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Stockerblog.com Exclusive: Interview with Ken Fisher – Part 5	Debt Laden Stocks versus Debt Free StocksStockerblog.com had the pleasure of recently interviewing Ken Fisher, head of the $30 billion Fisher Asset Management, a very long time Forbes columnist, and author of the books Super Stocks, The Wall Street Waltz, 100 Minds That Made the Market, and The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don't. He is also coming out with a new book in the Fall, The Ten Roads to Riches: The Way the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!), p...	September 02, 2008
Stockerblog.com Exclusive: Interview with Ken Fisher – Part 3	How Ken Fisher's Investing Style Differs from Jim Cramer, Bill Gates, and Warren BuffettStockerblog.com had the pleasure of recently interviewing Ken Fisher, head of the $30 billion Fisher Asset Management, a very long time Forbes columnist, and author of the books Super Stocks, The Wall Street Waltz, 100 Minds That Made the Market, and The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don't. He is also coming out with a new book in the Fall, The Ten Roads to Riches: The Way ...	August 28, 2008
Earnings highlights: The Q2 crunch continues	Filed under: Earnings reports, Yahoo! (YHOO), Apple Inc (AAPL), Pfizer (PFE), PepsiCo (PEP), Amazon.com (AMZN), Ford Motor (F), McDonald's (MCD), Caterpillar (CAT), American Express (AXP), Bank of America (BAC), Boeing Co (BA), Hershey Co (HSY), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Wachovia Corp (WB), Washington Mutual (WM), Merck and Co (MRK), UAL Corp (UAUA), Texas Instruments (TXN), Crocs Inc (CROX)Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: Amazon.com Inc. ...	July 26, 2008
Second Quarter Earnings Season: Biggest Winners and Losers	Below we highlight the Dow 30 stocks that have reported earnings this season along with the one-day change in response to their reports. As shown, 13 of the 20 Dow stocks that have reported went up in reaction to earnings, with JPM going up the most at 13.5%. JPM is followed by Citi, UTX, PFE, T and BAC. MRK got... ...	July 25, 2008
Jim Cramer’s Am I Diversifed	The first caller had the following stocks: Altria (MO), Dow Chemical (DOW), Alcoa (AA), Excelon (EXC) and McDonald’s (MCD). Cramer said this is a great portfolio and he owns Altria and McDonald’s for his charitable trust. The second caller had long positions in these stocks: IBM (IBM), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Bristol Myers-Squibb (BMY), Coca-Cola (KO) and Colgate-Palmolive (CL). Cramer said this portfolio is drug heavy. He said sell Bristol and buy a oil or financial company. Th...	July 23, 2008
Just What the Doctor Ordered: Comparing the Pharma ETFs	click to enlarge The top four holdings in the Pharma HOLDRs (PPH) account for over 60% of the 21 components and include Johnson & Johnson (JNJ – 25.8%), Pfizer (PFE – 15.6%), Abbott Labs (ABT – 11.8%), and Merck (MRK – 10%). However, this is by far the most popular pharmaceutical exchange-traded fund [ETF] with net assets of $1.7 billion and an average daily trading volume of over 800,000 shares and it carries the lowest price-to-earnings [PE] multiple (12.5)....	July 23, 2008
Fast Money Recap	Word On The Street WORD VIDEO HERE Apple Talk The traders discussed some of the action in the technology space. Najarian explained that margins are going down which could impact the bottom line. However, he thinks the new iPhone will boost sales for the Mac, so he’s bullish on Apple. Gene Munster said if Apple lowers the price of their products then the Street number will go up and the stock will go up. Macke said he would take the other side of that trade. Pharma Trade Lehman Brothers ph...	July 22, 2008
Merck Visits The Proctologist (MRK)	Merck & Co. (NYSE: MRK) posted earnings that look pretty good on the surface. The problem is that the surface is about the only thing that looked appealing for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...	July 21, 2008
OPTIONS VOLUME SURGE: Merck & Schering-Plough (MRK, SGP)	Based upon the mixed to very cautious data on Merck & Co. (NYSE: MRK) and Schering-Plough (NYSE: SGP) study results today. Traders have now almost triple the normal volume in SGP and almost a full day’s trading volume in MRK. But the call options and put options activity for the current month data is starting to see major volume (as of 2:04 PM EST): MRK OPTION/Strike Volume OpInt AUG08 $35.00 CALL 3,527 2,074 AUG08 $37.50 CALL 17,837 16,345 AUG08...	July 21, 2008
The week in preview: More earnings crunch expectations	Filed under: Earnings reports, ForecastsWas the optimism observed in last week's preview post rewarded? Well, as it turned out there were few negative surprises from the companies listed there, really just Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) and narrow misses from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT). Again this week, in a list of earnings expectations for some prominent companies in a variety of sectors, we see an apparent optimism. That is, analysts are anticipati...	July 20, 2008

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