Posted in Investing on Apr 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
On Friday morning I decided to enter in some trades that take advantage of the Microsoft/Yahoo deal drama that has been going on for a while. Microsoft set a deadline of Saturday April 26 (yesterday) for Yahoo to accept it’s unsolicited offer of $31 per share. I saw an opportunity to enter into an option [...]
Posted in Google, Investing on Apr 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Google surprised analysts today by reporting a 30% increase in net profit for the first quarter of 2008. The news boosted Google stock 17% in after hours trading to 525 per share.
Google was beaten down lately because of reports about decreased click through rates and the effect it would have on earnings. But, what many [...]
Posted in Economy, Investing on Mar 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Shares of Bear Stearns (BSC) took a dive today amid news of a $2 per share buyout offer from JP Morgan and a government bailout. I’m truly upset that the federal government has had to resort to bailing out institutions who made horrible investing decisions and lost billions of dollars. It just really burns me [...]
Posted in Investing on Feb 27th, 2008 No Comments »
The European Union sure does have it out for Microsoft. The EU has imposed a record setting fine against the world’s largest software maker in retaliation for what it considers unreasonable prices being charged to companies seeking to design software compatible with the Microsoft Windows Operating System.
Microsoft is trading down only slightly at the open, [...]
Posted in Investing on Feb 26th, 2008 No Comments »
RF Micro Devices, a stock I wrote about as a good buy about a month ago, has seen investment interest from a fund controlled by George Soros. The fund has announced a 5.15 percent stake in RF Micro today. It is unclear when the shares were accumulated and at what price, but it is certain [...]
Posted in Investing on Feb 15th, 2008 No Comments »
You know that the market is down when Warren Buffet begins to see opportunity around every corner. An announcement was made Thursday about Berkshire Hathaway’s purchase of a very large stake in Kraft Foods, making it the largest shareholder of the maker of many consumer staple food products.
The Kraft purchase is only one of the [...]
Posted in Google, Investing on Feb 9th, 2008 No Comments »
On Monday, Yahoo will be announcing that they are rejecting the unsolicited $44.6 Billion buyout offer they received from Microsoft earlier this month.
This is exactly the move I was hoping for. Depending on how traders take the news on Monday, Yahoo shares could climb if they believe Microsoft will make a counter-offer or they could [...]
Posted in Google, Investing on Feb 6th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve been watching the news relating to the Microsoft bid for Yahoo very closely and I think that an increased bid around $40-45 per share could be in the offing. I am considering entering a position in Yahoo for this very reason as it appears that there is very little worry of any antitrust issues [...]
Posted in Google, Investing on Feb 5th, 2008 1 Comment »
Google dipped below $500 per share on Monday and Tuesday before climbing back out of the doldrums Tuesday morning. Google is suffering from missing its earnings estimate and from the news of a potential Yahoo buyout.
Both of those events contributed to the plummeting stock price of Google and has made the price extremely attractive for [...]
Posted in Google, Investing on Feb 1st, 2008 2 Comments »
For the first time in Google’s three and a half year history, quarterly earnings missed analysts estimates. I saw the potential for this scenario during a post I made in January because of the program changes Google made that I feel would adversely affect profitability.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Google shares drop under $500 in [...]
