Curious Investments
Tech Bargains
As the market for “new” tech stocks has gone wild again (see LinkedIn, Groupon, and the omnipresent chatter about Facebook), my interest has been piqued by the surfeit of tech bargains that seem to have appeared in the “old” tech stocks of yore. Cisco, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, all are trading at less than 7x [...]
read more »SP500 to Gold
Once again, thanks to Zero Hedge, saw this very interesting chart in an article promoting a return to the gold standard. To be honest, I have no idea what it means to return to the gold standard or what merit it’s perceived to bring. The comments on the Zero Hedge post are just a mess, [...]
read more »Effect of Oil Prices on the US Consumer
Great chart courtesy of Zero Hedge. This is part of the reason that from a portfolio perspective, I always like to keep some oil exposure for diversification. Full Disclosure: Author long shares of TOT and LINE at the time of writing
read more »Net1 UEPS Technologies
It’s been a while and for that I apologize. Truth be told, I had gotten my portfolio almost fully invested by mid-last year. And, as the stock intense rally we’ve seen in stocks through 2009 has turned flat since the new year, I’ve been much less aggressive with my personal portfolio and as such have [...]
read more »Ares Allied Merger Arb Opportunity
In my prior post, “Allied Capital Goes from Value Trap to Deep Value,” I made the point that the Ares/Allied acquisition created a potentially interesting merger arbitrage opportunity. As astutely pointed out by commenter BeauZeau at Seeking Alpha, the merger arbitrage opportunity is not quite as large as I portrayed. In a classic merger arbitrage, [...]
read more »Are Apple bulls exhausted?
I’ve written extensively about Apple this past year. And, not without reason. Investing in the stock has been a very fun ride ($89 – $200 in a little over 6 months). The Company whether it be delighting users with new products or frustrating users with its mismanagement of the iPhone app approval process has managed [...]
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