Mr. Wynn

American Agency Mortgage: Huge Dividend REIT

Thanks for the article and also thanks to the many, clearly above-average intelligence commenters! I was thinking that the price of the REIT today looked a little high. What price is comfortable here? I realize we are talking about dividends so stock price should not figure in as much as a stock we might be trading, however the price does affect how many shares one might buy and hence affects the overall dividend payout each quarter. I welcome anything here including telling me how ignorant I am for asking this question!

Constant 'Bottoming Process' Calls Are Meaningless

I now watch CNBC purely for the beauty pageant aspect of it. Which anchor bunny is the hottest, that kind of thing. I like the serious Julia Boorstin one day but switch to the generous-mouthed and humorous Melissa Francis the next depending upon my mood. When in need of an exotic fantasy it is, of course Melissa Lee. But, suddenly, Trish Regan's dark-haired good-looks will dominate my senses (I fantasize her and me at Columbia taking our MBA's together; would she marry me? mmmm, no).

But vying for top spot, always lurking in the background, are Erin Burnette and Michelle Caruso-Cabrera. No matter how many other hot CNBC anchorbabes I see - Diane Olick and Becky Quick flash across the mind's eye - Erin and Michelle keep swimming back into focus, waving to me like scuba divers in a huge hotel aquarium. Hi, Mr. Wynn!

Hi, Erin. Hi, Michelle. Either of your to girls free for dinner?


On Dec 11 10:25 AM mcadoo3312 wrote:

> Agreed with everyone else. I am starting to think Becky Quick is
> one of the "better" anchorbunnies.

Pimco's Bill Gross: Jim Cramer Is 'Courageous' and 'Entertaining'

No single person should ever be taken for your entire market strategy, but I find the usual piling on of Jim Cramer typical of people who actually never really watched his show for any extended period. Yes, he is wrong as often as he is right (few are better), but he does hammer home some sound advice which you could get elsewhere but which he, nonetheless, offers again: diversify and do your homework. The rest of his show is mostly to entertain. I agree with the above commenter that Fast Money is a better play because there are four different views expressed and at least another two guests to give you the broadest picture. I do find that I watch Fast Money nowadays more than I watch Cramer; but I got a sound footing with Cramer that I am glad to have, and for that I am grateful to him.

Top Nine Stocks Going Ex-Dividend Mid-September

Buy the stock before the ex-dividend date and don't sell it until after that date has passed. Then you get the dividend without having to hold onto the stock long-term.

Foreigners Selling U.S. Stocks: A Good Sign

Are we reading here that foreigners are just lousy investors? That they sell just before our market goes into a nice, long ascent? Hey, I'll believe pretty much anything at this point.

Mid-Year Report: Is a Summer Turn-around Still Possible?

I think sagesteve is hilarious. I also think he's b.s.ing us just to get a rise, which he did.

Jim Kingsdale: Selling SQM and Bullish on Dryships

Kamal, you got it right: FMC is a great way to play the chemical space and ag space as well.

The U.S. Supreme Court Is Full of Daytraders

I tend to agree with tuj on this though almost everyone who is in a job in gov't probably owns some mutual funds and there are so many stocks in these funds that the fund investor may have no idea that he is an owner of this or that equity. It would go beyond the SCOTUS to every department in the Federal Government. Justice, Energy, Defense, Interior, EPA, you name it, most of these people's pensions are invested in a myriad of diverse stocks. Where do we draw the line? I'm not disagreeing, I'm just poiinting out the difficulties in trying to ensure fairness and impartiality.

Fed Delivers a Steep Yield Curve: A Bull’s Best Friend

I am glad that there are commenters on this article because I am very ignorant when it comes to the yield curve and I would have accepted the article's premise without reflection. Thanks, guys.

Buying the Dollar? Be Selective.

Wake me when something interesting appears...

Can Exactech Keep the Momentum Going?

I have had EXAC on a watchlist since Apr 25 of '07. In that time the stock is up more than 57%. Did I pull the trigger? Of course not, that would have been too farsighted of me. It drives me nuts sometimes to look at my watchlists and to see how much some companies have moved since I started watching them. I am tempted to buy Exactech now but I'm a little afraid that the multiples are getting stretced too much. They report tomorrow (the 29th) and I just can't see my way clear to do it. I may continue my regret if they come in with great earnings. I have to stay away from the coulda woulda syndrome. Great company, though.

The Realities of Natural Gas

I have got to say that the article was written in the most professorial/academici... way which is to say, it was not well-written regardless whether it had good information or not. It was classically obfuscatory and for the non-academic mind, muddled and wordy. Two of the commenters have restated what was in the article in much more succinct fashion using fewer words and extracting what was important from all the excess verbiage. Professor, learn to write plainly. No wait, that is an oxymoronic sentence, isn't it? Forget it. As long as we can get some interpreters I suppose we'll do OK. God save us from the Academy!

DryShips Deserves More Love

One thing Cramer has not done is "pump" DRYS. I know because last summer I called in to ask that very question, and Cramer was very cautious about the whole sector; he gave me a weak "OK" on it. But then, within a week, he decided that the only dry shipper he liked was Diana. Finally he just got off the sector entirely. He has said repeatedly that he doesn't like the drybulk shippers ever since he had the Chairman of Diana (DSX) on his show. He got gun-shy after the Chairman (Simeon P. Palios) was less than certain about the future. Also, the volatility of the whole sector turned Cramer off. Do people just blurt out things about Cramer without knowing anything at all about what he has or has not said? The way some of you write gives you away. LOL? Who says that on a serious financial site? How old are you, 15?
I've made great money with DRYS and Excel Maritime (EXM) by trading the stock over relatively short periods of time, and I am going to again. Economou said late last year that 2008 would be a year in which DRYS would be operating wholly in the spot market because he believed that there was greater opportunity there than in the time charter market. That high BETA is earned because spot prices are notoriously volatile. But if Economou is right - and I think he's a sly old devil who is not in business to lose money - then DRYS should return - perhaps by mid-year - to its previously lofty shareprice or 131 and change. These current prices are sensational for buying in, but if you do not have the stomach for risk, and if you are more used to writing on the Yahoo BBs, then stay away from DRYS and stay away from here.

Ethanol Stocks Continue to Fall Hard

How much did your food cost? A loaf of bread? A pound of hamburger meat? Any savings from this water-hungry product are wiped out by the fact that corn-based ethanol is a huge detriment to agriculture. Food prices are soaring and much of that has to laid at the doorstep of corn-based ethanol which takes more land, water, and energy to produce than it's worth. It's a net loser for the consumer, and all so we can say we're "green"!

Not All Is Green in Alt. Energy ETF Land

Cree's whole business today is pointed towards LED lighting. Take a look at their website. Yes, they make chips, LED chips to be precise, but they are the largest LED lighting manufacturers in the world if I'm not mistaken. They are in the forefront of the next big change in environmental lighting, will it be compact flourescents or Light Emitting Diodes? I'm going with LED lighting. It still needs to produce more candlepower for some situations, etc., but for lower light environments it can't be beat. And the cell phone you're holding is backlit probably with a Cree LED chip. As the backlighting in your car's dashboard instrument cluster probably is, too. This company's going to be the major producer of most if not all of the lighting solutions for at least the first fifty years of this century.