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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
VOLUME SURGE: Killing Financials Selling Stock	This morning we are seeing two key financiall stocks getting hacked despite the global rate cuts. Bank of America (BAC) is getting hit hard after pricing 455 million shares at $22.00. That was alreadu a sharp discount and after a massive market tank. MetLife (MET) is also getting hacked this morning after it pre-announced lower than expected earnings. It is also selling 75 million shares to boost liquidity and shore up assets. Financial firms need to start considering more than just dilution...	October 08, 2008
The Value of Being Approximately Right	Buffett said something to the effect of: “I would rather be approximately right than precisely wrong.” Everyone should agree with that maxim, but in the business world, many processes don’t work that way. Take auditing as an example. I’ve only experienced it as an actuary working in financial reporting, and it amazed me to see the detail work that they went through of checking cash flows (which should be done — how else do we detect fraud?), but with little to n...	August 16, 2008
Earnings highlights: Exxon, Starbucks, Viacom, Comcast, Sirius, Kraft and others	Filed under: Earnings reports, Starbucks (SBUX), Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI), Viacom (VIA), IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI), Aetna Inc (AET), Altria Group (MO), Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA), Corning Inc (GLW), Nucor Corp (NUE), Valero Energy (VLO), Kraft Foods'A' (KFT), Garmin Ltd (GRMN)Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) net income rose on membership growth and a hike in premium rates. Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) beat...	August 02, 2008
Not All Financials are Poision	I am overweight financials, but I don’t own any banks, or entities where the primary business is credit risk. I own a bunch of insurers, because they are cheap. The first one to report came Monday after the close, Reinsurance Group of America. They beat handily on both earnings and revenues. They are the only pure play life reinsurer remaining. Competition is reduced because Scottish Re is for all practical purposes dead. They make their money primarily off of mortality, chargi...	July 22, 2008
Jim Cramer’s Lightning Round	Bullish Ferrellgas Partners (FGP), Energy Conversion Devices (ENER), AT&T (T), MetLife (MET) and Marathon Oil (MRO). Bearish Sonic Corp (SONC). Join the fastest growing community of small cap investors at Stockhideout.com...	July 17, 2008
Recent Portfolio Moves	Selling 70% of my National Atlantic stake freed up cash, and I deployed half of that today in a variety of rebalancing trades. Today I bought some Jones Apparel, Valero Energy, Hartford Financial Services, and OfficeMax. I sold some RGA to buy some MetLife, in order to get cheaper RGA. Today’s actions brought cash in the portfolio from 14% to 11%. It’s a good time to be adding to positions in a modest way. If the market declines further, I will continue to slowly reduce cash ...	June 21, 2008
Jim Cramer's Stop Trading	Cramer advised investors to use caution when buying insurance stocks on Wednesday's CNBC Stop Trading! TV show. Cramer said he likes the property and casualty insurers but he would avoid the bond insurers at all costs. He said buy names like Chubb (CB), Travelers (TRV), Metlife (MET) and Prudential (PRU) but avoid American International Group (AIG) and stay away from Allstate (ALL) because of regulation issues. Moving on to commodity stocks, Cramer said buy Freeport-McMoRan (FCX). He mentioned t...	April 23, 2008
Analyst upgrades: AXP, MET, BK, NYX, PSUN and NVS	Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, American Express (AXP), Novartis AG ADS (NVS), Bank of New York (BK), NYSE Euronext (NYX)MOST NOTEWORTHY: The Brokers and Asset Managers sector, Pacific Sunwear and Metabasis Therapeutics were today's noteworthy upgrades: Goldman upgraded the Brokers and Asset Management sector to Attractive from Neutral as they believe an inflection point has been reached for stocks with minimal credit exposure, or where exposure is marked t...	April 08, 2008
NTY: Too Early to Buy NBTY	This article is a reprint of my March 4, 2008 RealMoney column When I started looking at NBTY (NTY) when it showed up on one of my screens recently, I realized a good chunk of my typical Whole Foods (WFMI) bill was going to their products. NBTY makes vitamins, sport supplements and other products under the brand names Nature’s Bounty, Vitamin World, Puritan’s Pride, Holland & Barrett, Rexall, Osteo-Bi-Flex, Flex-a-min, Knox, Sundown, MET-Rx, WORLDWIDE Sport Nutrition, American He...	March 11, 2008
Jim Cramer's Stop Trading	Prudential Financial Inc. (PRU) was called a buy on Stop Trading. They are now cheap enough to buy after missing the quarter. Giving up after one quarter does not make sense, and MetLife Inc. (MET) surged today. American International Group Inc. (AIG) fell as well as there maybe too many things going on here. Reiterating PRU is down too much and is too conservative along with not too bad a quarter to be ignored....	February 07, 2008

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