Archive for January, 2011

January 7, 2011 | In: Financial

AIB: All the Way to a Penny

Even in this fresh start of the year, where most financials are going up and breaking new highs on very high volume, AIB is determined to resist this upward trend, and continue its decline, all the way to a penny. The last time the stock saw a value above...

I have discussed, just over a month ago, the absurdity of the Google Groupon deal. I argued that it was not only absurd, but also stupid for Google to buy a coupon website for $6 billion. The potential deal was heavily criticized by Google's investors...

I'm heavily involved in project management, especially online; in fact, I received a season's greeting card from an online project management software company just today. So it comes as no surprise my interest in investing in project management firms, but...

Today I discovered that just owning a domain is a huge responsibility. Just owning the domain, let alone having a functional website on that domain. Here's the story, I bought this domain (I don't want to link to it directly in case it gets hacked another...

I remember meeting an Italian Canadian on the plane flying from Paris to Montreal nearly 3 years ago. Besides telling me that she was gluten intolerant (I never knew before I met her that some people are not able to eat bread or pasta, imagine being an...

Just because a stock is Irish it doesn't mean that we should think of it as a loser, even if it's an Irish bank stock. Ever since AIB started dropping below the $2 level back in August for known reasons, the market confidence in the Irish banking sector...

When buying stocks, I always try to separate between hype and the real stuff. I prefer to know if there's a reason why a stock goes up or down, or if the stock's movement is purely based on speculation (in other words, baseless). One of the most...

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