Chris Dixon points out one of the key reasons Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) became one of the great contemporary business success stories. There’s a lesson here for contrarian investors of any stripe. – – – When Google released its search engine in 1998, its search results were significantly better than its […]
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Have a hard time waking up in the morning? Try this alarm clock, which begins shredding a dollar bill (your choice of denomination) from the time the alarm goes off. Be careful, though – Mashable reminds us that willfully destroying American currency is a federal offense. Source: “Money-Shredding Alarm Clock […]
The Australian satirical comics Clarke and Dawe take on the European debt crisis and the fragile world economy: Source: “Clark and Dawe: Lending merry-go-round” YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D0VhS8qXT0
By Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica HBO’s “Too Big To Fail” – I just caught up with it last night; thank you, HBO On Demand – is extraordinarily revealing about the financial crisis. Only its revelations are almost entirely inadvertent. The movie is set up in the Hollywood conventional way: A gang […]
women to be portfolio managers on Covestor. Of the many models we currently offer, only one is managed primarily by a woman - Vivian Lewis' International
Online brokerage Zecco announced a new Facebook app that provides real-time stock quotes, charts, discussion and yes, active trading from within Facebook. It also gives users the ability to ‘Like’ a stock, and thereafter receive updates on that stock in your Facebook news feed. The app is called Wall Street. […]
Author: Derek Pilecki, Gator Capital Covestor models: Small Cap, Large Cap, Long-Only Energy Disclosure: Long FOSL in Small Cap When Fossil (Nasdaq: FOSL) reported earnings (.pdf) on May 10th, the company continued its history of outperforming market expectations. The company reported sales growth of 36% and operating income growth of […]
What are the key factors a profession money manager looks for when selecting individual stocks in a sector like Energy, or among the universe of small-caps? Join us this Wednesday, May 25, for an interactive webinar with Covestor model manager Derek Pilecki of Florida-based investment advisor Gator Capital. You’ll hear […]
Author: Mark Holder Covestor Model: Opportunistic Arbitrage Great post at the Business Insider regarding all the deflation going on. With everybody sweating the soaring prices for energy and food, nobody seems to notice the deflation in housing and transportation. Not to mention that labor costs have been kept relatively flat. […]
From this weekend’s Saturday Night Live: SNL – Dominique Strauss-Kahn by Palmking512 Source: Dailymotion, 5/22/11 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xiufnv_snl-dominique-strauss-kahn_fun
Back in March, Henry Blodget shared internal traffic data from Google Analytics indicating 7.8 million monthly uniques for his site for February, 2011. While Quantcast is apparently directly measuring BI traffic (it’s ‘Quantified’), that service indicates just 6 million visitors for March. So let’s assume the two metrics services use […]
Author: Andrew Schornack Model: Financial Services Disclosure: Long TWGP, PBCT The month of April posted mixed results in the portfolio. While the portfolio outperformed the newly added benchmark SPSY (S&P Financials Index) by 2.13%, it underperformed the S&P 500 Index by 0.82% according to Covestor’s calculations. The existing portfolio as […]