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Nowadays, every stock seems to be trading not based on their fundamentals, but based on the fear that the economy will sink into a depression. If indeed this fear proves to be true, then buying stocks now would be a mistake. In the Great Depression of the 1930s, US GDP shrunk by 27%, pushing the [...]

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Hank Paulson’s refusal to rescue Lehman has been a rude shock to bond holders. Until last Sunday, the main losers in the financial crisis has been equity holders, while bond holders have seen their assets protected by the government. As a result, Treasury yields plunged to new lows on Monday as bond investors fled bank [...]

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Recently, the technology component of my portfolio has reached 15-20%, invested in companies with dominant market shares and minimal debt (DELL, INTC, NVDA and CYMI). The entire tech sector has been in slump in recent months due to a combination of the saturation of the desktop market in the US, and the flop of Windows [...]

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An article in the New York Times says that another blow to the US economy is about to come in the form of reduced state and city government spending for the coming fiscal year beginning July 1st 2008. Apparently, state and city spending makes up $1.8 trillion in the $14 trillion US economy, and they [...]

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I have recently finished the construction of my portfolio, with an aim of holding 10 stocks in diversified sectors. I had sought to build a value-oriented portfolio with moderate concentration. Today, I decided to take a look at how the portfolio and its various sectors are doing.
As a whole, the portfolio is slightly up over [...]

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