Duke Energy: A Second Income Stream With An Extra Yield Of 10.68%, Or A Lower Entry Price [View article]
Cool, if assigned you get it at the price you wanted. Only problem is it was the price you liked ages ago before whatever happened to it in the mean time that drove it down. You sold insurance to someone else and are now getting the leveraged risk your counter-party sought to escape.
If you are going to do this at least the odds are really good with DUK.
Solar power shares rise after Japan takes on the mantle of industry savior by approving a plan that could lead to at least $9.6B of new installations of solar cells. Power companies will be required to buy solar energy at Y42 per kilowatt hour ($0.53) for twenty years, or about double the tariff in Germany. FSLR +5.7%, SPWR +2.6%, STP +8.15%, DSTI +19.4%. [View news story]
20 years!! They will figure out how to keep virtually all the manufacturing in Japanese hands. At first there may be some partnerships with technology sharing. If you look up merchantilism in the dictionary you will find a map of Japan. I'm long solar but to expect significant benefit from Japan is a long shot unless it is in raw materials.
Farming has been slow to catch up with modern levels of efficiency attainable. As capital flows into farming it will release a lot of labor for other sectors. They will necessarily flow toward the cities and help support the real estate values. This is very dynamic and I defy you to come up with a reliable model. I doubt you can guess the prevailing interest rates over this period. Factor in the quality of construction and the probability of a killer earthquake.
Excellent article. Looks like their capital expenditures have declined slightly. Can we infer that they think their market won't sustain their past growth rate? If so, the PE may deserve a discount to peers. I like BKE and own it from time to time.
Aubrey McClendon may be losing his title of chairman, but he seems poised to keep his powers: Reuters reports the Chesapeake (CHK -2.5%) board has changed the bylaws to allow the CEO to keep powers he held as Chairman. McClendon and the still-unnamed chairman each will be able to call special meetings of shareholders and the board, leaving governance types scratching their heads. [View news story]
Raising the level of cynicism in the world, just swell. What does he have on the BOD members?
After a sweeping rebuke representing "total collapse of investor confidence" in Chesapeake's (CHK +3%) board - shareholders rejected two directors up for re-election and only 20% approved CEO compensation - is Aubrey McClendon's ouster next? Two-thirds of CHK’s board could be new appointees by July 1, and McClendon won’t have hand-picked any of them. [View news story]
To the extent that is true it in no way excuses the cavalierly self-serving activities of Aubrey. Try explaining what he has done to your kids and risk becoming a hypocrite in their eyes.
His past successes were in large part due to his high risk tolerance coinciding with market cycles. A risk taker with luck looks like a genius, visit Vegas for future study. Given what Aubrey is, he is good at it that is the only reason I have a substantial number of shares too.
Inflection Year For Nuclear Equities? [View article]
End of mankind?? Even residents of Hiroshima survived. We did megatons of above ground testing back in the day. Why go into hysterics, the loss of life from a reactor incident is small compared to the loss of life from wars originating over scarce resources.
Aubrey McClendon (CHK) reportedly has hired ex-SEC lawyer Marvin Pickholz to represent him in an SEC inquiry into $1.3B in personal loans he obtained from an investment firm doing business with the company. The SEC is said to be looking into whether the loans posed a conflict of interest or should have been disclosed to shareholders. [View news story]
Hired an ex-SEC lawyer, hey - never miss a chance to exploit special relationships. If things go well the lawyer can expand his practice with sufficiently friendly soon to be ex-SEC lawyers. Does the stench ever get strong enough?
Chevron (CVX) and ConocoPhillips (COP) sign a letter of intent with the government of Iraq to evaluate the feasibility of developing a petrochemical plant in the country. The joint venture and the government decline to provide further details, including cost estimates or dates for the project. [View news story]
Great set of comments undercutting your article. I would offer Jaime Dimon/JP Morgan Chase's recent blunder as evidence that even the best banks don't have a handle on risk and won't have a handle on it as long as there are tempting profits and bonuses in the casino.
A Reduction In Compensation Is Not Enough, Chesapeake's Board Of Directors Must Go [View article]
Best BOD money can buy, they and the CEO punch each other's tickets with the shareholder paying the fare. There may be no limit to there cupidity, I don't want to run that experiment, let them go. We the share price so low and the assets so great any officer should be happy with just option based compensation. Make me an offer...
The Housing Market Has Definitely Turned The Corner [View article]
Duke Energy: A Second Income Stream With An Extra Yield Of 10.68%, Or A Lower Entry Price [View article]
If you are going to do this at least the odds are really good with DUK.
Solar power shares rise after Japan takes on the mantle of industry savior by approving a plan that could lead to at least $9.6B of new installations of solar cells. Power companies will be required to buy solar energy at Y42 per kilowatt hour ($0.53) for twenty years, or about double the tariff in Germany. FSLR +5.7%, SPWR +2.6%, STP +8.15%, DSTI +19.4%. [View news story]
The Coming Time Bomb In China [View article]
The Buckle Is On Sale [View article]
like BKE and own it from time to time.
Aubrey McClendon may be losing his title of chairman, but he seems poised to keep his powers: Reuters reports the Chesapeake (CHK -2.5%) board has changed the bylaws to allow the CEO to keep powers he held as Chairman. McClendon and the still-unnamed chairman each will be able to call special meetings of shareholders and the board, leaving governance types scratching their heads. [View news story]
After a sweeping rebuke representing "total collapse of investor confidence" in Chesapeake's (CHK +3%) board - shareholders rejected two directors up for re-election and only 20% approved CEO compensation - is Aubrey McClendon's ouster next? Two-thirds of CHK’s board could be new appointees by July 1, and McClendon won’t have hand-picked any of them. [View news story]
His past successes were in large part due to his high risk tolerance coinciding with market cycles. A risk taker with luck looks like a genius, visit Vegas for future study. Given what Aubrey is, he is good at it that is the only reason I have a substantial number of shares too.
Inflection Year For Nuclear Equities? [View article]
Inflection Year For Nuclear Equities? [View article]
Aubrey McClendon (CHK) reportedly has hired ex-SEC lawyer Marvin Pickholz to represent him in an SEC inquiry into $1.3B in personal loans he obtained from an investment firm doing business with the company. The SEC is said to be looking into whether the loans posed a conflict of interest or should have been disclosed to shareholders. [View news story]
Chevron (CVX) and ConocoPhillips (COP) sign a letter of intent with the government of Iraq to evaluate the feasibility of developing a petrochemical plant in the country. The joint venture and the government decline to provide further details, including cost estimates or dates for the project. [View news story]
Why The Sell-Off In Stocks May Be Just Getting Started [View article]
Chevron Undervalued: Will The Stock Double? [View article]
Any consideration given to a Latin American trend to sue and expropriate?
What Euro Crisis? [View article]
A Reduction In Compensation Is Not Enough, Chesapeake's Board Of Directors Must Go [View article]
We the share price so low and the assets so great any officer should be happy with just option based compensation. Make me an offer...