August Case-shiller Hpi

Hi everyone -- the Case-Shiller data for August was released today. I am very busy this week so I&039;m going to put up a few graphs with a minimum of commentary.Here is the nominal HPI decline since the November 2005 peak:read more[...]

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Call For Real Estate Consumer Bill Of Rights Expanding?

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Year End Blow Out Sale!

As indicated by Nate on one of our threads some builders are getting creative with their marketing now. Offering incentives, inducements and new "assured sales programs." All I can say is read the fine print on these, and while you’re at it have your own lawyer go over the contract as well. One prominent builder offers a quasi "guaranteed sale program." In this case people might think the sale of their home is guaranteed, but in reality, if your home isn’t sold by the time the new one is ready then they put your new one up for sale too...If the new on[...]

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Blind Eye Of The Law Just Got Glasses

Let me see if I get this.So a person who has a hard time seeing should be able to see the Target website regardless of the fact that they can’t see! Hold on and let me think about this one as I chug on my cold cup of child and adult proof coffee.[...]

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California Gold Rush: This Is Why Facebook Is Interesting . . .

A few weeks back I spent a Saturday afternoon in Palo Alto crammed into a small room with a couple of hundred people listening to the stories of some of the early Facebook app developers. Believe me, it wasn’t the way I wanted to spend my Saturday.But the enthusiasm was fun to witness and it did feel as if we were all (and we still all are) at the beginning of something big. It was fun to see kids straight out of school suddenly rock stars in the nascent Facebook community, learning how to be entrepreneurs.Whatever your personal and emotional reaction is to Facebook, (and [...]

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From Idea To Self Fullfilled Prophesy

Have you ever had a millionaire idea and sat on it? A year goes by and you are in a far off city, and there is someone profiting from your idea. I remember reading about this in Tony Robbins first...[...]

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Page Rank Is Dead

Page RankWell there has been a flurry of blog activity complaining of Google’s draconian "slap" of prominent sites such as the SFGate, CopyBlogger, Washington Post, Forbes & many many more. As Page Rank levels have dropped 1 or in some cases 2 levels.Real Estate Blogs[...]

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Breakouts In Metals/mining&Clean Energy ETFs

NOTE: Please click on the charts below to enlarge them if they do not appear clearly.Stocks concluded the week with a strong session of gains last Friday, though the intraday price action was a bit indecisive again. The major indices gapped higher on the open, drifted down to the flat line by mid-day, then rallied back to their highs in the afternoon. It was a pattern that repeated itself several times last week. The Nasdaq gained 1.9%, the S&P 500 1.4%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average 1.0%. The small-cap Russell 2000 and S&P Midcap 400 indices motored higher by 1.9[...]

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’it’s Just A Flesh Wound’

The extraordinary level of housing denial documented here in Marin has attracted the attention of at least one SoCal blogger.Again, why do I even bother? It’s fanaticism, plain and simple.Read More...

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The Fires, The Economy, And Housing

The fires that have swept the region, and that still burn in some places, have been incredibly dramatic in their impact on the day-to-day functioning of our city and have been absolutely devastating to those families who lost their homes. But when people have asked me in recent days how I thought the fires would impact home prices, my answer has been that it wouldn&039;t have much effect at all.It&039;s simply a matter of scale. San Diego is a huge city and -- without minimizing the catastrophic impact to those involved -- the number of homes destroyed represents an extremely small [...]

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The Right Lazy?

A reader left a comment professing a lack of comfort with country selection and wonders about the following lazy portfolio; 55% Vanguard FTSE All World Ex-US (VEU) 45% iShares Russell 3000 Index Fund (IWV)The chart compares both funds with the S&P 500 since VEU’s inception.In its shor[...]

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Scheduling Conflict

*********************************************I will be in Las Vegas attending the annual Schwab Impact conference from Monday - Wednesday of this week.My schedule is pretty jam packed, so I would anticipate my blogging activities to be light at best.The market finished on a high note Friday, even though volume didn’t rise from Thursday’s levels, so hopefully the first half of the week will be somewhat quiet as the market digests the gains.More[...]

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MLPs Up 4 In A Row As The Chart Repair Continues.

Friday’s solid up close puts us above all the moving averages and in position to finally clear the 310 level. We have a few things at work this week including the end of the year for mutual funds which have to close their books on 10/31. Also the fed meeting with a quarter of a point baked into the cake. And we will soon begin going ex-distribution en masse!Read More...

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Winter’s Coming

brrr the chill the last few days gives me that ominous feeling that the white stuff isn’t that far off. Maybe if I don’t mention the S word it won’t come, just like the real estate market if we don’t mention the D word prices won’t go down. Oops. With that chill comes the fall maintenance and winter preparation that most people have already taken care of. I’m just writing this while I’m waiting for a buyer to come in - maybe I’ll just go grab someone off the street and sit them down and talk to them like a buyer. Seriously though my client is looking for a really[...]

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On Fire

I had written about my friends Jill and Tim, whose home was featured on the TV show "The Riches". This just in, horrifying photos taken from their patio of the hills and homes around their home, on fire.Incredibly, their neighbor who is a firefighter, suggested that the best way to save their home would be to stay with it and try to fight it themselves with[...]

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Time To Head On Out Of Dodge?

I think I have read in five different places that Jimmy Rogers is moving all of his assets out of US dollars. He is said to favor Chinese yuan, Japanese yen and Swiss francs.No doubt you are also aware he favors a whole myriad of commodities too.The argument that says the US is doomed is very popular is some circles and alway[...]

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Bad News On Paycheck?

My paycheck is going to be even lower by $700. I will get $2,400 at the end of the month versus the $2,800 that I estimated and my regular $3,100. The lower paycheck is due to taking 4 days unpaid to attend my sisters wedding this summer. I took all of my vacation days to prepare for the bar exam and didnt have any left to travel to Cancun.This is exactly why I was hesitant about making any strong financial moves because crap always seems to happen. So I am not going to bring in enough money to pay the bills and will have to use the remaining $1,000 in my unemployment fund to sup[...]

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Ski posters - Alternative investing I can almost afford

Alternative investments are one of those things that sound great in theory but are rarely enjoyable in practice. But I've found some I can (almost) afford - vintage ski posters

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Coolness Is Optional, Authenticity Is Not

A lot of marketing folks spend a great deal of time worrying if they’ve got the right look. For many this means mastering the look that is considered acceptable in their industry (AKA - like everyone else.) For others, this might unfold as a quest to look cool, trendy or expensive.In the end, the right look is simply a matter of discovering the most authentic look, and for that matter, feel, words and experience, for you. Regardless of how it might be perceived by some. If authentic is conservative, embrace it, if authentic is wild and edgy, go for it, if authentic is cheesy, go fu[...]

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Expensive Electric Sports Car Coming In 2008

The hubby and I are tooling around the wilds of West Texas, so the auto shown below probably wouldn’t be our best vehicular choice. But c’mon! Doesn’t this Tesla Roadster look great? You can drool over more images here.Actually, now that I think about it, this car might be a good fit for long-dis[...]

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Newswatch 10.25.07: ATT Pays AAPL Over $800 Per iPhone

Verizon, Vonage settle for $120 million[News.com] Vonage on Thursday said it had resolved an ongoing patent dispute with Verizon Communications at a price tag of up to $120 million, ending what has been a mostly gloomy saga for the struggling Internet phone company.MSFT debuts Mobile server[InfoWeek] Taking direct aim at BlackBerry’s commanding lead in the enterprise smartphone business, Microsoft announce[...]

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Protalex Plummets On Strange Stock Offering

by H.S. Ayoub, DMDBioHealth InvestorWhat must be the strangest stock offering of all time, at least in my trading experience as limited as it is, Protalex Biotherapeutics (PLX) sold 10 million additional shares on the market today at $5 per share. Why strange? Because the stock closed at $36 a share on Wednesday! Today, the stock’s wild trading session ended at a price of $6.31Why would the company sell their stock at a price so [...]

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The Good News Buried On The Back Page

Reader Liv Douglas sagely notes,One of the BIG stories of yesterday was the completion of the TXU LBO deal. I think the TXU deal was the biggest LBO deal EVER. While the media moaned over Merrill Lynch’s $8.5 billion writeoff, the TXU deal got done. In today’s Wall Street Journal (page C8) -- in the Credit Markets column -- the following was written:Big Sale of TXU Debt Is Success Despite RisksEnergy Future Holdings, formerly known as TXU Corp., made [...]

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Friday Will Be Looking Forward To Next Week

Thursday left us a red day across the broader markets on mixed volume. The NYSE was higher volume while the Nasdaq was on lighter volume. The Nasdaq was taking a rest to see where the stocks after the bell would fall for earnings, which was also mixed. Microsoft came in nicely and rallied after the bell, while BIDU and KLAC both fell significantly. Futures are pretty quiet as I type commentary, but they are slightly green. Gold came in strong closing up $5.40 at $771 an ounce and crude rallied to all time new highs up $2.34 to close at $90.34 a barrel. [...]

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Microsoft Carries The Day

The market is getting a big boost at the open from strong earnings out of Microsoft (MSFT). The tech behemoth blew out earnings and raised guidance for next quarter as well. I was suprised at how strong their numbers were, but I don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth.Also, Countrywide (CFC) reported a larger than expected loss this morning, but it raised guidance for next quarter and said it expects to return to profitability. The financial sector breathed a huge sigh of relief on this news, and it helped lift the overall market.

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Chicken Or Rooster? Engaging In Online Debates . . .

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve written a few posts that were intended to remind the PR industry that significant changes are underway in their sector, a point of view that wasn’t warmly received.My recent post "Wiley E Coyote: Traditional PR is running on thin air" was part of a theme I’ve been writing about for a couple of years. It was intended to remind my PR contacts that we have disruptive technologies in our m[...]

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"Bear Flag" Chart Pattern On The Dow Industrials

NOTE: Please click on the charts below to enlarge them if they do not appear clearly.Another tug-of-war between the bulls and bears left the major indices flat to modestly lower yesterday. Stocks sold off in the first thirty minutes, reversed to new intraday highs later in the morning, fell to fresh intraday lows at mid-day, then moved back up in the final ninety minutes of trading. Percentage changes in the Nasdaq Composite and Dow Jones Industrial Average were identical with the previous day, respectively at 0.9% lower and unchanged. The S&P 500 ticked just 0.1% l[...]

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Anything You Will Is True

I don’t intend a live blog of Garrett’s book Harangue (1926)--about half finished--but I did want to share these observations on the socialist movement of the 1920s, in the words of one of the characters who treats the whole movement with some distance. Elsewhere, Garrett treats the problem of how and why the wealthy "buy" socialist ideology as a means of distinguishing themselves from the bourgeoisie. Here we have the anatomy of the movement as this one character understands it: Youth in its radical, self-conscious phase, and not very vital, else it would not ha[...]

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Convos: Online Groups Simply Managed - Made In Nyc

Thursday afternoon I met with Matthew Trush and JP Checa, co-founders of Convos, a New York city based startup offering a "Yahoo Groups on steroids" web based application.Convos is an interesting application, with a clean user interface and the ability to add features through modules. It is built on Flash using Flex. It recently opened up its beta to the public prior to a commercial launch with a tiered pricing structure.I asked them if they had a Facebook app yet, because I could see thi[...]

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Time For A "real Estate Unconference"? Let’s Begin Planning

Nearly a year and a half after participating in my first "unConference," I remain interested in (1) meeting monthly with other r[...]

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Better Start Stockpiling The Kool Aid

Let’s see. Home owners in Marin are getting their property re-assessed at a record rate so as to lower their property taxes (when was the last time you could do that?). Foreclosures and defaults in Marin are "spiking" even [...]

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Weekly Update On The Edmonton Real Estate Market

Well, we’ve been trying to stay away from being all stats, all the time. There are a number of reasons for this but it basically comes down to time, and accuracy. We don’t have the time to constantly update everyone on the market stats, and if you look at things too granularly you can see trends where they don’t exist. There has been an outcry from our readers for more stats, so, starting today we’ll try to do an update every week on the stats, depending on our schedule. The following stats are for the city of Edmonton only - simply adding up these stats will not give you the sam[...]

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A wolf in sheeps clothing?

Clued-up consumers have one more weapon in their armoury when theyre looking for insurance. But should they trust it?

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A Giant Awakens!!

Long left for dead, Microsoft (MSFT) has shown a huge gain in the after hours trading today as it woke from a long coma. The blue line on the monthly chart below shows where the stock closed in after hours trading, that is a high not seen since 2001!Read More...

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Where Can I Find An Update Of The Performance Tables Presented In "the Best Retirement Strategy I Know Using Active Risk Management?"

I just reread your informative March 2002 article "The best retirement strategy I know using active risk management." My question is, has this information (i.e. the comparative performance tables) been updated and if so, where can it be accessed?The performance tables presented in the March 2002 article "The best retirement strategy I know using active risk management" have been updated through 2005. You can find them in the presentat[...]

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Inside Day On The U.S. Dollar

The dollar’s wide ranging day on October 22nd has created support at 77.09 and resistance at 78.20. The past two days have been trading within the range creating an inside day. This also is setting up as the October 31st FOMC meeting is looming. The Fed Fund futures reflect an 85-plus percent likelihood of a rate cut but this is far from a guarantee. There is ofcourse the chance that the Fed could delay any moves until the December meeting. Keep in mind that a rate cut would weaken an already weak dollar. However a potential rate cut has already been discou[...]

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Rate Cut Rumors Fuel Afternoon Snapback

Rate Cut Rumors Fuel Afternoon SnapbackBy Harry Boxer, The Technical Trader (www.thetechtrader.com) It was an extremely volatile day, down in the morning, bounced around mid-day, and then rallied sharply in the afternoon.The day started out with a gap lower. They had an immediate snapbackrally that failed, and then they rolled over sharply, testing Monday’slate afternoon lows on the Nasdaq 100 and the session lows on theS&P 500. A sharp bounce ensued, a rollover occurred in earlyafternoon that retested the lows and created a double bottom.[...]

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Trade Update - Akamai Tech (akam)

My trade of the day is Akamai Tech (AKAM). The company reported solid earnings last night, and the stock gapped higher this morning, and remains up on very solid volume.If you look at the chart above, you can see a large gap lo[...]

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Bulls Brought Out The Erasers

Wednesday finished the day red, but a great recovery off extreme losses. Volume picked up steam on the way down and on the way back down leaving us with an above average volume day across the broader markets. The Dow finished almost unchanged after being down 180 points, the other markets very weak and reversed as well. The Bulls brought out the eraser and took charge the last two hours of the day. Gold closed up $2.40 at $765.50 an ounce and oil closed up $1.83 at $87.10 a barrel. Into Thursday we have a market pretty much unchanged that is full[...]

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Is Redfin Downsizing?

No, I guess not. But amusing repartee ensues.[...]

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A Slight Difference Of Opinion

In a few years, we will all know who was right - the IEA, CERA, and other optimists or the peak oil crowd. One look at this chart from the recently released study(.pdf) by Energy Watch Group, and it is clear there couldn’t be a bigger difference of opinion.The "WEO[...]

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Earnings Put The Heat On After Hours

Tuesday left a green day across the broader markets on higher volume leaving an accumulation day. The day rallied off big cap tech stocks once again, despite a sinking semiconductor sector, which did close red on the day. Crude closed down 75cents at $85.27 a barrel and gold closed up $31.0 to close at $763.10 an ounce. Earnings after the bell were less than impressive, leaving Amazon to dump $11.00. Several other big caps followed and saw some pullback after the bell. BRCM also left a mark down $5.00 after their earnings release. The marke[...]

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Fire Relief Resources

Relief Efforts to help the victims: Beach Cities Health District is collaborating with Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach to collect clothing and household items on behalf of Goodwill Industries. Checks made out to the American Red Cross Disaster...[...]

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Bulls Bite Back On Apple Earnings

Bulls Bite Back on Apple EarningsBy Harry Boxer, The Technical Trader (www.thetechtrader.com) It was a very strong session with a big gap up in the morning, apullback mid-morning that held support, and then a steady move higherthat accelerated into the afternoon, particularly on the Nasdaq 100,that took it to new 7-year highs. The S&P 500 was a lot lessbuoyant, although late in the day they did come on and close near thesession highs.Net on the day the Nasdaq 100 broke through 2200, closing at2205, up 47.73.The Dow was up 109 1/4 and the[...]

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Real Estate Twit

Just when I was about to look for ways to reduce my categories I go and add a new one about Social Media and Real Estate called Socially real estate. What motivated me was that I saw that the LA...[...]

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Hump Day Blues

I live just outside of Beverly Hills, so the fires are not down in my neck of the woods. While I know people who have been evacuated, for the most part I get my updates from TV. But this morning when I went out to my car, it was covered in ashes. Very sad. My thoughts and prayers go out to those who have experienced losses.Speaking of losses, this morning’s tape is a sea of red in the early going. This is somewhat surprising given that the Nasdaq 100 made a new high yesterday on strong volume. But sometimes new highs bring out a violent and opposit[...]

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Reclaiming PPI

We love helping people at This is Money. So I was chuffed today to receive an email from a lovely lady in London who we have helped make £3,400 richer

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What Would You Do? Dual Agency Dilema

A buyer contacts us about a property that we have listed for sale. Its pretty clear that the buyer loves the property and wants to make the seller an offer. The seller is motivated to sell but not desperate. Its pretty obvious to us that the buyers understanding of real estate is greater than the seller. The buyer makes an offer with some terms and conditions that are defintely disadvantagous to the seller. If you were us (licensed REALTOR and all), what would you do?Raise your concerns about the offer to the seller and advise them on potential chan[...]

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Newswatch 10.23.07: Sixth Of All Iphones Used For Unlocking

250,000 iPhones unlocked or bricked[Mercury News] About 250,000 of the nearly 1.4 million iPhones that Apple has sold thus far have gone to customers that don’t have any intention of signing up for AT&T’s service, Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook said Monday on a conference call with analysts and investors. That’s a problem not only for AT&T, which doesn’t get any monthly service fees from those customers, but for Apple, with which AT&T shares a portion of iPhone service revenue.Read More...

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Southern California Burning

Please keep your hearts and prayers open to all the victims. They are weathering this thing out bravely.[...]

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Fixed-income ETFs Ready For Another Leg Higher

NOTE: Please click on the charts below to enlarge them if they do not appear clearly.Driven by a strong earnings report from Apple Computer, stocks gapped firmly higher on yesterday’s open, dipped to the flat line just before mid-day, then rallied back to the highs late in the afternoon. Once again, wide divergence between the Nasdaq and the other main stock market indexes was prevalent. The Nasdaq Composite cruised to a 1.7% gain, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 Index leapt 2.2% higher. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 0.9% and 0.8% respectively[...]

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Apple Reports Blowout Quarter, Helps Lift Nasdaq

The market is strong in early trading, led by the Nasdaq, which is more than +1.0% higher. The big catalyst was Apple’s earnings report last night, in which the company trounced estimates and raised guidance for next quarter. Mac sales were surprisingly strong, and though they get the least amount of attention, AAPL is really a Mac story.There were several other strong earnings reports, including AXP, DD, LMT, BNI, and UPS. The only real stinker was Texas Instruments (TXN). Actually, their quar[...]

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Real Estate Marketing And Keyword Meta Tags

I cannot tell you how many times a week that I get a phone call from a client or a potential real estate client whom asks about keyword metatags.Now, I must say in case you do not know, the meta keyword died a decade ago. Well at least it seems like it was that long. It was a wonderful way to stuff keywords into your page. It died about the same time as the alt tag died as a useful way to get the engine to recognize you as an authority for a phrase.[...]

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Countrywide To Refinance Mortgages

Countrywide to Refinance Up to $16 Billion of Loans The so called bubble is wrought with blame. From Greenspan to Realtors, certainly everyone can pick up a piece of the blame.[...]

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Our man in Washington: The city of two halves

Dan Atkinson travelled to Washington DC for the International Monetary Fund meeting. Steeped in political intrigue and history it remains a city of two halves - and comes across a bit like somewhere more familiar

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Sick

A reader sent me this:"Roger guesses the house is worth 10 percent less than it cost to build--and he’s worried its fall has just begun. "I have personal angst," Elliott says. "Yes, I built this fantastic house. My wife loves it. Everybody in the neighborhood thinks it’s great." But it was a house built for appreciation. Now that prices are falling, he wishes he’d built something far more modest."story: http://www.newswee[...]

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Why Not Buy An OEF?

A question came in a few days ago from a reader who said he was not comfortable knowing which foreign countries to own or how to access any countries he might think he wants to own. He reasonably asked why not just buy a couple of actively managed OEFs and let experts do the work for you.It should be obvious that any choice you make [...]

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A Technimental Update

After five consecutive up weeks in the market, it shouldn’t have been all that surprising that we had a down week last week. Although the S&P 500 did fall more than I would have guessed. But the Nasdaq outperformed on a relative ba[...]

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Bulls Expire On Options Expiration Friday

Bulls Expire on Options Expiration FridayBy Harry Boxer, The Technical Trader (www.thetechtrader.com) The bulls had their heads handed to them on Friday, as the indices gotcrushed in one of the biggest losses in years. The Dow Jones, inparticular, got hammered for 367 points, the S&P 500 nearly 40, theNasdaq 100 56 1/2 and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOXX) downa whopping 21.32, or more than 4 percent.The day started out with a sharply lower opening. They wentdown sharply for most of the morning until around mid-morning when the[...]

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It May Not Be As Bad As It Looks

The forex is buzzing with comments about the change in the risk environment. The JPY is strengthening against just about everything, stocks are down again following Friday’s rout and the USD retraced last weeks losses against the EUR and GBP. However, if the risk environment was really changing, I would expect bond prices to be rising and yields to be falling. So far, this session, the bond yields would dispute this situation. The 10-year yield is rising, which means bonds are falling. This is not only contrary to the assumed risk bias out there but is against the movement in [...]

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The Economist Points A Finger At Central Bankers

What a delightful current issue of The Economist - a special pull-out section with the title "Only Human - A special report on central banks and the world economy" along with a number of other articles on the faults and foibles of central bankers.It looks like the Northern Rock/Mervyn King debacle has sent them over the edge.While only having gotten through about 10 percent of the total central banking news and opinion in this week’s magazine, the compulsion to share a few excerpts of the portion reviewed so far is just, well, overwhelming...In the cover-sto[...]

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Sector Performances

The chart below shows the major sectors performances in the last ten trading days compared to the S&P500.Chart courtesy of Stockchart.comSwing Trading, Technical Analysis, Daily Stock Market Commentary.[...]

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Royalty Raucous

On Wednesday morning while heading to do a property evaluation I was listening to Dave Rutherford on 630CHED. I listened to him rip into some guy for making his mind up about the Royalty review when the caller clearly hadn’t. It was Dave’s position that the proposed increases were ’bad for Alberta’ and ’the royalty review report was flawed’. Listening to his rant I couldn’t help but wonder where does someone get good honest information about this topic.Read More...

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Usd Outlook: Dow Plunges 366 Points

A parade of worse-than-expected earnings numbers from major banks and manufacturers sent Wall Street investors running away from stocks and toward the safety of U.S. government securities. When all was said and done, the Dow had plunged 366 points by the closing bell. Think of the Dow falling as a big rock that is thrown into the middle of a pond. We’ve seen the first splash. Now we have to prepare for the ripples that are going to flow through the international marketplace. What will a falling U.S. stock market, poor corporate performance and falling bond yields do [...]

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Seeking Alpha

Kudos to www.seekingalpha.com. Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, has named Seeking Alpha the most informative investment web site in its 2007 Best List. Kiplinger said the following about Seeking Alpha"The site’s large roster of contributors includes traders, bloggers and money managers. Nifty extras: a comprehensive section on exchange-traded funds and Q&As with CEOs."[...]

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Fire Info

Hi everyone -- if anyone is looking for info on the fires, there are a couple active forum threads on the topic: http://piggington.com/hope_you_are_all_safe http://piggington.com/was_up_in_ramona Read More...

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Yikes!

Friday left the market with a seriously red day and didnt let the bulls close the week green. Heavy volume is normal for options expiration day, but Friday left huge volume which accelerated with each support break on the way down. Very expanded ranges will leave us a little weary into Monday. CAT, MMM, HON all set a negative tone on Friday along with some comments about recession times ahead and then of course weve gone WAY up and in need of a pullback helped things along on Friday. Pakistan also ignited some fear, which I mentioned on Thursday to be wat[...]

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Canslim.net Morning Comment And Links (for Traders)

MORNING MARKET COMMENTARYfor Monday, October 22, 2007Weak Action Marks 20-Year Anniversary of ’87 Crash - Kenneth J. Gruneisen, CANSLIM Certified, Registered Principal, Source Capital Group, Inc. (Members NASD, SIPC)The market took a beating and many of the major indices sliced below important moving averages. The latest round of earnings sparked speculation that third quarter results will be the worst in five years. Volume jumped on both major exchanges, making Friday the 4th distribution day for the Nasdaq Comp[...]

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Here’s To Your Depreciating Pied-?-terre

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A Simple Explanation Of The Edmonton Real Estate Market

*Not to scale...lol[...]

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Ray Of Light: The Live Nation / Madonna Deal

It was officially announced earlier this week that Madonna was leaving Warner MusicGroup in favor of Live Nation in a long-rumored landmark deal said tobe worth $120 M. Madonna gets a huge chunk of change and equityin Live Nation’s in exchange for their participation in a number ofrevenue str[...]

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Hello, Seafaring Bostonians

Is this just a glitch? Or, is there an oil rig off the coast of South Boston? A submarine?More posts about: boston lifeboston life[...]

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Expect Another Preventative Rate Cut

A: Stocks are just off record highs, fed funds target rate is at non-restrictive 4.75%, the US dollar is at record lowers and sinking further, oil is bubbling at record highs, and commodities are at very high levels; hardly an environment that needs rate cuts. But this credit situation is much worse than many people think and the I think the fed is cutting rates now so that when they ’kick in’ in the future it will be just when we need them to! It’s a very confusing time right now, leaving me to focus on the biggest threat to everything: the credit markets. Th[...]

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Runaway Ishares China (fxi) Showing Signs Of Exhaustion

NOTE: Please click on the charts below to enlarge them if they do not appear clearly.The major indices lethargically drifted in a narrow, sideways range yesterday before finishing near the flat line. The S&P 500 slipped 0.1%, the Nasdaq Composite ticked 0.2% higher, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was unchanged. The small-cap Russell 2000 was also flat. The S&P Midcap 400 bounced 0.2%. Each of the main stock market indexes had an "inside day," meaning their intraday trading ranges were completely contained within the previous day’s hig[...]

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What Our Genealogy Customers Want

We use Qualtrix survey software (which we really like) and have a panel of customers who have agreed to answer survey questions every month. We appreciate the customers who are willing to take time to give us their opinions. We pay a great deal of attention to the feedback. We adjust our work and investment priorities based on what our customers tell us.Our last survey had 15 questions. We received answers from 1,041 customers. Here are some interesting facts:Half of our customers like to our full newsletter articles in the email[...]

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Where, Oh Where Is The Outrage?

Another example of economic short-term memory.Crude prices are continuing upward, as today Nymex Crude closed just shy of $90 per barrel. But in contrast to previous spikes, we’re not hearing the political sounding board in Washington cry for windfall profits taxes, and the talking heads are not aghast with news of gasoline shortages...Oil is up 8% just in the few[...]

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Happy Anniversary!

Reader Liv Douglas reminds me that this is the 20th anniversary of the stock market crash of October 19, 1987. Thanks, Liv -- I’ll be writing my SmartMoney.com column about this. In the meantime, here are Liv’s thoughts:Today marks the 20th anniversary of the infamous stock market crash of 1987. Had you paid attention to Big Media at the time, you’d have sold your stocks, gone into cash and hunkered down for the [inevitable] recession or, perhaps, depression. Big Media was, once again, woefully wrong. If you bought the Dow at 1,738 at the end of October 19, [...]

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Corporate Social Responsibility Is A Competitive Advantage

Today the competition for top people is intense. Money is a motivator but it is a common commodity. What else can you offer?A social mission is becoming an essential component for any business. We spend more time at work, we are often never not at work. We get pizza when we work late but how do companies satisfy their people’s hunger to do good things in the world? With all things equal, people will choose to work for companies that have a social mission as part of their mission statement. Google, Salesforce and others, are early examples of this trend.Friday I a[...]

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Word For The Day: Fungible

Fungible means interchangeable. The word comes into play when (inter alia) earmarked funds end up in a general account. These funds are then free to be used for purposes other than intended. Example: You would like to go on a vacation but you have unpaid car repair bills. A wealthy uncle hears that you are having financial trouble and sends money to help. However, he would never agree to pay for your vacation - hes nice, but not that nice. Once your uncles money is deposited into your checking account, you are free to spend it as you please. You then get to pay off your[...]

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The Truth About The Crash Of 1987

Here’s the draft of my SmartMoney.com column, that will appear later today. Now it can be told! Twenty years after the great stock market crash of October 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by more than 22% in a single day, the truth about why it happened can now be revealed. And believe me, I know what really happened. Because I caused the crash myself. Yep, it was me. With a little help from my some bad judgment, some colossal mistakes, and some outright criminality.Back then I ran portfolio management and trading for Wells Fargo Investment Advisors[...]

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Dataquick&#8217;s September, 2007 Results

By now those of you who care already know just how bad the sales results were for Marin for September, 2007 according to DataQuick. If not, you can see their chart here.And in case you don’t appreciate just how anemic sales were this past September, I refer you to the following chart of DataQuick sales data for all Septembers in Marin since the go-go, heady days of 1995:Read More...

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September Employment

San Diego employment growth bounced back last month, according to California&039;s Employment Development Department. As usual, however, the housing boom beneficiary sectors put a damper on things. Employment in the construction and financial sectors were down again down from last year, as the accompanying charts show. But the previously beaten-down retail sales industry actually went positive for the first time in a while, growing by 100 jobs since September 2006 (hey, it&039;s somethi[...]

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In Today&#8217;s World: Make Sure Your Venture Has An Api And A Facebook App

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Stock Of The Day: Google (goog)

My Stock of the Day is Google (GOOG).Given how far the stock had rallied from its August lows, as well as the high $600 price tag, I think most investors were skeptical that it could continue higher after reporting earnings. Af[...]

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Party Like Its 2004

According to a study by Merrill Lynch investors are the optimistic on emerging markets they have been since 2004.To quote the Bloomberg article where I found this the bullishness is based "on the view stocks from Chile to Vie[...]

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Volatility Returns

Great Morning! With the FOMC meeting just nine sessions away and counting, markets have done their best guesswork at what the fed has ahead in store for all. Price patterns intraday had followed a similar path: early selloff or sideways chop, ended with a short squeeze higher into the closing bell. Shorts are clearly scared to hold over the closing bell, for obvious reasons. The "Bernanke slam" orchestrated premarket for option-expiry Friday in August has since done it’s design well. Read More...

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Do You Think Etfs Are As Good As No-load Mutual Funds?

I recently saw an article in the AAII journal about ETFs. Their conclusion was, "Setting aside the transaction cost difference for small investments, and considering only broad-based index funds, the differences are likely to be insignificant." Do you have a difference of opinion?I need more data and more time. I have concluded there will likely be a small advantage to mutual funds in the less liquid asset classes. That is evident from the returns of our mutual fund and ETF portfolios tracked by The Hulbert Financial Digest.For the first 6 months of this year, [...]

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Ken Livingstone - how to not ask what people want

The public consultation on raising the congestion charge to £25 ends tomorrow. If you do find it don't expect to be able to say 'yes or no' - this is a consultation that makes tinpot dictatorships look democratic

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Thoughts On Crude Oil&#8217;s Record High Above $88 Per Barrel

I have recently suggested investors consider taking some profits in the crude oil market, but prices in the low 80’s price range has not stopped the commodity from continuing its ascent. Crude oil is hitting new historic highs today above $88 per barrel. The contrarian in me prefers to buy weakness and sell strength, so even though the current rise could continue, I am not going to jump on the momentum train and suggest people pile into crude in the short term. Longer term, though, I think it is worth taking a look at what will ultimately dictate where oil prices go.To understand o[...]

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Solid Hammering Lower And Intraday Reversal

Dear Trading Friends. On our last blog report I had discussed the possibility of the market staging a pullback off the current levels it was at during that post. The S&P500 E-Mini was trading in the 1555-60 zone at that time. Well, the good ol Fed notes came out and when they want to get the market rallying ...they know what to say. Or at least they know how to get traders to construe things a certain way. The market took off higher towards the 1572 area the afternoon after the notes were released. I thought to my self..."Hey Mohan, they are rallyi[...]

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Utah Events: Blogging For Business; Facebook Strategies

So my friend Robert Merrill (Utahtechjobs.com) reminded me to plug the upcoming Blogging for Business conference in Salt Lake City, scheduled for Monday, October 22nd.I’m coming up on 4 years as a blogger, and I can attest that blogging has opened up a world of opportunities for me. I think every CEO should blog and businesses should use blogs to communicate with all stakeholders. Frankly, it amazes me that so many businesses are willing to go for years with so many believers/practitioners extolling [...]

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Who Could Have Seen It Coming?

Over at SLOP, Scott Lewis wonders what I think of developer Sherm Harmer&039;s assertion that nobody anticipated the troubles in the subprime mortgage market. Scott quotes Harmer as saying, "We did not anticipate the subprime financing issues," and then, referring to those issues, "It was not on anybody&039;s radar screen. It surprised the best banks, the best investors. No economist p[...]

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Financials Continue To Pressure The Market

The market is trading lower in early trading, after some very weak results were reported in the financial sector.Bank of America (BAC) said profits plunged -32%, while ETrade (ETFC) and Wamu (WM) both reported weak results as well. All three of those stocks are trading lower, and weighing on the financial sector overall.Considering financials are the biggest component of the S&P 500, this is acting as a drag on the overall market as well. It also doesn’t help that oil is up again, trading near[...]

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Good fare for the common man

To listen to some people in the media you'd be forgiven for thinking that Britain - and in particular London - was now the best place in the world to eat. Complete and utter rubbish

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Go Tribe!!

I want to wish good luck to my Indians tonight. Let’s close this one out and get ready for Colorado-- Probably wishful thining. The Red Sox aren’t going to go down without a fight. But CC is due for a big game tonight. I would be betting the "under" [...]

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Fixed-Income (bond) ETFs Breaking Out

NOTE: Please click on the charts below to enlarge them if they do not appear clearly.Yesterday was a tale of two markets, as enthusiasm in the tech arena powered the Nasdaq higher, but the S&P and Dow were little changed. Further, an intraday tug-of-war between the bulls and bears made for a whippy and spastic session as well. Stocks gapped sharply higher on the open, drifted slightly lower throughout the morning, then fell apart at mid-day. Then, just as the major indices plunged 1.5% from their intraday highs and began to look pretty ugly, buyers arrive[...]

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Big News From My Family (dot Com)

The Generations Network, formerly MyFamily.com, announced today a $300 million acquisition by Spectrum Equity, a $4 billion private equity fund with offices in Menlo Park and Boston. It is expected that the current management team will continue to lead the company, which is headquartered in Provo, Utah.The company has an interesting history. Wikipedia’s article on The Generations Network gets most of the facts right. Ancestry, a print publishing company, [...]

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The Great Equalizer

Compare Title Insurance Rates The CLTA the California Land Title Association has finally launched the obvious. A title insurance comparison tool. Here it is. This is not likely to make our Title Agents happy. Especially if the end user, the...[...]

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Mortgage Rate Alert

Alberta boom will continue to bloom and the bust is nowhere in sight, according to a new report by the TD Bank on the provinces economic future. As a result of the boom, three of Canadas major banks are raising residential mortgage rates. The Bank of Montreal (BMO) and the Royal Bank (RY) said last week that their posted rates will raise as much as a quarter point beginning on Thursday. TD Banks (TD) rate changes went into effect October 10th, 2007.BMOs five year rate will increase 0.25 percentage points to 7.44 per cent, Royal Banks five year closed term will rise 0.21 poin[...]

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Credit card crunch the Spitting Image of 1990s

It's dark, Satanic times as more than 1m people are now paying their mortgages with their credit cards - but we have been here before

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Strong Earnings Reports Lift The Market

The market is getting a nice boost in early trading after several companies reported stronger than expected earnings last night and this morning.Big companies like Intel (INTC), Yahoo (YHOO), Coca-Cola (KO), Abbot Labs (ABT), CSX, UTX, etc. all beat consensus expectations for earnings. This has given the market a boost, and helped the Nasdaq pop more than +1.0% so far.Earnings estimates have been continually trimmed in recent weeks, such that expectations were running very low as companies began to report. Hopefully, today’s action is a foreshadowing [...]

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Two Distribution Days

Tuesday another red ending making day two for a distribution day across the broader markets. The day was an NR4 (narrowest range of the last 4 days), leaving us very nervous and wound for earnings after the bell. So even though there was selling on heavy volume we didnt act like a run- away train. Intel and Yahoo brought good news and traded up after the bell, but IBM traded down after the bell on earnings. We talked about this in the chatroom, so not a real surprise to us. The market liked the news and is trading higher in the after- hours futures session[...]

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Just In Case...

...The Interweb isn’t quite up to speed at the ol’ Nusbaum hut I am posting this from the Honolulu airport.The market had another bad day but I see that INTC and YHOO are up big after hours on earnings but IBM is down a little (thanks for the reminder Leisa!). I did not read the reports but the trading tells me a lot given that I don’t own any of the three.Every sector ETF to the lower right on this page was down. In the portfolio it looks like utilities, Norway and one stock I have from Spain for a lot of clients were the only things that did well, oh and the double sh[...]

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Be Aware Of ETF Weightings During Earnings Season

NOTE: Please click on the charts below to enlarge them if they do not appear clearly.The major indices closed lower for the second straight session yesterday, but the intraday action was not as negative. The broad market gapped down on the open, initially moved a bit lower, then stabilized and drifted sideways throughout the rest of the day. This compares more favorably to Monday’s losses, which resulted from steady intraday downtrends in all of the main stock market indexes. The S&P 500 fell 0.7%, the Nasdaq Composite 0.6%, and the Dow Jones Industrial A[...]

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But, But...

This quote from a recent SF Chronicle article is just too good to pass up:But even in expensive areas like Marin County the crisis is beginning to be felt. One of the Bay Area’s highest-priced ZIP co[...]

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Newswatch 10.16.07: Youtube Unveils Copy Protection

Leopard goes on sale Oct. 26[AP] One of the new features is "Boot Camp," which lets users install Microsoft Corp.’s Windows on Intel-based Macs, though both operating systems can’t run at the same time. The feature, in a test version released last year, already has helped attract new customers to the Macintosh platform.Greenpeace says iPhone a toxic hazard[MacWorld] Like all Apple products w[...]

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Trade Update - New Oriental Education (edu)

New Oriental Educations (EDU) is up again today, after spiking higher yesterday on a surge in volume.I wrote about the stock a couple of weeks ago when I was highlighting a group of Chinese ADRs that were all breaking out. I even[...]

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The Great Realtor Giveaway

Your Competition is GlobalYour competition can help you sell your propertiesContent is King and your industry leaders have given much of your "exclusive" content away.You need to develop content above and beyond just the IDX feeds. Consider local blogs, video, podcasts to start. Lets us not forget email and offline marketing. And you gotta keep it fresh and enlightening.[...]

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I&#8217;m Shorting The Nasdaq 100 - Here&#8217;s Why

By: John Manley DMSEven the tabloid entertainment reporters on CNBC say that, "Bulls make money - Bears make money - and Pigs get slaughtered!".... well - the pig of the month is the Nasdaq 100. It’s, "buy first - and ask questions later" - or don’t ask questions at all in this case! The trifecta of Apple, Google, and Research in Motion can do no wrong..... ahhh - great memories of 1999.Like all drunkin’ bashes - they ultimately come to an end.. and with this latest frat party - the cops are knockin’ at the door! The party goers might crack a few more beers in the short[...]

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Bono In Boston To Challenge Real Estate Industry To Join (product)red?

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Strategy And Tactics

I just read this quote and it got me motivated. I hope it motivates you too. "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." Sun Tzu[...]

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Investor Sentiment Check Reveals Too Much Complacency

In my opening post, I alluded to the fact that investor sentiment seems to have become a bit complacent. Given how much the markets have rallied, this isn’t surprising. Investors always become complacent toward the later stages of a given move.But the indicators I track are flashing a caution signal right now, and this is why I have raised cash and moved to a more defensive position.This morning, the volatility indexes (VIX/VXN) are spiking +13% higher, but the put/call ratios are still too low. This is not a good signal, and confirms what the moving[...]

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Earnings And Distribution Announcements Coming!

Over the next 2 weeks or so we will be getting our stream of earnings and payout boosts.We continue on our winning streak which is at 7. We are also have broken out on the daily chart out of that trading range so i guess the next logical place to head to will be the old high at 342.I guess beca[...]

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A Few Thoughts

World Vital Records is running more smoothly, and is closer to achieving our near-term financial goals, with sales 136% higher in September than in our best previous month.As we get through some of the early start up pains, and as our organization and systems mature a little more, I should be able to budget some time each day to blogging. I have missed it terribly. I love the feedback from readers. I love being part of the conversation. I love that to intelligently blog I need to read a lot first to see what is going on and what people [...]

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Support Levels For The Nasdaq, S&P, And Dow

NOTE: Please click on the charts below to enlarge them if they do not appear clearly.As anticipated, support of their 10-day moving averages enabled the major indices to bounce last Friday, recovering most of the previous day’s losses. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.2%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average 0.6%, and the S&P 500 0.5%. The small-cap Russell 2000 gained 0.7%, but the S&P Midcap 400 showed relative weakness by only reversing 0.2% of the previous day’s 0.7% loss. Making mild advances last week, the main stock market indexes finished near the m[...]

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Sizing Up The Next Crash

BusinessWeek recently featured comments made in an interview by Laszlo Birinyi as well as the most recent of Birinyi Associates’ Topical Studies: the next CRASH. The Birinyi Topical Studies are made available to subscribers of the Mi[...]

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Caution Volatility Ahead!

Friday closed the week green across the broader markets on light volume. Leaving a very narrow range day and pretty lackluster action coming off Thursdays big day. However, the Friday rebound left us about 50% recovered and neutral. Not a day bad given the over reaction of the fall from Thursday. Now we are about where we should be to start Monday with less drama behind the move. Nasdaq, S&P 500, Russell 2000 and the Dow all closed with inside narrow range bars on Friday. Also CCI divergence came in, but the RSI confirmed the day, leavi[...]

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Blame Without Blame

In a novel approach to the ongoing blame game, in which financial writers, economists, and politicians attempt to assign blame for the current housing and credit market mess, Wolfgang Munchau of the Financial Times takes the unusual approach of blaming central bankers but specifically absolving former Fed chief Alan Greenspan.Is that a reasonable thing to do?If, as he says, central bankers got us into this mess (see below) and "this mess" appears to have originated in the U.S. where it now appears to the[...]

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This Real Estate Market&#8217;s Silver Lining Right Around The Corner

I admit its getting better Its a little better all the time yes I admit its getting better The Beatles A Freddie Mac economist, Fred Nothaft told a crowd of Realtors in Anaheim that the end of the real estate...[...]

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Edmonton Neighbourhoods: High Park

High Park is a smaller neighbourhood laid out in a grid pattern and the lots are of a generous size. Development in the area occurred in the 1950s and 1960s. High Park is dominated by smaller, single-family bungalows, mostly with detached garages that are accessed via back lanes. Area residents have good access to Westmount Mall and Mayfield Common and to the northwest industrial district.Read More...

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Nasty Reversal In Techland

The tech market has a nasty reversal today. The chart above of the Nasdaq shows what is called a negative reversal. The market was higher early, and then reversed negative into the close.What is more, volume really picked up tod[...]

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September Foreclosures

The rate of NODs and NOTs declined in September from a month prior, but both numbers remain well above their levels of a year ago and for that matter anything we saw during the 1990s.read more[...]

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Kicking Back

Its tough to see but Tennessee Tuxedo and Chumley appear to be kicking back in their trading room after a nice trade.This quick post is about emotion and/or ego.On Monday I bought a stock across the board, as long term idea, that has moved up a lot. The particulars don’t matter. I am quite certain the story has not changed in the last [...]

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Foreclosure Niche

Despite the terrific foreclosure figures last month that showed an 8% decline, it still is a great niche to get yourself involved with. NOD’s , Shortsales, and Repos offer tremendous listings and sales possibilities. I am curious. Can you let...[...]

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Big Bounce For The Nasdaq

After yesterday’s heavy selling, I think most thought the market would be weak again at the open. Asian markets were lower across the board overnight, as profit taking there set in following our selloff.But the core PPI came out below consensus this morning (+2.0% yr/yr), and the retails sales report was above expectations. This coupled with a buyout rumor of ORCL for BEAS brought out the buyers.The NDX is up over +1.1% in early trading, quite a surprise. I know its still very early in the day, so we[...]

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But The Contract Says...

No matter what you do you can never cover all aspects of a purchase for real property. So, what happens when you have a properly drafted contract and the other party decides that this does not apply to them? A common example is when you take possession of your new home, only to find the seller has removed shelves, mirrors, plumbing fixtures or other "securely attached" items leaving holes in the walls and a big paint and repair job for you. For those buying and selling real estate, anything that is "securely attached" to the home i[...]

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Indices Cave In Steep Afternoon Slide!

Indices Cave in Steep Afternoon Slide!By Harry Boxer, The Technical Trader (www.thetechtrader.com) The markets had what in my mind is a huge negative downside reversaltoday, and it came suddenly. The day started out with a surge to theupside with strong pre-market futures. The market opened strong, workedits way higher to mid-day, began to back off a little bit after lunch,but then plunged. In an hour the Nasdaq 100 was down around 50 points,the S&P 500 around 20. They tried to bounce back, did a Fibonacciretracement, failed at resistance, and we[...]

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Cows To The Slaughter

The SF Chronicle ran this story in today’s business section about the tripling of Bay Area foreclosures:Foreclosure filings across the United States nearly doubled last month compared with September 2006...

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A Couple Of My Favorite Marin 1.0 Houses

I love watching the "selling" activity of the above San Rafael house. The highest official listing price I have seen for this house was $884,000 in mid-2006 (yes, it’s real DOM is that long). So if it were to sell at its current asking price that would be a price reduction of 33%. However, I am fairly confident that at the bubble peak this house could hav[...]

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I&#8217;m Moving To Wordpress!

I finally decided to move to an independent hosting platform. The new blog is called Living Off Dividends.I’ve been working on it for the past several days, which is why I haven’t been posting. I’m still working out some of the formatting issues, but all of the old posts have been ported over. Please check it out and let me know if they’re are any obvious bugs.Next I’ll be adding in the advertiser’s links, who will be enjoying links on both sites for the time being. After that, I’ll add the blog roll. Bloggers, please update you[...]

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Goog Getting Extended On Analysts Love Affair

A look at the chart above shows the big run Google (GOOG) has had. The green shading on the RIS Indicator at the top shows that the stock has moved into overbought territory. This makes the stock vulnerable to a pullback.One o[...]

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Real Estate: A Changing Industry In Alberta

Recently ’Alberta Venture’ magazine published an article onthe state of Real Estate and examined the differences between selling on yourown and using a REALTOR who markets their property through the Multiple ListingService.Since I was interviewed for the article I have a couple ofthoughts that Id like to share. Myinitial reaction is that this article was written with the perspective that realestate transacted through a Realtor is [...]

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No Trend Break, Though Market Mostly Lower

No Trend Break, Though Market Mostly LowerBy Harry Boxer, The Technical Trader (www.thetechtrader.com) The markets had a down day for the most part, other than the Nasdaq100, but it sure felt a lot better than that, because many of thestocks we follow had a strong session, particularly in the Chinesesector, which mostly had an exceptional day today.The day started out with some back and forth action on theNasdaq 100, while the S&P 500 dropped early. They did rallymid-morning, reaching the morning highs just before lunch hour, andthen the[...]

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How Low Can The Dollar Go

The US Dollar has lost 65% of its value against the Euro over the last 7 years. Its no coincidence that a massive Hedge Fund industry has risen in its wake.There are around 8,000 hedge funds globally managing over 2.5 trillion Dollars. All of them placing bets on global markets. Betting the market will rise, will fall, will do nothing. The vast majority are long-only which means they benefit from a rising market. The underlying trend behind this level of speculation - the likes of which the world has never seen is the fear of the worlds reserve currency, the U[...]

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Analysts Got It Right As Google Passes Wal-mart In Market Value

Regular readers of this blog know that sell-side analyst research reports are not something I reference very often for trading recommendations. The numbers show that analyst picks fail to beat the market consistently, and do so with more volatility, just as most mutual funds do. That said, given that most Wall Street research is positive in nature (they want you to buy stocks, after all, so they make money) there will be a lot of times that I agree with the analysts, merely due to probability.In May I wrote positively about search giant Google (GOOG) when it was trading in the low [...]

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Wednesday Split Market

Wednesday gave us a split market with the Nasdaq red and the S&P 500 along with the Dow closed red. Volume was higher on the Nasdaq and the NYSE, leaving an accumulation day on the Nasdaq and distribution on the NYSE. Crude closed up 99 cents at $81.25 a barrel and Gold was up $2.80 at $745.90 an ounce. Strange day really lackluster for the most part and left us in a narrow range. Into Thursday data picks up and should give us a wider range and the market will await inflation data Friday morning with GEs earnings. The Dow was very weak on Wednesday[...]

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Some September, 2007 Data

Insanely busy at work.I recently received some data from a realtor acquaintance of mine. According to her, for SFRs in September, 2007:Needless to say (so I’ll say it anyway), a year ago and more the percentage of SFRs selling below the asking price was essentially 0%.Marin Market Read More...

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Newswatch 10.9.07: GOOG Expands Vid Ads

GOOG expands video ads through AdSense[CompWorld] The program allows advertisers to distribute their video-based ads across the AdSense network, not just on YouTube, Google said in a statement. YouTube content partners can earn extra revenue from their clips. And Google will also earn money from ads attached to the video clips, which will be delivered "within a customized embedded player that’s ad supported," Google said.
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How Can I Double My Money In The Market?

I have an insurance settlement of $10,000. What’s the best way to invest this money to double or triple this amount? I have a 403b account that has a balance of $6,000 with deposits of $40 every two weeks. I am 25 years old and buying a house is one of my top priorities. I have a hard time saving money. My girlfriend thinks this money should go in a CD from Chase. They offer a 5.0 interest rate.First, I’m very happy to see you have already grown your 403(b) to $6,000. That amount alone, invested in an all equity portfolio, should be w[...]

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Nasdaq Approaching Upper Channel Of Uptrend

NOTE: Please click on the charts below to enlarge them if they do not appear clearly.After oscillating in a sideways range throughout most of the day, a positive reaction from the Fed policy minutes sparked a broad rally in the final ninety minutes of trading. This time, the S&P and Dow slightly outperformed the Nasdaq for a change. The Nasdaq Composite gained 0.6%, the S&P 500 0.8%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average 0.9%. The small-cap Russell 2000 climbed 0.7% and the S&P Midcap 400 rallied 0.8%. Each of the major indices closed near their intraday high[...]

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N&#8217;s Over S&#8217;s - Nasdaq Outperforming

The markets opened in negative territory, but the Nasdaq has pulled into the green in early trading.Costco (COST) reported a strong quarter, beating consensus estimates. The stock spiked higher by $5 to a new high.GOOG is getting more broker upgrades. Today, Merrill (MER) raised its price target to $740 from $590. They’re even more bullish than me!Alcoa (AA) reported earnings yesterday that were nothing to write home about. But the buyback was breathtaking. AA increased[...]

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Could there be a 'fourth way'?

I believe it's time we stopped looking across the Atlantic for inspiration: we've got more to learn about 'the good life' from our social democratic continental cousins

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Watching For Tight Consolidation In Gold Trust (GLD)

NOTE: Please click on the charts below to enlarge them if they do not appear clearly.Stocks kicked off the week with a session of divergence, as turnover fell across the board. The Nasdaq Composite cruised 0.3% higher, finishing at another fresh six-year high, but the broad-based S&P 500 declined by the same percentage. The Dow Jones Industrial Average similarly lost 0.2%. The small-cap Russell 2000 and S&P Midcap 400 indices were lower by 0.6% and 0.5% respectively. Price divergence between the major indices was prevalent throughout the entire day.[...]

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Why people deserve an inheritance tax break

It's time to take the politics out of the inheritance tax debate and recognise that sky-high house prices don't necessarily benefit homeowners

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Dueling Chart Patterns On The GPB/USD

Double click on the video image below for a larger view. October 8th look at the GBP/USDUploaded by ez2tradesoftware Get a free trial of Autochartist here
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Midday Update: Release Of Fomc Minutes

The markets have been vascillating between flat and up a touch most of the day. The FOMC minutes were just released, and after a brief dip the markets are again in positive territory.Here is a summary of the comments from the last FOMC meeting:Fed says without cut, tighter credit, housing slump could weaken output, employmentHalf-point cut appropriate to help offset effects of tighter financial conditionsFed says given financial shock, outlook for economic activity highly uncertain,risks skewed to downsideFed sought to avoi[...]

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More Reasons To Tear Down Those Walls

Recently I posted an article declaring everyone a liar. The premise was that people are becoming so distrustful of everyone because of the deluge of ads we get and the fact that we are by our nature not trustworthy. It...[...]

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