-
Temporarily Selling E-House Holdings (EJ) Pending Spinoff IPO
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 10:33am | 586Since I am using a virtual portfolio and I am not sure how it will handle a potentially complicated transaction I am going to temporarily sell E-House Holdings (EJ) pending the spinoff / IPO of China Real Estate Information (CRIC) [Sep 30, 2009: China Real Estate Information Seeks US IPO Worth $...
-
Fund Performance Period 10
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 4:28pm | 3764As a reminder, if you are interested in this type of fund as a worthwhile consideration for future investment, please consider reading why this blog exists. [Jan 7, 2008: Reader Pledges Toward Mutual Fund Launch] [May 26, 2008: Frequently Asked Questions] Our story in Barron's [A New Kind of Fund...
-
Bookkeeping: Many Limit Orders Hit
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 10:51am | 564I had a bevy of limit orders hit this morning - these are all mechanical trades that I set out earlier and just happened to hit at once this morning. First the limit purchases - these are not huge purchases but get us some exposure at far better prices than were to be had the past few weeks. All...
-
Bookkeeping: Cutting Back E-House Holdings (EJ)
Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 10:41am | 429We just added to our position in E-House Holdings (EJ) Tuesday - took it up to roughly a 3% allocation; I am cutting back about 40% of the stake on this quick spike in price. It's jumped from $20 to $22.80 in two sessions; my limit sell order at $22.70 hit this morning. So I've sold the shares we...
-
E-House Holdings (EJ) in Investors Business Daily
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 1:36pm | 1683This article is a bit dated as it comes from August but it's a good summary of Chinese real estate company E-House Holdings (EJ). The risk with this company right now as I see it, is it is in many ways a direct play on how the Chinese are pulling the strings on loan growth. [Aug 12, 2009: E-House...
-
Today's Morning Top Gainers (GBE,OPXA,FBC,ILI,ASTI)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 11:43am | 293Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE) is among the top percentage gainers in morning trade and surged among 26.32% today to $1.68 on huge volume of 4.56 million shares. Yesterday, the stock surged over 38%. Opexa Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: OPXA) rallied 22% on 6.38 million shares and now trades at...
-
Fund Performance Period 9
Monday, September 14, 2009 - 3:49pm | 2767As a reminder, if you are interested in this type of fund as a worthwhile consideration for future investment, please consider reading why this blog exists. [Jan 7, 2008: Reader Pledges Toward Mutual Fund Launch] [May 26, 2008: Frequently Asked Questions] Our story in Barron's [A New Kind of Fund...
-
NYT: Cautiously, Small Investors Edge Back into Stocks
Friday, September 11, 2009 - 3:13pm | 1769In a different era, these sort of stories made me edgy - usually when the retail investor (no offense to those future investors of mine) ;) - gets bullish, I want to take the other side of the trade. But we live in a new era of ever increasing asset prices paid for by slow but systematic...
-
Cognizant (CTSH) Buys Pepperweed Advisor Assets
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 7:33am | 114Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH), a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing (BPO) services, announced the take- over of substantially all of the assets of Pepperweed Advisors. Pepperweed Advisors is the IT consulting services division of Pepperweed Consulting. The...
-
Fortune: China's Amazing New Bullet Train, and America's Amazing Railroad Oligarchs
Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 3:43pm | 1734Warren Buffet is no dummy - there is a reason he loves the US railroads as investments; essentially no competition. Anyhow, like 2 ships passing in the night - let us look at the rail prospects in the US v China with 2 articles from Fortune. Notwithstanding, that the U.S. is technically broke (in...
-
Markets In Everything: A U.S. Call-Center That Pays $100K a Year And Has Doubled Workforce in Ohio
Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 5:11pm | 352BUSINESS WEEK -- Consider iQor, a call center and business process outsourcing company based in Columbus, Ohio, that's increased revenues at a 40% clip for the past four years. It's done this primarily by expanding its U.S. operations. IQor also gives its U.S. employees universal health insurance,...
-
JLL Announces Expiry of Its Offer to Acquire Patheon
Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 7:49am | 73JLL Partners, Inc. (NYSE: JLL) and its affiliate, JLL Patheon Holdings, LLC announced today that a total of 33,854,708 Restricted Voting Shares in the capital of Patheon Inc. have, since commencement of the offer, been validly deposited to JLL's offer to acquire. This is at a price of $2.00 cash...
-
Endo Pharmaceuticals (ENDP) to commercialize FORTESTA(TM) with ProStrakan
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 9:05am | 41Endo Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ENDP) signed an agreement with U.K.-based ProStrakan Group plc (LSE: PSK) for the exclusive right to commercialize FORTESTA(TM) (testosterone gel) 2 percent in the United States.
-
Innovotech Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 4:55pm | 471EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Aug. 18, 2009) - Innovotech Inc. (TSX VENTURE:IOT) today announced its unaudited financial and operational results for the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2009. Highlights: - Company shows revenue increase over second quarter 2008. - Positive clinical...
-
TSX Venture Exchange Daily Bulletins for August 18, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 4:26pm | 3471VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Aug. 18, 2009) - /T/ TSX VENTURE COMPANIES 71 CAPITAL CORP. ("SVN.P") BULLETIN TYPE: Halt BULLETIN DATE: August 18, 2009 TSX Venture Tier 2 Company Effective at 6:00 a.m. PST, August 18, 2009, trading in the shares of the Company was halted at the request...