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China Restricts Online Game Industry
Protectionism is alive and well and the Chinese government is tightening pressure on foreign investment. Most recently the country’s lucrative online gaming industry is seeing tougher regulations...
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Carnival of Financial Planning
This week ZachStocks hosts the 112th edition of the Carnival of Financial Planning, the best personal financial planning and personal investment articles this week from personal financial blogs....
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IPO’s Offer Mixed Bag of Results
The market melt-down caused a significant decline in the number of IPO transactions over the past two years. While a typical year used to include more than 200 major offerings, there were less than 50...
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Fed Maintaints Emergency Rate While Saying “All is Well”
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) concluded its two day meeting yesterday with their customary announcement at 2:15 PM. The statement concluded (as everyone expected) that the Fed would leave...
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Loans to Congress – The Untold Debt Story
What if I walked up to you this afternoon and asked you personally for a loan? I know, we probably haven’t met and already you are uncomfortable with my overt start to our conversation. But let’s...
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Black Friday Indeed
Today is traditionally known as “Black Friday” in the retail industry for a number of reasons. Traditionally, it was the day after Thanksgiving when many retailers actually crossed into the black,...
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Banking in 2010 – At Risk If You Do, More Risk If You Don’t
It’s not easy being a bank these days. Oh sure, it’s nice to still be alive. After all, last year at this time it was uncertain exactly how many financial institutions were actually going to stay in...
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Four Stocks for the New Year (A 2009 Recap)
Note: This is a recap of performance for the stocks picked at the beginning of 2009. Picks for 2010 will be posted January first. To paraphrase a hedge fund manager that I follow closely, “Nothing has...
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Leveraged ETFs – Meet Leveraged Mutual Funds
In today’s uncertain market, investors are looking for a wider variety of tools to help them capture returns and protect their investment capital. One of the most powerful (and sometimes dangerous)...
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Recovering Editor, Deteriorating Markets
The last few weeks have been challenging for the markets as trend lines are being broken, and many speculative issues are reversing to give up recent gains. After falling 3.7% in January, the S&P...
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Consumer Confidence Pressures Rebound
Yesterday, the market dealt a disturbing blow to frustrated bulls who were riding the recent rebound in equities. Before the market opened, futures were a bit weak after a report showed German...
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Resurging IPO Market Adds Liquidity for Businesses and Owners
As the market trends higher and investors gain more confidence, business owners and private equity firms are increasingly tapping into the available market liquidity. The opportunity at this point is...
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2010 ZachStocks Recommendations – Q1 Update
At the beginning of the year I entered “round two” of a friendly stock competition with a few other financial websites. The rules were simple: Pick four stocks or ETFs which should do well in 2010....
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Strategic Defaults Fuel Spending
The consumer is dead… Long live the consumer! We’ve faced some very bipolar news on the US consumer over the last two years. With the unprecedented turmoil in the markets, a real estate market that...
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Value Investing Versus Technical Trading
This week the ZachStocks Newsletter portfolio was stopped out of a position in Zumiez Inc. (ZUMZ). Although the position initially showed a profit, a monthly sales report followed by a Wall Street...
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Why The Market Won’t Trade Straight Down From Here
Financial markets are facing extreme selling today after Goldman Sachs (GS) was charged with fraud by the SEC for marketing debt products which were essentially designed to fail. According to the...
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Three Industries for Building Short Positions
The SEC’s suit against Goldman Sachs on Friday brought an entirely different tone to equities markets. In an environment where investment assets have become overly correlated, many investors have...
View ArticleA Season of “Worsts”
According to Bespoke, Tuesday’s market action was the second worst start to June in the last 50 years. Only the first trading day of June 2002 was worse with a decline of 2.48%. Below we highlight all...
View ArticleUS Unemployment Claims Drop
This morning’s unemployment report is being viewed as a positive data point with the number of initial claims dropping by 10,000. However, with the total adjusted number checking in at 453,000, a 10k...
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Bernanke’s Comments on Unemployment
For any remaining employment optimists, the comments out of Washington from Ben Bernanke are certainly troubling. Last night the Federal Reserve Chairman sat down with Sam Donaldson (ABC) to discuss...
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