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Happy 115th Birthday, Dow Jones Industrial Average!
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJIA) was born 115 years ago on May 26, 1896. To give you an idea of how long the Dow has been around, its birth is the mid-way point between the surrender of General...
View ArticleIBM’s Misguided Share Repurchase
I think these things are specifically done to annoy me. IBM ($IBM) has been doing very well lately. The stock recently made an all-time high. The company just reported earnings that beat expectations...
View ArticleMore Troubles From Europe
The stock market is down slightly this morning on more concerns from Europe that Mario Monti, the interim Prime Minister of Italy, is trying to form a government. The government held a bond auction...
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IBM Vs. Microsoft
Here’s a look at IBM’s ($IBM) stock compared with Microsoft’s ($MSFT). This is a race that hasn’t gone the way many people would have thought. If you had asked most experts on December 31, 1999, which...
View ArticleWorld’s Simplest Stock Valuation Measure
Here’s the world simplest stock valuation measure: Growth Rate/2 + 8 = PE Ratio Let me emphasize that this is simply a quick-and-dirty valuation tool and it shouldn’t be used as a precise measure of a...
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CWS Market Review – January 17, 2014
“It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.” – Owen D. Young Earnings season is finally here. We’ve already had one good earnings report...
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CWS Market Review – January 24, 2014
“Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.” – JM Keynes The stock market has been getting bumped around lately, and it hasn’t had much direction at all. Since December 23rd, the...
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CWS Market Review – April 11, 2014
“Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.” – Benjamin Graham That’s so true. I’ve always thought that if things didn’t work out for Mr. Spock...
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CWS Market Review – October 24, 2014
“Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.” – Benjamin Graham In last week’s CWS Market Review, I said I thought the market’s panic had reached a peak last Wednesday, and so far, that seems to be the...
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