Boubou

Dividend Paying Stocks: You Only Have to Be Lucky Once

This article tells it as it is. Bravo.
I get very sick of hearing professionals talk about how with their superior resources and brains, they can predict the patently unpredictable.
And poeple want to believe it.
The present legal statement to the effect ' Assets can go down as well as up.........the past is no indication.....you may lose capital.........." .blah blah needs to be strengthened to something like;-
" Neither this institution nor any other knows what will happen to your investment. Nevertheless, our fees may ensure that any return over your lifetime is reduced by up to 60%. It is unlikely that our results will exceed those of a random selection of assets"

General Electric Moves On Down the Largest Company List

I see my ge long term bond is trading more like AA- than AAA.
Is this ominous?

Not Off the RIMM - Cramer's Lightning Round (9/3/08)

When the likes of Cramer finally get into an underrated sector like shipping, then the party is usually over.
His 50% accuracy could easily be aachieved by a cave man.
Lately he's been saying 'don't follw my recs. - do your own homework -an hour per stock followed'.
What!?!!?
My hour is now better than his full-time passionate pursuit of perfection??

FRO for example has been despised by analysts for ten years, during which time it has payed excellent dividends along with some useful growth. You can also trade the rather predictable ups and downs.

False Data Clobbers the Markets

Ozzy,thanks for the abundance of sources for data and analysis.
Its a pity that the credibilty of the government, industry and the media is so utterly trashed., and this article doesn't help.
Everyone now starts from the position ' what agenda is served by the latest round of lies and distortion ?'

Most poeple feel better when they believe in something or somebody.
Unfortunately we have to get along without that.

Analyst Buy and Sell Ratings for Stocks and Sectors

I have owned fro for years, taking huge dividends and also trading a fraction on its easily-spotted oscillations - making money, All that time analysts have by and large hated it. Will anybody ever learn that there is no such thing as analysis?
A successful analyst would keep the info to himself and by now he'd be drinking cocktails in the Caribbean.