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Enter the Financial Frontier of Ignorance and Kiss Your Asset Classes Goodbye

In 1987 when I started as a "retail stock broker" there were hundreds of high quality “investment ideas” to show customers on a daily basis – literally hundreds. There were dozens of AAA rated fixed income products, many quality high yielding stocks, and pages of conservative, safe, AAA rated insured municipal bonds. Oh how things have changed.

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Dow 10,000 just the midpoint of high and low

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is approaching 10,000 as optimism sets in about the economy.

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Dow Jones Marks 9000 On Investor Confidence

Dow Jones Industrial reaches 9000, on the news of improved profits and house sales. Ford and The Labor Department on the opposite sides of the story.

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Buying When Everyone Else Says "Sell!"

Being a Contrarian can be very lonely. Therefore, all Great Investors find themselves very lonely as only contrarians become Great Investors. Jeremy Grantham has been lonely a very long time, but he is what I consider a Great Investor, along side Warren Buffet, Bill Gross and Julian Robertson.

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Investor loses everything after Opes Prime collapse

An investor who lost his life savings in the collapse of failed stockbroking group Opes Prime is angry that he was not told about the company's unusual business structure.

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Thornburg alters by-laws

Thornburg Mortgage Inc. has changed its by-laws to allow a single investor to buy up to $300 million of stock.

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Dendreon accelerates work at Provenge and heightens its stock rates

Dendreon Corp., a Seattle based biotechnology company, said U.S. health regulators approved its amended trial design of the late stage study of its Provenge cancer vaccine, accelerating the expected timing of the final study results by about one year, sending shares up 21 percent before the opening bell.

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Stocks Tumble Around Globe Following Fears of US Recession

Share prices on major exchanges in Asia and Europe fell sharply Monday, after Friday's deep decline on Wall Street increased fears that a recession may hit the United States.

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Pinetree Capital: Investing in an Investor

By Eric Pratt

Seldom a week passes without news of another investment by Pinetree Capital Ltd. (TSX:PNP) in an emerging resource or technology company. Pinetree has a lean corporate structure and visionary business model that makes it part investment fund, part investment bank.

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Wall Street Ready To Have A Weak Open

Intel's weak outlook is punishing not only the tech stocks, but also the entire US markets. While the stocks are poised to open weak, they have come out of their worst levels.

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QualityStocks Top Movers and Shakers

Black Dragon Resource Companies (BDGR), previously at $0.021 up 85% at $0.039 with 6,575,584 shares traded, was highlighted by OTC Picks, Penny Buster and OTC Stock Exchange. Black Dragon Resources announced that it has potentially secured $100,000,000 in financing from an un-named Joint Partner. The financing agreement was contingent on Black Dragon Resources ability to confirm its oil and gas reserves have a value of at least $2.7 billion dollars, through an audit that will be completed within the week.

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Stocks to Watch in 2008

eWorld Interactive says watch these stocks in 2008. Stocks to Watch: eWorld Interactive, Inc. (OTC BB:EWIN), Power Group, Ltd (OTCBB: IPWG), GameZnFlix, Inc. (OTC BB:GMFX) , AmeriChip International Inc. (OTC BB:ACII), HandHeld Entertainment Inc (Nasdaq: ZVUE)

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