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American Apparel CEO buys company stock	Filed under: Management, InsidersShares of American Apparel (AMEX: APP) have been poor performers since the company went public through a special-purpose acquisition vehicle, even though the company's same-store sales numbers have been incredibly impressive.The company's shares have rebounded recently following the announcement of a major investment by Lion Capital. Now CEO Dov Charney is making his first trades in his company's stock since it went public and guess what? He's buying: 855,000 sha...	March 25, 2009
Genentech Causes Flurry of ETF Buying (DNA, BBH, XBI, IBB)	There is a hidden twist in the increased merger price that Genentech Inc. (NYSE: DNA). Sure, Genentech shares spiked huge on the news. But what is interesting here is that the BIOTECH ETF’s which track the sector are spiking on the news: Biotech HOLDRs (AMEX: BBH) is up 3.8% at $62.45 on 344,000 shares at 1:39 PM EST (Avg. Volume is 102,000). Keep in mind that HOLDRs can only be traded in 100 share blocks. Genentech is or was 40% of this ETF, so the component weighting has to chan...	March 06, 2009
Closing Bell: Dow up; Bernanke must have bought stocks; JPM, HD, MRVL, AIG, AXP	If you can believe it, finally a rally. The death of consumer confidence was trumped by a piece of Ben Bernanke testimony which took away at least an immediate rush into nationalism off the table. It has been a while since the Fed Head has run the market, and the comments were finite enough and open enough that you'd think he bought stocks. This led most of the financials higher, but it was still more in selective names. Here are today's unofficial closing bell levels:Dow 7,350.86 +236.08 (3.3...	February 24, 2009
Weekend Reading From Value Investing News	Kick off the weekend with these top stories submitted at Value Investing News this week: Whirlpool: Drowning In Pension Obligations! Company Assessment, Checklist and Spider Graphs Reward-Risk or Risk-Reward? AMEX Analysis by Contrarian Edge Ten Dividend Stocks With 50+ Years of Consecutive Increases Open Source Investing Mohnish Pabrai Files 13F-HR Ebay’s Margins and Moat Warren Buffet’s Luxury Dividends at Tiffany’s Book Review: The Interpretation Of Financial Statements By...	February 20, 2009
A defensive investment: Biotechnology ETFs	Filed under: Mutual funds, Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Genentech Inc (DNA), ETF InvestingOne of the buzzwords that is currently in vogue in the investment community is biotechnology. This is a broad-based field that covers technological applications in any biological system, meaning humans, animals, agriculture, and medicines. This is a booming science and the investment field offers many opportunities for wealth accumulation. If you don't want to spend countless hours trying to understand not j...	February 07, 2009
Go Green with Low Cost ETF Funds: EVX	Filed under: ETF InvestingThe color for this age is definitely green as eco-consciousness is sweeping the country. For those of you who are worried about the environment and doing your share to save this planet in the future, how about letting the green movement make you earn more green.Making the right choices for the environment seems to finally have taken hold and with the new Obama administration it should only pick up speed. If you see the value in investing in environmental services you ca...	January 23, 2009
Top Stock Picks '09: Graham (GHM)	Filed under: Newsletters, Commodities, Oil, Stocks to Buy, Green Stocks, Best Stocks for 2009This post is part of a special annual report -- Top Stock Picks '09 -- in which TheStockAdvisors.com asked 75 leading newsletter advisors to select their favorite investment for the new year. "Graham (AMEX: GHM), our top pick for 2009, is perfectly positioned to provide high tech equipment to the coming green tech revolution," says technology specialist Tom Vass in Wall Street Window. "Graham is a gl...	January 09, 2009
Ben Graham's "Net Current Asset Value"	From Tweedy -Browne.. ASSETS BOUGHT CHEAP BENJAMIN GRAHAM’S NET CURRENT ASSET VALUE STOCK SELECTION CRITERION The net current asset value approach is the oldest approach to investment in groups of securities with common selection characteristics of which we are aware. Benjamin Graham developed and tested this criterion between 1930 and 1932. The net current assets investment selection criterion calls for thepurchase of stocks which are priced at 66% or less of a company's underlying current as...	January 05, 2009
Top Stock Picks '09: iShares Emerging Markets (EEM)	Filed under: International markets, Brazil, Russia, Newsletters, Mutual funds, ETF Investing, Eastern Europe, Stocks to Buy, Best Stocks for 2009This post is part of a special annual report -- Top Stock Picks '09 -- in which TheStockAdvisors.com asked 75 leading newsletter advisors to select their favorite investment for the new year. International investing expert Nicholas Vardy looks to the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index (AMEX: EEM) as his favorite investment idea for 2009. In his Glo...	January 04, 2009
Auction Rate Securities: $200 billion unfrozen, $135 billion to go	Filed under: Good news, Financial CrisisAlthough it's still a far bigger scam than Bernie Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme, it has gotten a relatively tiny amount of attention. I don't know why but I suspect it's because the victims of the $330 billion Auction Rate Securities (ARS) swindle -- in which money invested in supposedly cash-like investments in government bonds whose rates reset in weekly auctions -- are not bold-faced names like Kevin Bacon and Steven Spielberg. Nevertheless, when t...	December 31, 2008

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