Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 24th, 2008
US stock rise on JPMorgan offer

March 24 – U.S. stocks went up after JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased its bid for Bear Stearns Cos., and sales of existing homes unexpectedly rose. JPMorgan quadrupled its offer for Bear to $10 a share. Bear Stearns climbed $6.75, or 113 percent, to $12.71. JPMorgan will exchange stock worth about $10 for each Bear [...]

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Commodity fell

The commodity collapse the biggest in at least five decades. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index posted its first weekly gain in a month, and the dollar leapt from its lowest level since 1973. It’s look like the Fed has done the right move.
Investors who had poured money into gold, oil and corn, seeking a [...]

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Intel, Packeteer

Intel Ups Payout – March 21, 2008 – Forbes.com Market News: Chipmaker raises dividend as it readies cheap computer.
Packeteer Bid Turns Hostile – March 21, 2008 – Forbes.com Market News: Frustrated shareholder launches tender offer for network firm.
Palm Can’t Pull Out Of Its Slump – March 21, 2008 – Forbes.com Market News: The smart-phone maker [...]

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Fed cut main lending rate to 2.25 percent

March 18 — The Federal Reserve cut its main lending rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to 2.25 percent as officials try to recover the economy and restore faith in the U.S and global market. The credit problem cause banks reluctant to lend to each other. Due to worries of inflation, the Fed are [...]

Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Bear Stearns receive emergency fund

Bear Stearns, the big five of investment bank in US, will receive emergency fund from The Fed through JP MOrgan. This is the first time the Fed gave loan to a non-bank. Bear Strearns is one of the subprime mortgage victim. According to AFP, Bear Stearns President and CEO admitted that they are having liquidity [...]

Friday, March 14th, 2008
S&P – end of subprime writedowns is near

March 13 — Standard & Poor’s(S&P), the ratings company says the end of subprime writedowns is near. S&P reported Writedowns from subprime-tied securities will probably rise to $285 billion, or $20 billion more than S&P forecast two months ago. More than $150 billion have been reported already by banks, brokers and insurers. S&P raised its [...]

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Carlyle default

March 13, Carlyle Group bond fund said it defaulted on $16.6 billion in debt. This has cause U.S. stocks to fell again. Retail sales which dropped also add the presure. The dollar slid to a 12-year low against the yen after tumbling home-loan assets left the Carlyle fund insolvent. The dollar fell below 100 yen [...]

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
US Stocks rallied

March 11 . U.S. stocks rallied the most in five years after Federal Reserve said it will pump $200 billion into the financial system. The S&P 500 added 47.28 points, or 3.7 percent, to 1,320.65, trimming its decline for the year to 10 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gain 416.66, or 3.6 percent, to [...]

Monday, March 10th, 2008
Canslim

CAN SLIM is a growth stock investment strategy developed by William O’Neill, the co-founder of “Investor Business Dailly” / IBD. He described his strategy in the book How To Make Money In Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad, 3rd Edition. The goal of the strategy is to discover leading stocks before they [...]

Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Value investing

Value investing is a popular stock-picking method. Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, finance professors at Columbia University, laid out what many consider to be the framework for value investing. The concept is actually very simple: find companies trading below their inherent worth. Warren Buffet is the second riches man on earth by this article made, [...]

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