Investment Gems

Apple now owns the record of the most valuable company ever. Actually it is still on its way, since Microsoft reached around $620 billion market capitalization which adjusted for inflation would mean something like $850 billion. Can Apple get there? Honestly it can, the company is fantastic, it is still living inside Steve Job’s…

Facebook has lost more than half of its market value, and might lose a lot more. In my Why Did the Facebook IPO Failed so Hard post I described the main reasons why the Facebook IPO couldn’t be successful. However as the situation keeps evolving I see worrying signals. The company…

I went on vacations without finishing my 2nd book, I wasn’t really getting anywhere at the time and I honestly needed to cool down to see if I was on the right track or not. Fortunately almost every time I went astray in my life one or two weeks off solved the problem. So…

So I went on vacations and what happened? Surprisingly the markets performed rather well. Last year when I started my vacations, it also started a worldwide meltdown that ended up being one of the key developments in 2011. This year it was much better and most of all the stocks that I…

This blogger is going on vacations, and I am not writing about the stock market and stuff  until 13/08. Good vacations for you if it is the case 🙂

The secret about beating the market is all about doing the exact opposite, every time you have a fundamental sounding argument that the market is wrong. One example of this procedure is to buy stocks during panic situations. However there is a big problem: if the panic goes on like 2008, do you have the…

This post aims at showing you how you can perform a simple financial evaluation of an investment possibility to decide if it may or may not be a suitable opportunity. This is not a full analysis, it is just a financial analysis, that does not take into account the company…

So welcome to the new lay-out of European Jewels blog, I think the change was for the best, but let me now if you disagree. Nothing was lost, all the previous posts are still available. Quick comments about the Draghi’s remarks about doing everything to save the EUR: i) It…

Germany is under fire from the rating agencies. I had outlined this in a previous post,  the dangers of the German sovereign debt and how it isn’t a safe haven anymore. Europe is going for self destruction, and it does not seem to acknowledge that fact. It is sad to see the EU…

There is not much going on in Portugal right now, except maybe the fact that the country does not have money, and one FMI team has been around for one a whole year counting pennies and cutting flesh (by flesh I mean tax payers). So lots of companies are closing…