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Articles written in May, 2012
With the S&P 500 index down roughly 7.5% for the month, it’s a perfect time to take a break from all the (investing) fuss and re-evaluate our fundamentals. The best way to do that would be to pick up your favorite investing book and brush up on the basics. One of my favorites is the timeless classic, One Up On Wall Street :...
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Nowadays, almost everything is available on the internet. You can buy or sell stuff online, talk to people instantaneously, chat, watch videos, read the news, research your homework, play games, etc. One of the most important things that the internet revolutionized is the speed (and cost) by which information travels. Fast and...
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In a way, the online retailing space is like the folkloric feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys. On one side, there’s Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), the world’s highest grossing e-commerce company that generated nearly $50 billion in revenue last year. AMZN is a favorite of many investors, as its dominant market position...
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As one of the largest upstream oil companies in the United States, ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) has been a good investment since the recession, returning nearly 50 percent. In this time period, the company has spun off its downstream business into Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX), and unlike most breakups, this one was for the best. Much...
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Of course you know who Steve Jobs is. He’s the super-famous CEO who led Apple Inc. (AAPL) to its tremendous success by coming up with the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. And by the way, his salary as CEO is $1 a year. Yes, you read that right, one dollar a year. You may be thinking he’s nuts, but there’s actually more to his...
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