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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...

One of the very cool features that Google added a few months ago is Google Instant, which, although I really hated when I first used it, now I'm addicted to it (OK, addicted is not the word, but I like it a lot!), and I feel now that searching the old way...

American Markets have been beaten to death for the last couple of years. Many US listed stocks are currently being traded at ridiculously cheap prices as investors fled stocks to safe havens such as treasuries. In the beginning of 2010, however, some...

December 23, 2010 | In: Opinion

The Year End Rally

I bought FAZ a few months ago when it was at $13, it is currently trading at trading at $9.64. I admit, I lost money, a lot of money on this stock. I still haven't sold it and perhaps I won't sell it unless I sell all my financials. For me, FAZ is a hedge...

There are many Chinese Stocks listed in the US market nowadays. In fact, there are too many! Investors, especially day traders, apparently make a decent amount of money with these stocks, usually betting on an upward trend. But, we all know that the...

I have watched both YOKU and DANG stocks in the past week, when they started trading last Wednesday. In 3 trading days, YOKU was up over 42% (at one point on Friday, YOKU touched $50 and thus was up almost 100%, I feel sad for those who bought at this...

I "reported" before the market open that SIRI jumped considerably in the pre-market. Well at that time I didn't know why, but now I do. It's because of this. Yes, Howard Stern, in all his magnificence, decided to stay with Sirius XM radio. I have a few...

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