If the RIMM Comeback is Real…

Research in Motion ($RIMM) is up – stand back – 65% in the last 90 days while it’s chief nemesis Apple ($AAPL) is down – DOWN – 13.5% during the same stretch. If someone had told you to short Apple and go long RIMM back in August, you would have cackled like a crackhound. Oh…

Wack Friday

Yes, I’ve renamed Black Friday. It shall henceforth be known as Wack Friday, my contempt for the entire concept can be best summed up below by my early morning tweet stream… MarketWatch has a story up today that dissects this stupidity with much more data and eloquence. They list the ten things stores won’t tell…

Motley Fool on How to Read Financial News

I just wanted to say thank you Morgan Housel and the whole gang over at Motley Fool for the shoutout they gave to me and a few of my blogger friends this week… The below is Morgan’s regular reading list, most of which I agree with:   Any half-serious investor should have a Wall Street…

The World According to Joe

My friend Joe Weisenthal is at his very best when everyone else is off doing vacation things or holiday stuff and he’s got reams of headlines to parse that no one else is paying attention to. This morning he sums up the global picture for us all very nicely with an at-the-moment glance at “what’s…