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Fidelity just slashed their commissions to $7.95 flat rate, and is now offering 25 ETFs commission free (I guess to compete with Schwab). http://personal.fidelity.com/products/trading/What_You_Can_Trade/WYCT_ETFs.shtml.cvsr Any comments on Fidelity as a brokerage?
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Jreedy88 posted:On another note, does anyone else feel like shorting AAPL these days? I'm thinking the sales numbers for the iPad will be abysmal.
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mcsuede posted:Does anyone know of a fund that focuses on solid domestic companies that pay dividends (JNJ, GE, etc.), and that doesn't have insane load/fees? ExxonMobil Corporation (XOM) 6.36% General Electric Company (GE) 3.30% J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) 3.13% AT&T, Inc. (T) 3.03% Bank of America Corporation (BAC) 2.78% Chevron Corporation (CVX) 2.68% Wells Fargo Company (WFC) 2.34% Pfizer Inc. (PFE) 2.12% Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS) 1.68% Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) 1.63% There are like a billion indexes that track large cap value/dividend stocks, plenty of different ones to choose from.
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Feb 8, 2010 02:33
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Dr. Jackal posted:Anyone else crying over VZ slowly bleeding down?
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ayekappy posted:Or the fact that FiOS would compliment a nationwide internet type government infrastructure plan the most. The problem with 4G though is its an area Verizon doesn't have quite as much of a technological edge (other than being first to release it and having much much larger national footprint, but both of those were going to be done without the governments money anyway), so it isn't like they would be the sole winner of the government's money bonanza like they would if it was going to be given to the best land line service.
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Apr 24, 2010 22:56
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The wildcard with Verizon too is what they end up doing with Vodafone about Verizon Wireless.
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Koirhor posted:Just an FYI on Verizon. Let's just say the company is trying to layoff 21,000 Union people. The current union contact allows them to layoff 9,000 but the company wants to do an additional 12k. The Unions have told Verizon if they take one person over the 9,000 then the entire workforce will go on strike.
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Apr 27, 2010 16:43
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MrBigglesworth posted:No, we are just puttering along, Greece shits the bed and then the market goes crazy. I just dont see the logic of Greece having problems to cause someone to go in and say, welp, better sell some of my holdings. Isn't most of Europe heavily invested in Greek bonds?
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Jacques LeVert posted:f it isn't debt contagion we're talking about, then at least we can all agree financial stupidity and reckless spending is contagious. Post more (here).
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lol I guess the government turned the hose on at 2:45.
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May 6, 2010 19:59
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I'm pissed because I had a conversation with my friend at like 11am today where I said I am worried that we are having multiple down days in a row, and that we might see the bottom fall out because of it. And here we are.
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unixbeard posted:anyone know why zerohedge is down?
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Built 4 Cuban Linux posted:It seems like they don't even know how this could have happened, let alone who actually caused it. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0624451020100507 I could post other site's analysis of it, but since everyone here seems to refuse to believe markets and all of their participants are anything but  there is no point.
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May 7, 2010 03:13
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ZH's main high frequency trading writeup today is a really good read as well.
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May 7, 2010 04:11
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You can buy it on eBay (seriously), and the premium isn't too crazy if you shop around.
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May 8, 2010 20:44
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Yeah but if there is ever a run on the physical metal you are going to wish you didn't own paper.
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Cheesemaster200 posted:Again, what are you going to do with physical metal? Trade it? Barter? I'm not trying to say gold is the greatest thing ever (I own none), but holding physical gold is just as ridiculous has holding paper. And I mentioned eBay, there is actually a healthy gold market on eBay if you ever wanted to trade the physical metal.
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greasyhands posted:Selling commissions on ebay/paypal are ~10%, if you really think you can make a trading platform out of that I'd like to see the results. It's not that holding physical gold is ridiculous, it's that there's a reason you only see WE TRADE GOLD on the front of pawn shops and gun shows, and not at banks. The market for physical metals for retail investors is basically a scam.
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May 10, 2010 20:54
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Dr. Eldarion posted:Holy crap, what just happened to TiVo? http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:TIVO http://preview.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive_en10&sid=aum3bPRe2F94
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May 14, 2010 16:08
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Doesn't Tivo actually derive a significant portion of its revenue from patent royalties? I seem to remember hearing about this when the patent case was first going on.
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WDC is driving me nuts.
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May 18, 2010 18:12
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Maybe the market thinks that computers are just a passing fad.
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May 18, 2010 18:29
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Not to mention the fundamentals of these stocks are absurd. About $12 of WDC's share price is literally cash, with only $400 million long term debt, and they are earning like $1.70 a share per quarter.
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May 18, 2010 20:37
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strwrsxprt posted:I'm an idiot who understands nothing about the market, but I own a decent amount of WDC. Do you mind explaining why those conditions are absurd? It also means that their P/E is a crazy low 6.5, whereas the S&P's P/E is about 20. Seagate is in a very similar situation, except they have much more debt on the books. Baddog posted:edit - I believe western digitals percent of the SSD market is much smaller than traditional drives, right?
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Oh no doubt, I've gone over 75% bonds in my retirement accounts. I think a terrible market correction is going to occur by years end. Still, WDC's movement though is puzzling regardless if it is a down day or not.
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May 18, 2010 23:54
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Also a pressure on housing is I feel there is an immense "shadow inventory" out there, as expressed in this Calculated Risk post. http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/05/mothballed-condos-offered-for-sale.html
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CMO is never going to sustain that 17% dividend. You do realize that at that rate the company will literally give its shareholders their entire current market cap in cash in under 6 years?
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fougera posted:WDC or STX? I love WDC, but look at an intraday chart of it over the past two or three weeks and tell me that isn't totally hosed. So much volatility...
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Christobevii3 posted:Whats everyones thoughts on Citigroup almost flash crashing again and being halted for the second time this week? It is moving tons of shares so its not a liquidity issue. I don't get how anyone could have even a shred of faith in the integrity of our markets right now. I am at the point where I wonder if me being 10% equities long is too much.
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Cost of Forever Stamp in April 2007: 39 cents Cost of proposed first class stamp: 46 cents return: 18% S&P April 5, 2007: 1443.76 S&P July 6, 2010: 1028.06 return: -28% abagofcheetos fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Jul 6, 2010 |
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Foma posted:Good luck finding someone who still buys stamps.
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Foma posted:My 82 shares of VZ have yielded 19 shares of ftr I which I am unsure what to do with. 17% yield makes it seem unstable 
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Tasty and Delicious posted:Not much you can do with 19 shares, I say hold it long since selling it loses a lot to commissions. Yeah but at the same time, if you lose even a few % on your shares you just paid your sales commission. If you like it, hold it. If you are unsure why you would keep it, sell it. It has been up a ton the past couple days, this would be the perfect opportunity to sell if you want out.
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The only people that make money off IPOs are the underwriters.
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A few months ago? How bout in 2002.
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Jul 15, 2010 00:12
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Like Forever stamps 
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Glad I sold a bunch of my MCD out yesterday at 71.43. Now I just wish I bought more VZ at 26.50 like I wanted to.
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HPQ seems like a compelling buy given the massive hit they just took. I read a pretty interesting article the other day involving the potential of wireless sensors for large industrial projects, of which HP has been very involved in developing. In the article was a quote comparing the sensors to the production of ink cartridges, both in terms of mass production and also profit margins. http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2009/oct-dec/cense.html That is a link I found in 2 seconds of Google searching about it. Good synergies too, because you need a massive server system to handle the data those sensors produce.
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lol WDC $24.71 share price. $12 per share cash. $6 EPS.
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Hobologist posted:GOONS!
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