Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Warren Buffett and Vanguard’s Jack Bogle come out against High Frequency Trading. (ZeroHedge) Consumers deleveraging big time. Not sure why this didn’t get more attention when announced yesterday, big story. (FTAlphaville) Iran is getting close to a big nuclear breakthrough…maybe Obama should have lunch with them or something, maybe a…
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Congrat's to Jamie Dimon, On Time's 100 Most Influential List
Magazine editors love making lists for the simple reason that people love buying magazines that contain lists. Everyone loves a ranking, even a nonsensical ranking, like a list of the most influential people in the world. Time Magazine put out its World’s Most Influential 100 People in 2009 list this week and as usual, the…
Your Oil Stocks Aren't Coming Back, Chulo
Remember when Intel (INTC), Microsoft (MSFT), Dell (DELL), Lucent (ALU), Yahoo (YHOO) and Cisco (CSCO) ruled the markets? There was an era, roughly 1997 to 2000 when those stocks actually mattered. They were important companies doing big things in terms of providing the technology needed for the next century’s communications and internet build-out. And then,…
Top 10 ETFs They Haven't Created Yet
With over 400 Exchange Traded Funds (ETF’s) on the market right now and new ones being issued each week, it would seem that we could be reaching the point of ETF overload. That said, it would be tough to say that we have too many ETF’s until we get to the point that we start seeing products like the ones listed below…