Roger Cuddy

The Investment Circus: Why Mean-Ignorant Monkeys Beat Median-Jumping Clowns

On Apr 12 07:03 AM aarc wrote:
> Dow Jones made a rally from $42 in 1932 to $12,000 in year 2000.
> A massive 28,470% price appreciation over 68 years. Or an
> average of 418% price increase per year.

uh, that's like an 8.7% annual rate not 418%.

Amend Jingle Mail Laws

Look up the laws in states such as washington. There are numerous states where foreclosure is non-recourse and the lender cannot go after the borrower for anything beyond what the lender gets for the house itself. There is an industry springing up in these states to guide people through the process of walking out on the mortgage.

Dividend Aristocrats: Top Dividend Growers

BofA's annual dividend is running 2.56. If you have shares from 87 you are getting over 50% yield on initial investment.

Bear Stearns Fiasco a Reminder for Us Little Guys

It's incredibly easy to end up with a large portion of holdings in company stock. It's also incredibly important to make sure you rebalance to get it down to a reasonable amount of your total portfolio. The fiasco at Bear occurred during a black out period (because of the planned earnings announcement) where many employees would have been prohibited from trading it so it's also an example that you can't think you will quickly switch out if it starts heading south.

Yahoo To Cut 20% Of Its Workforce?

It would probably behoove Yahoo to take a hard look at where it's winning and where it's losing. I don't know anyone who would even think to go to yahoo for searching the web but at the same time we all use the finance site, finance.yahoo.com .

IncrediMail Gets A Stay Of Execution From Google

How incredimail continues to get people to use the very sub par program is beyond me. Given the many claims of spyware against it I don't even understand someone installing it for a look.

The Return of Tobacco: Safe Haven in a Volatile Market

Go mighty MO! Philip Morris/Altria has been a fantastic investment for decades and the future looks just as bright.

Citigroup: Buy Today for a Rainy Day

This is what, the third or fourth time that citi has been declared dead by many journalists in the last 20 or so years. This may or may not be the bottom but the point is sound. Buy now and stick away for a few years.

U.S. Supreme Court Screws Investors, Again

The court's decision was the best for investors. Lending any credence to the class action would have been terrible for the investment community. Unless you consider bringing suit a form of investment you pretty much have to be happy at the outcome.

ETFs with the Highest Yields/Lowest P/E Ratios

BBH had total distributions of around 11 dollars in 07, that's why it's showing such a high yield. Little if any of that was probably from the underlying yields but most databases won't distinguish.

26 Dividend Paying ETFs By Yield

The ETFs are market weighted or fundamental weighted. The average yield of the stocks comprising it is meaningless in the context of the ETF itself.