Federal Reserve 2006 Meeting Dates

With so much attention surrounding Ben Bernanke and interest rates, I figured it would be nice to list up the meeting dates that already have happened in 06 and the federal reserve board meeting dates that are still to come. Out of the 12 month in a year, 8 month typically have meetings. January 31st, [...]

About Stock Guru Jim Cramer

I found this over at CNBC's website. " Jim Cramer is markets commentator for TheStreet.com, the multimedia Web site he founded. He's also host of the daily radio program "RealMoney with Cramer" and columnist for New York magazine. He's also a CNBC markets commentator. After graduating from Harvard, Cramer became a print reporter. He later [...]

Online Broker Consolidation, Banking, and Security

Last past week this series has taken us from introducing the big three online brokers to the factors most considered when choosing a broker and how they are or aren't really all that important. I ended the last post by asking where brokers are going as an industry and what are the current trends now? [...]

Investor Lingo, "Squeeze"

I figured this would be a good term to use for today's stock market lingo. Now, before I get into what a "squeeze" is I just want to clarify that I am not referring to a short squeeze (I am saving it for a rainy day!). When we apply "squeeze" to a company, we apply [...]

New Position in Coke (KO) Stock

I have been 100% cash since May 10th, 2006 in not only my personal accounts, but also my clients accounts as well (Diagram here of the Nasdaq chart when I went 100% Cash). Just this past Friday though I decided to take a small 200 share position in Coca-Cola (KO) as the stock got upgraded [...]