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ETFs at Center of Vanguard vs. Fidelity Dispute

Fidelity's trading fees are comparable to discount brokers (from $8 to $19.95 per trade), so even if you don't trade the Fidelity ETF, they still make money (assuming you trade through them).

On Aug 30 08:55 PM baller wrote:

> In it's "Fidelity Investor's Monthly" the lead story is about trading
> ETFs. An interesting take on a company that has only "dabbled" in
> ETFs.

Hewlett-Packard Kills Its Greenest Desktop – For Now

You aren't being serious, are you? A typical desktop PC these days runs on a power supply can supply anywhere from 300W to over 1000W. Newer CPUs consumes around 100W - mine is rated at 130W. To be really "energy efficient", use a low power CPU - if you use a 85W CPU instead of my 130W, you can save around 40 times the energy you saved by switching from a regular HDD to a SSD. The real reason for SSD is its "reliability" - it doesn't spin like regular HDDs. SSDs are still too expensive at this point - for around $100 you can get maybe a 32GB SSD or a regular HDD with over 1TB (1024GB).

Disclosure: Long HPQ, my single largest stock holding

How Banks Give Up Trust for Money

On "predatory" no interest credit card loan, as long as you have a clear mind to keep track of it, it's free money. I don't usually take these offers because
1. there is a balance transfer fee of 3%
2. I almost always pay off my balance

Last year I got a Chase 0% APR offer with no balance transfer fee (unheard of), plus I was going to buy a plane ticket overseas. I took the offer and ended up segregated the exact amount to pay off into CDs/separate savings account. It was good deal at that time (rates were at 5%), not so good these days.

How to Invest in Asia with ETFs

I'm going to toss in 2833 as a tracker of the HSI listed in Hong Kong. If I remember correctly it has a lower expense then 2800 but has a higher minimum transaction amount.

More Mutual Funds Investing in Hedge Funds

Interesting...... With a minimum entry of $1M, the net asset of $11.9M tells me that there are at most 11 investors in this fund.

Attractive Hong Kong Stocks

The unique status of Hong Kong makes it immune to almost any political risk. People rioting in NW China is definitely not going to storm Hong Kong. From another perspective, there are demonstrations on the anniversary of the return to China and candle vigil on the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre every year, yet they are all peaceful demonstrations - what happens on the street after soccer games in Europe can easily be worse. And as far as I can recall, anything that you can call a "riot" in Hong Kong probably happened 4 or 5 decades ago. It's the economy that's driving the Hong Kong market.

On Jul 08 10:11 AM Graham and Dodd Investor wrote:

> Hong Kong stocks are certainly attractive on a stand-alone basis.
> That may not be the case after taking into account political risk.
> Hong Kong is a lot closer to the Uighur riots in Northwest China
> than it is to the U.S., to take just one example.

The New-Look Dow: Cisco Makes Sense but Why Travelers?

Perhaps a typo:
Its (Cisco) servers essentially run the Internet - they just announced that they are entering the server market a couple months ago. Their networking equipment runs the Internet instead, not servers.