I came across this interesting post on the indirect effect of sub-prime lending practices on consumer spending via the MSN Message Boards: The Sub-Prime Debacle Will Stall Revenues for Retail Companies 1. the sub-prime debacle is making it harder to get credit for those that don’t deserve credit (what a concept). 2. a lot of [...]

So far this weekend, I’m working on picking up a few more websites to invest in. So this weekend’s edition is on Domain Investing. Sedo Guide to Domain Investing – This is a great beginner’s guide to domain investing. I also have an account with Sedo, and plan to buy some international domains in the [...]

If you think losing 4% of your portfolio is bad, try swallowing $700,000 in losses in only 3 months. Sometimes Success Comes Too Quickly The February 27th global market sell off caused his drastic Singapore stock market losses. When the engineering student turned $100k into $110k within days, his greed for money grew and grew. [...]

Kunal was spot on with his assertion, so I had to share some link love. He said this in response to my Dow Jones Stock Sale post: From a technical standpoint, we are still in a correction/pullback mode. Usually during bearish conditions, things can be very erratic. Sub-Prime Defaults worried the bigs on Wall Street [...]

Over the weekend, I listened to EFJ’s 4th quarter and Fiscal 2006 earnings call, in hopes of gaining insight as to why the stock lost over $1 between 03/06/2007 and 03/08/2007. As expected, the conference call revealed a few leaks in forward sales and earnings estimates for EFJ, Inc in 2007. Thoughts on the Conference [...]