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Subject: Yahoo Finance

Yahoo! Finance is a service from Yahoo! that provides financial information. It is the top financial news and research website in the United States, with more than 18 million visitors in May 2008, according to comScore.
Yahoo! Finance offers information including stock quotes, stock exchange rates, corporate press releases and financial reports, and popular message boards for discussing a company’s prospects and stock valuation. It also offers some hosted tools for personal finance management. Yahoo! Finance Worldwide offers similar portals localized to assorted large countries in South America, Europe, and Asia. (Wikipedia Feb 2010)

Google Finance

Five reasons why Google Finance is a winner

By John Schroy, on August 20th, 2010 | One comment
By listening to feedback from investors and smart web design, Google engineers have created a top-notch research tool for investors.

Google Finances is a top-rated tool for investment research of US stocks. It features a smart, well-designed interface for fundamental or technical analysis. For both long-term investors and short-term traders, ease of use puts this tool ahead of Yahoo Finance in the US market. For further articles on Google Finance, sign up for the free RSS feed in the sidebar.

August 20th, 2010 | Print Article | Email Article Email Article | Topics: , , , , , , | Category: Security Analysis | One comment | Short url
The inefficient market

Free information has a time cost

By John Schroy, on April 21st, 2009 | One comment
Is Neuberger Berman

The Crash of 2008 showed that the Efficient Market Hypothesis was fantasy. Although there is a huge amount of free information about investments available on the Internet, this takes time to extract and understand and time has a cost.

With too much free information, the law of diminishing returns kicks in. Critical information passes unnoticed.

Technologies are now available that allow us to take advantage of free information more effectively.

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The Common Stock Legend

The Epiphany of Jeremy Siegel

By John Schroy, on June 1st, 2006 | 2 comments
The Glory of the Common Stock Legend

The topic “Baby Boom — Baby Bomb?” was debated by Michael Milken and Professor Jeremy Siegel in April 2006. This debate was featured in BusinessWeek in the article, “When Boomers Cash Out: A buy-and-hold legend sees tough times ahead.” Professor Siegel is the guru of the Common Stock Legend, having authored the best-seller, “Stocks for the Long Run”,

June 1st, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article Email Article | Topics: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Economic Theory, featured | 2 comments | Short url

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Stock buybacks

The Stock Buyback Era evaluated

The buyback era began when the SEC allowed issuers to manipulate prices to give value to executive options. Stock buybacks since 1982, in 2008 dollars, total $5.77 trillion. More ...

Securities Analysis

Does ‘SEC Total Return’ protect investors?

Millions of investors put money for retirement into mutual funds selected on the basis of "SEC total returns" and the name of the fund. This article explains how the SEC allows funds to use this misleading statistic to the detriment of investors and to the benefit of fund managers. More ...

US Politics

President Obama and the Lincoln Bible

The Crash of 2008 put Barack Obama in the Oval Office and was the culmination of two secular financial trends. Americans now have an untested, inexperienced leader, with strange radical friends and a leftist deficit spending agenda. More ...

US equities

Professor Siegel’s Epiphany

The topic "Baby Boom — Baby Bomb?" was debated by Michael Milken and Professor Jeremy Siegel in April 2006. This debate was featured in BusinessWeek in the article, "When Boomers Cash Out: A buy-and-hold legend sees tough times ahead." Professor Siegel is the guru of the Common Stock Legend.
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US Bonds

Bond demand exceeds supply for a decade

Over the decade, 1995-2004, the demand for US bonds of all types has surpassed new bond issues in eight of the last ten years. This is the reason that bond prices have held firm, even in 2003, when net new issues reached almost $1.8 trillion. More ...

World Economy

Signs of US losing its groove?

Thirty years ago, US income from abroad was more than double the amount of income that the US paid to the rest of the world. This year, or the next, this foreign income surplus may disappear forever. Is the US 'losing its groove'? More ...

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