May 2007 - Posts

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  The Top Five Investment Books Of All Time Monday, May 28, 2007 12:46 PM (541) We thought we'd provide our readers with a little light reading material for the upcoming summer months when many of you will be vacationing...

• 5705	Recreational soccer is big business in the UK - Is America next? Monday, May 28, 2007 11:27 AM (307) Earlier this year soccer player David Beckham announced that when his contract with Real Madrid expires in June, he’d begin a new $250...

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  Answers to our weekly finance quiz Monday, May 28, 2007 8:58 AM (334) Happy Monday morning, everybody. One of our loyal RYS readers, Dheenu Sivaligam, has suggested that we start posting the answers to our weekly Friday quiz on Monday morning, and we think this is a great idea. From now on, we’ll be leaving the answers as a comment on the quiz post, so if you want to...

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  Avenue – where America’s plus-size women shop Friday, May 25, 2007 11:01 AM (515) We’ve all heard the statistics about America’s ever worsening obesity problem. Yes, it’s true we are overweight and we do eat too much but we still need clothes to work and play in that make us look half flattering; a reality met head on by United Retail Group (

• 8033	Take our quiz and WIN A FREE T-SHIRT Friday, May 25, 2007 9:48 AM (300) It’s Friday and around here at Rock Your Stock we LOVE giving away free stuff on Fridays. But if you took our...

• 8497	Duvel is Dutch for good beer Thursday, May 24, 2007 1:37 PM (301) While I don’t drink as much beer as I once did I still like to have the occasional pint. When I do, I tend to order something unusual and more...

• 7490	The Top 10 things the investment industry doesn’t want you to know Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:41 AM (413) The crack team at Rock Your Stock put our heads together and came up with a list, in no particular order, of some of the little known truths...

• 5496	RYS Pick of the Day – Entertainment Properties Trust Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:23 PM (299) When I was six my grandfather retired from his job as President of Famous Players, the largest cinema chain in Canada. He spent his entire...

• 7589	RYS Pick of the Day – Cobra Electronics Corp. Tuesday, May 22, 2007 11:16 AM (322) Anyone who does a lot of highway driving might know about today’s pick. Cobra Electronics (

• 4911	Tired of high gas prices? Don't get mad, get even! Saturday, May 19, 2007 7:00 AM (255) As I was filling up my tank this morning on the way to work, I thought about gas prices and the rising cost of fuel. As my car slowly sucked...

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  Microsoft To Buy AQuantive For $6 Billion: does this mean the Yahoo! merger is off? Friday, May 18, 2007 1:19 PM (230) Microsoft is at the top of the financial news this morning by announcing it will buy online advertising firm aQuantive Inc. for a staggering $6 billion. The deal will see aQuantive receive $66.50 a share in cash, an amount 85 percent higher than the stock’s closing price yesterday. The offer dwarfs...

• 4949	RYS Pick of the Day – Bjorn Borg AB Friday, May 18, 2007 10:48 AM (240) Back in the mid to late 1970s, a tennis player from Sweden captivated the crowds at Wimbledon, winning five straight titles and nearly a sixth...

• 6790	Take Our Quiz and Become a Millionaire Friday, May 18, 2007 9:48 AM (303) Boy howdy do we have a great book to give away for this week’s Rock Your Stock finance news quiz. It’s called Secrets of Millionaire Moms:...

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  The Price of War: What Iraq is doing to – or for – your stock portfolio Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:46 PM (198) If you’re a shrewd investor with few or no scruples, chances are you beefed up your portfolio’s Halliburton shares right around Q1 of 2003. And why not? Anybody with even a modicum of market sense could tell that the Texas energy giant’s shares would rise like so many Kuwaiti gas fires from the Bush...

• 4127	RYS Pick of the Day – Retail Food Group Ltd. Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:01 PM (225) Today I’m headed down under to the land of the koala bear, Billabong, and Crocodile Dundee. Our pick is a growing baked goods franchise...

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  Business, journalism and the business of business journalism Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:45 PM (163) After reading the news yesterday, I was beginning to wonder if members of the Bancroft family were reconsidering their position on Rupert Murdoch’s $5-billion bid to take Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal off their hands. After all, yesterday was the day that Thomson, a Canadian financial...

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  Financial Wednesday Weekly Pick – SEI Investments helps financial service providers operate their businesses more effectively Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:20 PM (202) The financial services industry is neck high in paper work and it’s not getting any better. A Pennsylvania company helps make this nightmare disappear through outsourcing. SEI Investments (SEIC)...

• 3579	Tech Tuesday Weekly Pick – Get online fast with Website Pros Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:32 AM (198) Last October, before I joined Geosign, I set up my own blog using an internet provider where I live. Part of the yearly deal...

• 6486	Sports Monday Weekly Pick – Speedo is doing swimmingly Monday, May 14, 2007 11:34 AM (250) My niece is a competitive swimmer. One of the tools of the trade for her is the Speedo swimsuit. In late 2003, I suggested to my sister that since her daughter

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  Private equity isn’t the solution for Liz Clairborne Friday, May 11, 2007 2:57 PM (289) It seems to me that private equity is the elixir of the investment world. Got a problem with your business (publicly traded) and no short-term solution, sell it to a private equity firm who’ll shade you from those pesky shareholders who want returns now, not in five years. It’s a utopian thought but...

• 3817	Rock Your Stock Pick of the Day – Buckle up for the ride! Friday, May 11, 2007 10:39 AM (202) Today is fashion Friday and I was struggling to come up with a stock pick when I looked at the same store sales numbers for

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  Take our weekly quiz and win – free socks? Friday, May 11, 2007 9:55 AM (171) It’s time again for our finance news quiz, but to be honest we were struggling to find a prize to give away this week. Because Rock Your Stock is still in its infancy, the bean counters around here have not yet blessed us with a budget to order some cool swag to give out. Thankfully, a number of our...

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  Our Fruit Basket provides healthy returns (Part Two) Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:25 PM (178) Ok, this morning I wrote about the first five stocks in the Fruit Basket portfolio. Here are the remaining five. In the next few weeks, we’ll start showing readers how each of the stocks have performed since our launch April 10. Maui Land & Pineapple Co. (

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  Neeleman removed as JetBlue CEO Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:23 PM (201) Demotion or not, JetBlue founder David Neeleman has been booted out of the role of CEO and made a “non-executive chairman” following an embarrassing service disruption on Valentine’s Day. Reuters is reporting that President Dave Barger, 49, will replace Neeleman as CEO effective immediately. ...

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  Our Fruit Basket provides healthy returns (Part One) Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:23 PM (192) Today we cover the fourth and final Rock Your Stock featured portfolio. It’s called the fruit basket because each of the stocks in the portfolio either has a fruit in the name or is somehow related to fruit. While it’s meant to be funny, we believe each of the stocks chosen make good investments long-term....

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  Rock Your Stock Pick of the Day – C&C Group takes its cider global Thursday, May 10, 2007 6:00 AM (193) Thursday is my favorite day of the week here at Rock Your Stock because I get to blog about the food and beverage business, one that I have no trouble researching for companies to cover. In fact, in this instance I have very little difficulty going out there to do some fieldwork. The company I’ve picked...

• 2594	Rock Your Stock Pick of the Day – U.S. Global Investors Inc. Wednesday, May 09, 2007 1:54 PM (162) Two things got me thinking about mutual funds this morning. The first is a story I read in yesterday’s Globe...

• 5081	Cisco Inferno: Burning it up (or getting burned?) on the Wall Street dance floor Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:25 PM (186) Sigh. You really have to feel sympathy for Cisco Systems Inc. this morning. Just yesterday the company was pulling a John...

• 2900	Intuitive Surgical - Newsworthy Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:11 AM (183) In today’s online edition of Investors.com, they have a video...

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  Microsoft and Yahoo!: The merger that dare not speak its name Tuesday, May 08, 2007 2:45 PM (177) Call it a partnership. Call it a strategic alliance. Call it whatever you want. But word that Microsoft and Yahoo! are back at the table talking possible merger was the biggest financial story to come out of last week. This news fit nicely with the overall ‘blockbuster’ atmosphere going into the weekend...

• 2602	Guitar Center plays a wonderful tune Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:26 PM (166) Around here, we refer to Tuesdays as “Tech Tuesdays,” writing about stocks related in some way to technology.

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  Horseracing and Boxing – Saturday was a big day for the two sports - does anyone care? Monday, May 07, 2007 4:17 PM (160) On Saturday, two huge sporting events took place; the Kentucky Derby and the Oscar De La Hoya/Floyd Mayweather Jr. World Boxing Council super welterweight fight. Today, only hours after both events, does anyone care? The short answer to that question is no. Americans love spectacles and clearly both...

• 4672	Callaway is hot – that says golf is on the mend Monday, May 07, 2007 11:23 AM (140) Tiger Woods won the Wachovia Championship yesterday in impressive fashion, his third title of the year, putting him solidly in first...

• 4156	Richemont - Swiss for luxury Friday, May 04, 2007 3:29 PM (182) I don’t know if you’ve noticed lately, but the worlds

• 2576	Take our quiz – WIN A FREE BOOK Friday, May 04, 2007 9:30 AM (137) It’s time once again for our weekly finance news quiz. This week’s book is something special for all you entrepreneur...

• 4188	Both Paul Newman and McDonalds love Green Mountain Coffee - should you? Thursday, May 03, 2007 4:42 PM (207) I happened upon Berkshire Ruminations this afternoon, a blog written by Chris Kern,...

• 2565	Seneca Foods – do what your mom says and eat your veggies Thursday, May 03, 2007 3:12 PM (165) Chances are good that if you still listen to your mother and eat your veggies and they are of the canned variety, they were processed by Seneca Foods(SENEA). This New York-based company has...

• 2448	Life Partners - benefit now and pay later Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:11 AM (136) We all want to live forever. Unfortunately, none of us will be so lucky. I’m going to die some day, this I know,...

• 2928	The Qwest for better earnings has begun Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:40 AM (178) Qwest Communications International Inc.(Q)...