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  • Sirius XM: Ramp Up in Marketing of iPhone App Is a Positive Sign [View article]
    I think the i-Phone app will be another disappointment for SIRI shareholders.

    While I see the Sat-Rad app for the i-Phone an ingenious way to receive Sirius-XM and may be a great synergy for customers of both
    satellite radio and the i-phone, I don't see that many subscribers flocking to Sirius-XM simply because if they had wanted it they would simply have gotten sat-rad from another format.
    Jul 01 11:06 am |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Why It's a Good Time to Consider Chinese Stocks [View article]
    These comments are a lot more fun that the SIRI board on Yahoo Finance.

    I like the Chinese Solars!

    Made some money with them the last time oil was over 120.

    Looking forward to more next time around.
    JASO LDK CSIQ
    Mar 30 14:55 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Casino Stocks Scream Value Play [View article]
    ...every single casino was still just as crowded as ever.
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    Look at Boyd's earnings report today (8-1-08).
    The casinos have no product and no service that people buy except gaming. You can't possibly think that they can pay the electric bill on food, beverages and room rates. Gaming pays the majority of the bills and if there is one thing people like to do its gaming. Getting a "chance" to double their money without having to work. Plus its fun!
    Aug 01 11:15 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Pair Trade Visa and Capital One [View article]
    ...the number of times they are used will go down. This should reduce Visa's income.
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    In the last quarter reported, Visa cards were used 11 Billion times.
    Based on a 90 day quarter, which is was, the breakdown is over 83,000 time a minute.

    Ok, so three people don't use their Visa card as much.
    THAT will have a major impact on Visa's earnings. NOT!

    Saurischian
    Jul 02 10:50 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Visa: Trading Transparency [View article]



    On Jun 01 11:45 AM markb wrote:

    ... If I held some V I would be much more interested
    > in visiting the "Why Visa Sucks" website to pressure test my hypothesis
    > than being part of the Visa lovefest cult.
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    So, wanting to see the "Why Visa Sucks website," I went there and look what I foung in the first paragraph: "Being someone who has never had (because he’s never been offered) plastic, and lacking a bank account.."

    NEVER OFFERED PLASTIC?
    You simply go to your bank and apply for "plastic."
    But, that isn't possible for someone who doesn't have a bank account.

    It must be a blast to go down to the local currency exchange once a week to cash your paycheck and have all those money orders made up to pay your bills.

    Could it be that you do not have a bank account because you once had a checking account and couldn't understand how you could be overdrawn when you still had unused checks in your check book?

    Last thought: Visa thirty something? Yes, as in One Thirty Something!

    Nine
    Jun 02 12:58 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Visa Stock: Buy with Caution [View article]



    On May 27 10:31 AM floyd wrote:

    > Visa Champ or Chump?
    >
    > I bought visa at 78.00 last week. Will i be very happy a years from
    > now, or will i be left holding the bag? Will i be a Champ or a Chump?
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    78 bones is a nice entry. According to the point an figure chart:
    stockcharts.com/def/se...
    Visa should have a nice pop once it hits 84 for a double top.
    May 27 17:44 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Visa Estimates Upped Through 2010 [View article]
    "...you remember but SunTrust was out on MasterCard on June 15, 2007 with a hefty EPS raise (one that pretty much triggered another round of EPS raises by other firms)."
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    Watch for those "other firms" to raise expectations on V in the next two weeks.

    64 days until V announces second quarter results (July 30)!
    May 27 17:33 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Great MasterCard - Visa Debates  [View article]
    Visa did eleven billion (11,000,000,000) transactions last quarter.
    Baised on a 91 day quarter, they pulled 83,943 transactions per minute.
    I don't care what the processing fees are, Visa is making money hand over fist at that rate.

    I thought Amazon had a great holiday season with 62 transactions per second, but Visa had 1,400 per second at the above rate.


    On May 19 01:20 PM jmho wrote:

    > "the processing fees of 1 to 4 percent that are paid directly to
    > MasterCard and Visa" ... You are so far off base here. These fees
    > are paid to the banks by the merchants, not Visa or Mastercard. The
    > banks have an agreement between them on how a fee collected by a
    > Merchant's bank is "shared" with the Cardholder's Bank. Beyond the
    > obvious profit motive, these fees are reduce the risk to the banks
    > for credit card fraud (or did you think they were really just assuming
    > that libility).
    May 19 13:55 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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