The relationship between gold and platinum has been a tenuous one. When things got really bad in 2008 platinum lost its longstanding premium to the shiny yellow stuff. The market is far smaller and its industrial uses and consumer uses vary. The SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) is the most liquid of the ETF products [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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In Defense of H-P (HPQ)
Aug 10
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) had the most active trading day in more than a decade on Monday with some 199 million shares traded by the 4:00 PM Closing bell. The drop from Mark Hurd’s resignation (a.k.a. firing) has been countered today by at least one firm out defending the value of H-P. Morningstar has defended [[ This is a content summary only
Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) might be one the most investors of all-time and he may have recruited 34 billionaires to donate up to half of their wealth. New reports and new questions are out now about just how the newly passed financial regulations will affect that casino-esque strategy Buffett [[ This is a content summary only
Apple iPhone 4 vs. iPhone 3GS ChangeWave Survey Shows What iPhone 4 Owners Really Think About Their New Smart Phones By Paul Carton, Jean Crumrine and Mike Wrobel The iPhone 4 launched in late June and was initially heralded as one of the most successful product releases in Apple’s history. But within days the firestorm [[ This is a content summary only.
Foreclosures and a buyer’s strike may be the most visible enemies of a recovery in the housing market. Vacancy rates in homes and apartments could be just as severe a drag
The Labor Department announced the most recent statistics on jobless claims. The figures confirm information from ADP and Challenger Gray.
Many stocks on the move for day trader and active trader alerts early this Thursday morning. Some are earnings and guidance, some are not. Today’s big movers are Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARNA), Dendreon Corp. (NASDAQ: DNDN), Isle of Capri Casinos Inc.
Hulu, the premium internet content service, is about to charge customers for access to certain TV shows and movies, perhaps the most important experiment ever to test whether consumers are willing to pay for full-length professionally produced video sent to their PCs. Data from Comscore showed that in May, Hulu delivered 1.1 billion streams, second [[ This is a content summary only
The effects of high unemployment, a troubled housing market, and households which remain leveraged at a relative high level have pushed consumer confidence back to levels comparable to mid-2009 levels.
ADR investors have probably made money this year only if they were writing call options or if they were shorting the stocks. The added currency component has greatly magnified the losses on paper here, and the bulk of the losers are in Europe. We wanted to see which ones were down the most due to [[ This is a content summary only.
