -- the rest of the world, loves futbol (soccer). Grupo Televisa SA (NYSE: ...Read More »

Five winning Super Bowl trades: III. Buy Grupo Televisa SA (TV)

{ Posted on Jan 31 2009 by Andrew Houghton & Nick Atkeson }
Categories : All, BloggingStocks
Filed under: Stocks to BuyOne billion people will be watching the Super Bowl, but 5.7 billion others couldn't care less. In the United States, we love football -- the rest of the world, loves futbol (soccer). Grupo Televisa SA (NYSE: ...Read More »

Comfort Zone Investing: Should you even be buying stocks?

{ Posted on Jan 31 2009 by Ted Allrich }
Categories : All, BloggingStocks
Filed under: Comfort Zone Investing, Headline news, RecessionTed Allrich is the founder of The Online Investor and author of the book: Comfort Zone Investing: Build Wealth and Sleep Well at Night. In this weekly column, he'll offer advice to investors ...Read More »

Earnings highlights: Amazon, Boeing, Caterpillar, Hershey, AT&T and others

{ Posted on Jan 31 2009 by Trey Thoelcke }
Categories : All, BloggingStocks
Filed under: Earnings reports, Amazon.com (AMZN), AT and T (T), Caterpillar (CAT), Boeing Co (BA), Hershey Co (HSY), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Sun Microsystems (JAVA), Eastman Kodak (EK), QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Tyson Foods'A' (TSN), Freep't McMoRan Copper (FCX)Here are some highlights from ...Read More »

Five winning Super Bowl trades: I. Buy U.S. Steel (X)

{ Posted on Jan 31 2009 by Chris Johnson }
Categories : All, BloggingStocks
Filed under: U.S. Steel (X), Stocks to BuyYou can't talk about the Steelers and the stock market without thinking about U.S. Steel (NYSE: X). The company's headquarters pierces the Pittsburgh skyline like the Steelers' defense pierces opposing offensive lines. The U.S. ...Read More »

Kellogg’s looking at new cereal boxes

{ Posted on Jan 31 2009 by Mark Fightmaster }
Categories : All, BloggingStocks
Filed under: Marketing and advertising, Kellogg Co (K)Looking back at the first month of the new year, I realize that the wife and I did quite a bit of "uncluttering": bags of old clothes donated to the local Goodwill, a ...Read More »

Superbowl ad won’t save E*Trade

{ Posted on Jan 31 2009 by Douglas McIntyre }
Categories : All, BloggingStocks
Filed under: Marketing and advertising, Charles Schwab Corp (SCHW), TD AmeriTrade Holding (AMTD), E*TRADE (ETFC)Discount broker E*Trade (NASDAQ: ETFC) will run its famous "talking baby" TV ad during the Superbowl. It won't help the failing company. The stock is still ...Read More »

Earnings highlights: Ford, P&G, Wells Fargo, Starbucks, DuPont, Halliburton and others

{ Posted on Jan 31 2009 by Trey Thoelcke }
Categories : All, BloggingStocks
Filed under: Earnings reports, Starbucks (SBUX), Ford Motor (F), 3M Corporation (MMM), Halliburton (HAL), Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), Altria Group (MO), Black and Decker (BDK), ConocoPhillips (COP), Procter and Gamble (PG), Verizon Communications (VZ), duPont(E.I.)deNemours (DD), Amgen Inc (AMGN), Honeywell Intl ...Read More »

Is there a new reality on Wall Street pay?

{ Posted on Jan 31 2009 by Peter Cohan }
Categories : All, BloggingStocks
Filed under: Management, Financial CrisisOne of the questions that I spent this week discussing is this: What was Wall Street thinking? Whether it's using taxpayer money to pay itself $18.4 billion in bonuses or to buy a $50 million corporate ...Read More »

Five winning Super Bowl trades: II. Short MGM Mirage (MGM)

{ Posted on Jan 31 2009 by Michael Shulman }
Categories : All, BloggingStocks
Filed under: Stocks to SellIn an economy like this, is anyone going to the game? Yes -- but Pittsburgh people will stay in their cars (hotels are too expensive), and the Arizona people will stay in foreclosed houses (so they ...Read More »