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• Trickle-Up Austerity
• Forex Trading: Usd/hkd Consolidates After Breaking Out Of A Downward Wedge.
• Mortgage Settlement Pisses Into The Wind
• Sunday Links
• Process Vs. Outcome: Why The World’s Greatest Investors Focus Hard On Investment Process
• When To Sell Stocks – A Value / Fundamental Perspective
• O’Shaughnessy’s Tiny Titans Screen: A Small-cap Value And Momentum Strategy

Trickle-Up Austerity Posted: 12 Feb 2012 05:10 PM PST In the good old days before the financial crisis struck, trickle-down prosperity was the rage. But in today’s new normal, as My Budget 360 reminds us in “United States of Dollar Stores,” it’s more a matter of what one might call ”trickle-up austerity.” The fastest growing segment of dollar store customers are coming from those making $70,000 a year or more.  In fact, 1 out of 5 dollar store shoppers come from this group.  Keep in mind the median household income in the … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Forex Trading: Usd/hkd Consolidates After Breaking Out Of A Downward Wedge. Posted: 12 Feb 2012 04:22 PM PST usd/hkd consolidates after breaking out of a downward wedge and as long as it stays above the wedge it is a bullish … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Mortgage Settlement Pisses Into The Wind Posted: 12 Feb 2012 02:34 PM PST In a nation now all too familiar with a "too big to fail" banking system, a heavily manipulated and high frequency dominated equity market, and an incestuous financial regulatory system, we should not be surprised with a mortgage settlement that does little more than 'piss into the wind'. Pardon my cynicism but one does not need to look too deeply into the recently announced mortgage settlement to understand that there is little in the way of meaningful justice embedded in this … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Sunday Links Posted: 12 Feb 2012 02:27 PM PST 1. Bakken oil boom spreads to Montana as demand increases for commercial property in Billings. 2.  New staggering discovery of 23 billion barrels of oil and gas in Argentina, could double its oil and gas output within ten years. What “peak oil”? 3. Millions of patients are skipping their primary care doctors, and instead choosing faster, cheaper retail clinics. 4. Stuart Anderson: Analysis of new data obtained from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services reveals the agency has … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Process Vs. Outcome: Why The World’s Greatest Investors Focus Hard On Investment Process Posted: 12 Feb 2012 11:05 AM PST As we’ve discussed, the weight of evidence suggest that it’s possible to systematically beat the market over time, but that’s not to say that it’s easy – far from it. It requires a focused strategy, hard work and discipline. However, not enough attention is given to the importance of also having a good investment process. Over an investing lifetime, you are likely to make hundreds of investment decisions, maybe more. Some of those decisions will be successful, while others less so. … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

When To Sell Stocks – A Value / Fundamental Perspective Posted: 12 Feb 2012 06:53 AM PST A couple of weeks ago, we looked at the thorny issue of when to sell stocks, looking at the use of stop-losses and focusing on the telltale signs suggested by Bill O’Neill that a growth stock may be getting toppy. As should have been obvious, this approach suits a growth-focused investor like O’Neill who’s looking for rapid breakout, momentum stocks and wants to bail out of non-performing turkeys as quickly as possible. It’s less clearly applicable in the case of value investing, where one is … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

O’Shaughnessy’s Tiny Titans Screen: A Small-cap Value And Momentum Strategy Posted: 12 Feb 2012 12:00 AM PST In Brief Tiny Titans is a small/micro-cap strategy developed by O’Shaugnessy in his 2006 book, quot;Predicting the Markets of Tomorrowquot;. It looks for cheap small caps with upward price momentum. Background James O’Shaughnessy is an American investor and the founder and CEO of O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, (OSAM), an asset management firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. O’Shaughnessy wrote the seminal 1996 book quot;What Works on Wall Street" where he set out his renowned … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

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