日期：2007-10-13 08:03:05 点击：0 评论：0

In our first installment of Float like a Butterfly, (9/28/08), we discussed the make-up of the strategy. This week, we want to go through the steps of choosing a stock to use a butterfly on so that we can track it and see how it works in the real wo

日期：2007-10-12 08:15:17 点击：0 评论：0

The Chicago Cubs were recently bounced from Major League Baseball's playoffs by the Arizona Diamondbacks. We should have seen it coming. Forget goats and curses. This was all about the numbers. And the numbers said Arizona had the better team. The Cu

日期：2007-10-12 08:15:03 点击：0 评论：0

As the market pulls further from its Aug. 29 follow-through, finding stocks primed to make gains can get tougher. One searching strategy is to identify rising industry groups and sift through them for star players. One of the best tools for finding i

日期：2007-10-12 08:14:45 点击：0 评论：0

So we're in a confirmed uptrend that's part of the bull market that started in March 2003. Aside from some corrections, the market has provided plenty of opportunities for investors to make money in stocks. But despite the solid gains many leading st

日期：2007-10-12 08:14:13 点击：0 评论：0

Steel stocks fell from record highs Wednesday amid a broad sell-off in the US stock market. As the Dow Jones Industrial Average () tumbled 140 points in midday trading, the SIG Steel Sector Index () was down 6 points to 600 and change. The steel ind

日期：2007-10-12 08:13:52 点击：0 评论：0

Everybody talks. If you stop and listen, you will hear all kinds of different people say all kinds of different things. This is especially true when it comes to the financial markets. Whatever your personal opinion is about anything, you can easily

日期：2007-10-12 08:13:29 点击：0 评论：0

Several types of events can impact the marketplace and stir up consensus opinion, which can set up the potential for major surprises if the crowd is indeed wrong. In this installment of Outside the Box we will review some important catalysts that ne

日期：2007-10-12 08:13:12 点击：0 评论：0

Lately there has been a rash of news articles and TV interviews touting the outsized returns earned by endowment funds and so-called sovereign wealth funds, which are pools of capital that state or national treasuries set aside for investment. These

日期：2007-10-12 08:12:52 点击：0 评论：0

Cigarettes. Booze. Gambling. Rock and roll. Wide economic moats. Which of these terms is out of place? Rock and roll. Any hack can pick up a guitar, learn three chords, persuade a couple of buddies to grow big hair and six months later become the nex

日期：2007-10-11 08:41:01 点击：0 评论：0

LCDX was the newest piece of artillery in the credit derivatives armoury when the index - allowing investors to buy and sell protection on the loans of 100 US companies with high-yield, high-risk ratings - was launched by a group of banks in May. Las

日期：2007-10-11 08:40:44 点击：0 评论：0

"Between the idea/And the reality/Between the motion/And the act/Falls the Shadow." T.S. Eliot should be required reading for those grappling with the latest philosophical debate on Wall Street. Between the mark and the price (of a mortgage-backed se

日期：2007-10-11 08:40:27 点击：0 评论：0

GM to put brakes on car thieves General Motors' OnStar will offer a service in '09 models that will allow call-center operators to remotely cut engine power to stolen OnStar-equipped vehicles. That'll help police in hot pursuit. OnStar uses GPS techn

日期：2007-10-11 08:40:08 点击：0 评论：0

Google may have finally found a way to cash in on YouTube, but it could take a while before the register starts to sing. A year after the Web's No. 1 search engine bought YouTube, the top site for watching videos online, Google (NasdaqGS: - ) says it

日期：2007-10-11 08:39:43 点击：0 评论：0

As online ad spending has surged, so too has demand for tools that help marketers see how well their campaigns are working. In 2006, Internet ad revenue in the U.S. climbed 35% to $16.9 billion, says a report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau, or

日期：2007-10-11 08:37:09 点击：0 评论：0

Akzo Nobel (NASDAQ:AKZOY)'s management is on the road this week. With one eye on the November 5 shareholder vote to approve its EU12bn takeover of ICI, executives are promoting the company's "year of transformation". This is often corporate shorthand