1 hour ago

Portfolio Recovery Associates: the post-it note thesis

Portfolio Recovery Associates (PRAA) is essentially in the business of buying discharged receivables, bad debt, for much less than its face value, then attempting to collect on that debt. Right now, in the teeth of the housing bubble collapse and the rece...  

1 hour ago

GRMN: risk and reward, in qualitative terms

Garmin (GRMN) has plummeted from over $120 a share in October to the low $40's, and currently trades at 12 times last year's earnings, while nearly 18% of the float is sold short. Either something is very wrong with this respected tech innovator, or the s...  

15 hours ago

Naked shorting now improper?

I'd like some feedback on this WSJ.com snippet: "The federal crackdown on short selling is causing a scramble on Wall Street, with brokerage firms racing to implement new controls before the rules take effect on Monday. The unprecedented get-tough actio...  

15 hours ago

Riteaid RAD MSFT

I am new in here and was just wondering if Rite Aid would go up because of refinancing? I believe they also bought out Eckerds a little while ago. With the baby boomers coming in the senior citizens age wouldnt the drug market be going up?So why is ther...  

20 hours ago

STD: time to buy

Banco Satander is showing excellent results compared what we see with different commercial/investmen​t banks worldwide. It has won the best bank of the world title according to Euromoney and - plans future aggressive growth with its outstanding grand-fath...  

20 hours ago

Can Starbucks go any lower?

They are at the 52 week low. How much lower can the share drop? I think we will see a small bounce back following the earnings release tomorrow. Any thoughts?  

22 hours ago

THERMOENERGY must be watched: steal at these levels

Recently, TMEN.ob developed JOINT VENTURE with BABCOCK POWER. They are an energy and water company. Trump (Robert, Donald's older brother) owns TMEN. Insider ownership is 56%. Float is 14M The TIP's effort was significantly expedited by thre...  

23 hours ago

When to sit in cash

The hard thing about a bear market isn't watching my portfolio take successive haircuts. It's regretting that I don't have more capital to deploy. The time to sit in cash isn't when the financial system is melting down--it's during the even more frighteni...  

Yesterday at 11:39 ET

Looks like Oil might go up some more..

TEHRAN (AFP) -- Iran's oil minister confirmed on Saturday that the French energy giant Total SA (12027.FR) was out of a multi-billion dollar gas investment in the Islamic republic, the state broadcaster reported. "Total's recent move in withdrawal from p...  

Jul 18 at 1:29 ET

TXT: Could be a good time to buy

For all those interested in technical trading---check out TXT..you might/might not agree that this Conglomerate might be poised for a steady, if albeit slow rise....