I’m Reading…Wow, people are really panicked.
Here’s what happened. Yesterday, Citigroup analyst Prashant Bhatia wrote an extremely negative report on E*Trade based on their announcement of exposure to mortgage securities where he put the likelihood of bankruptcy at 15%. How he calculated this, I don’t know. Maybe he estimated their exposure and risk [...]
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I’ve been resisting any comment on this topic, but I just had to note something.
VMWare, after its IPO at $29 per share, crossed over $100 today to close at $101.61. Since they have 383 Million shares outstanding, that’s a market cap of $38.91 Billion. EMC closed at $21.81, and with 2.1 Billion shares [...]
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76% rise from initial pricing of 29, which was up from the original range of $23-$25 per share. Close at 51. Amazing.
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The hottest software IPO of 2007 is likely just two weeks away.
VMware (VMW) has begun its official IPO roadshow, and has set tentative pricing of it’s IPO at $23 to $25 per share. EMC will be retaining an 87% stake in the company. The shares released to the public will be Class A shares, while [...]
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Tough choices tonight on the personal finance front.
I recently rolled over my 401k from eBay into an IRA. As a result, I now have the ability to better balance out my retirement portfolio across different asset classes.
In a previous post here, I discussed the launch of the first international REIT index ETF, the SPDR [...]
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So, I actually did get a Nintendo Wii for my birthday. And yesterday, for the first time, I actually had a free moment or two to hook it up and play with it. Since then, I’ve probably played a total of 60 minutes of Wii Sports, and I thought I’d capture some of [...]
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This quote may be by Mark Twain (or it may not).
If you want an example, here’s one:
How Google Hits $1000 a Share (2006)
[Cisco's] Market Cap Climbing to $1 Trillion (2000)
At least I’m not the only one who thinks so.
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First, credit for this article goes largely to “The Finance Buff“, a great blog I just discovered today. He wrote a post about Employee Stock Purchase Plans (ESPP) that really struck a chord with me, and I thought I’d share it with my readers.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) Is A Fantastic Deal
Most people think [...]
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I have been reading Herb Greenberg since he was a financial columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle (yes, there was a time when I had a subscription to that paper).
I followed him to TheStreet.com, and even ponied up $99 a year for a while for the privilege of reading his articles.
Now, he is at CBS [...]
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I found this article on the Motley Fool this week called “Is Lumber the New Gold“, and it reminded me why Timber might be my favorite asset class of all.
I was first introduced to Timber as an asset class at Harvard Business School, in one of my classes on Venture Capital & Private Equity. Dave [...]
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Big news this week. The Dow has closed over 12,000. Whoopee.
Sometimes, I am amazed at how incredibly stable certain staples of culture can be, even in the face of overwhelming logic & reason.
One example of this is the continued fascination that people have with the Dow Industrials index. This group of [...]
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