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    • Wed Jul 9th 08:23 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sell and Short Recommendations for a Bearish Market
      Having Invested for 40 years, made more money than I could ever spend and never having shorted a stock, nor bought sold options, I am amused that a short seller can crow about success during a Bear market. We have been in a downtrend for months brought on by the sub prime mess, lack of liquidity among the financials and the high price of oil, (by the way shorting Oil producers like XOM during $140.00 oil is a death wish. ) If Oil was $100 a barrel, XOM would be coining money and even it's refining division would become more profitable, as the crack spread widened. Recommending shorting Airlines & Autos (Ford, GM, etc) could have been done two years ago. I cannot remember the last time Airlines or American Car Companies ,made money with onerous Union contracts and rising gasoline prices.In fact, since Wilbur Wright flew the first plane, the business has lost money and I don't expect to see General Motors, Ford nor Chrysler in their existing form in five years. What's left of them will be sold off to Toyota, Honda and Tata.
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    • Wed Jul 9th 08:13 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Dow 30 Earnings Reports
      This is about the most useless article I've seen yet!
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    • Wed Jul 9th 08:11 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Chesapeake Energy: Truckin', Like the Do-Dah Man
      I've been a CHK shareholder for 8 years, hold 27,000 shares and have no problem with a secondary to pay off debt. The dilution will be minimized by increased production and lower borrowing costs through pay down of debt. CHK has the best management team in the energy area, and I suggest you calm down. Carl Ichan's record hasn't been too good lately..... McClendon has been hitting home runs!
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    • Tue Jul 8th 14:20 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Can Big Oil Balance Shareholder Interest Against National Interest?
      You play the blame game. If the cost of producing oil has gone up, it must be some sort of conspiracy. The facts are that easy to find oil is gone and Asia is sucking up all excess supply for their rapidly expanding economies. XOM is no responsible for the price of oil than you or I. Oil is traded on a world wide basis, and those who blame "speculation"... and say control futures traders, would find themselves laughed at by the traders in Hong Kong, England and Europe. This country has already regulated business to the point where it is far more reasonable to establish a new business overseas. Your view is the typical Liberal view that someone else is responsible for the world's ills. When we have politicians who insist Saudi Arabia produce more oil, when they refuse to allow more production off shore, in the Rockies or in Alaska, they should look in a mirror when they blame others for the high cost of oil. When they say, "well, it will take five years to get production from Anwar", it's the same thing they said ten years ago. XOM is no more responsible for $4.00 gasoline than I am for some poverty stricken bum who wants to sit on his ass and get supported by some Government program, that we taxpayers have to pay for. Only in America, I cannot be forced to support my own adult children, but can be forced through my taxes to support the children of some illegal alien. With guys like you, what a country!
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    • Tue Jul 8th 14:09 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      10 Top Dividend Stocks of the S&P 500
      The Canadian Gov't takes 15% off the top for taxes, which you can get a tax credit for by filling out the proper form when you file your tax return. the dividends from the Canadian trusts are qualified for the 15% dividend rate, so it's a wash and you pay the same as if you were paying the U.S. tax rate
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    • Tue Jul 8th 10:55 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Can Big Oil Balance Shareholder Interest Against National Interest?
      I see no reason why an oil producer is responsible to find a product that will put them out of business. That sort of technology is best solved by private Industry. Oil companies have no more moral responsibility to the public than the food industry which charges high prices for foodstuffs and has higher margins than XOM or CVX. The oil companies sole responsibility is to their stockholders, not "some over all good" which is a socialist concept.
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    • Tue Jul 8th 10:50 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      10 Top Dividend Stocks of the S&P 500
      This is a useless list as it doesn't explain the high dividends. Most of these company's stocks have dropped up to 50% and the chance is great that the dividends will be cut. The writer should have included stoccks like Canadian Oil & Gas trusts that pay dividends (monthly) like HTE, PWE and the like. I have owned these for years and they produce solid, high dividends.
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    • Sun Jul 6th 16:16 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      20 Guidelines for the Individual Investor
      About the only think he forgot to say is "don't buy after they go chapter 11"
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    • Sun Jul 6th 08:09 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      20 Guidelines for the Individual Investor
      Just about the most useless example of advice I have had the misfortune to read. Filled with generalizations and names that have already have had good run. Advising to sell when an insider sells stock in most cases is not as meaningful as who the Insider is and how his annual pay is computed. Watching a CEO & Management buy is far more bullish than watching a director sell. Adice such as seal at a "peak" ridiculous, unless you have a ouija board, to tell you what the peak is. Successful Investors do not sell winners, but losers and let the winners run. I have a position in PM, MO & KFT that started 30 years ago with 1,000 shares and now is 20,000 MO, 20,000 PM & 13,000 KFT. When should I have sold? My dividends amount to over $75,000 a year, twive what I paid for the original position. What "peak" would he have had me sell at? I did the same with PG, JNJ, XOM, etc
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    • Wed Jun 25th 09:50 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      U.S. Bank Dividend Yields Revisited
      I've owned 6,000 shares of BAC for many years. By buying Countrywide, Ken Lewis has risked the credibility of what , in my opinion was the best bank. If he is able to make this buy a success and not cut the dividend, I will apologize, but if the dividend is cut, that s.o.b. should get thrown out on his ass, without a parachute!
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    • Mon Jun 23rd 11:32 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      EOG Resources: Continue to Buy on Pullbacks
      Why should the Saudi's use up their reserves when the U.S. won't? The Democrats want $8.00 gasoline and they will get it! I doubt if Kerry, Kennedy et al and their greenie friends will give up their limo's and SUV's.
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    • Sun Jun 22nd 10:27 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      An Alternative to America’s Gasoline Crisis
      The fact of the matter is that there are 200,000,000 conventional cars in the U.S. that run on Gasoline and the owners cannot afford to junk them in favor of hydrogen, electric or other forms of power. What they must have is gasoline at lower prices. This will never happen, with this Congress and if Obama gets elected. More drilling and production and refining is necessary , and as long as the Democratic party is in the pocket of the pseudo greens, people betterv get used to $4.00 and $5.00 gas, just like the rest of the world has. France gets 90% of it's electricity from nuclear power, while we get 10%. Our cheapest form of power generation is coal, which we have huge quantitites of, but the Democrats hate coal as well as any other fossil fuel. They talk about wind and solar, which is all well and good, but anyone that figures a way to run a car with either of those will win a real Nobel prize, not the political joke Al Gore walked away with. Al Gore, with all his bullshit, perdsonally uses more energy than most small towns and more gasoline in his limo's and private plains than a fleet of cabs. I'm a twice wounded Korean War Vet, whose father was wounded in World War I and is turning in his grave seeing what America's youth has turned into. The Greatest Generation , that went to war gladly in 1941n when we are attacked at Pearl Harbor no longer exists. Our youth has turned into a bunch of self centered, spoiled sissys, that would no more defend this country than they would voluntarily give up their S.U.V.'s. They have about as much knowledge of economics as a sludge and think Obama's ideas of taking that from those who earned it and giving it to those who haven't is great. What a country!
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    • Sun Jun 22nd 10:13 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Top 10 Payout Yield Stocks
      This article is about as useless as teats on a horse. If Investors want higher yield with safety, slow capital gains and increasing dividends, they would do well to look at the MLP pipeline stocks. I have owned thousands of shares of KMP, OKS, MWE, TPP, EEP & NRP, all pipelines except NRP, which is a coal L.P. All pay over 6%, have raised their dividends between once and four times a year, for the past five years and the yield is tax deferred until the stock is sold, since most of the dividend is return of capital. These stocks are paid solely to move product (natural gas or oil) through a pipeline and are paid by volumn and are not effected by the price of the commodity. Total return for most of these stocks has been between 12%-18% a year since 2,000. Advising an Investor to buy a stock with a high dividend likely to be reduced is idiotic.
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    • Thu Jun 19th 14:24 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      General Garbage
      What G.E. needs is a new CEO. Immelt has ruined a once great company. Since the day he took the reins of the company, it's gone down the tube. NBC has turned into a left wing network, with the lowest ratings, MSNBC has the lowest rating of ANY cable network and Immelt continues to make promises and fail to deliver. How long is it before shareholders throw out Immelt and the entire board. I have been a long time holder of 6,000 shares of GE and regret the day, I bought the stock.
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    • Thu Jun 19th 14:19 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Oil Majors' Divergence from Crude at Record
      These morons who want to end "speculation"... and "hedging" and buying "futures" are too dumb to realize that oil is commodity traded world wide. Speculators and hedgies can buy and sell on the London or other exchanges, whereas eliminating such activity here will have no effect on priceds, demand or supply. The Congress is the problem, not the solution to high energy prices. To tell OPEC to up their production while refusing any more production increases here in the U.S. is idiotic and just typical of the hacks we send to Congress election after election. The people who blindly continue to vote for their Congressional Reps and Senators who refuse to allow more drilling for oil deserve $8.00 gasoline, not $4.00. And they will get it, should Obama get elected.
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