Investment Gems

“If the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially, the committee will continue its purchases of agency mortgage-backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases and employ its other policy tools as appropriate” Those are Bernanke’s words. I feel really happy about this, it is one of those times in…

“[This decision] was not unanimous,” said Draghi, with a smirk on his face. I told you in European Jewels – Banco Santander that the politicians always do what is right… after they exhausted all the other options. May I use some presumption to say that I was right! I said that in the…

Yes, my next stock pick for this European turmoil is Statoil ASA. My second book of the European Jewels collection has just been released and it is about Statoil. In my book, a 10.000 words statement, I explain in a detailed and thorough manner why this is my second choice to join Santander…

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…