My Comments on Finance Blogs and Conflicts of Interest

Here’s the comment I just left on Seeking Alpha’s post about financial blogs and potential conflicts of interest. There are some good points made by the commenters above so I’ll keep my comments real brief. I think that anybody who acts upon an investment/trade idea without doing their own analysis, in whatever form, is foolhardy. [...]

Atlanta Gas Shortages(?), Long Lines, Prices Ramping!

I’m sitting here listening to the Georgia Governor telling people to stay calm about the rising gas prices but I just came in from a short trip to the store and it’s getting hectic out there. I headed to the store at about 4:05 PM today and noticed that the station closest to my house [...]

Host America (CAFE): No agreement w/ Wal-Mart; CEO on admin leave

It’s simply amazing that a company could put out such a misleading press release in this day & age. CAFE finally made a statement about their release from July 12 that sent the stock soaring: Host America Corp. said Wednesday that while it believed there was an oral understanding between itself and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. [...]

Seeking Alpha on Finance Blogs and Conflicts of Interest

Seeking Alpha has a couple of important posts about blogs and conflicts of interest that I encourage all of you to read. In the first post David, the author, asks: With (often anonymous) blogs, how do I know what I’m reading is accurate? How do I know that the author isn’t trying to “pump and [...]

Watchlist for August 31, 2005

Well it’s Wednesday so we’ve got oil inventory data being released at 10:30. Seems like every week there’s more & more drama around these reports. So you know I won’t even be thinking of initiating any positions until 10:45 or so. Speaking of oil, Duru forwarded ths WSJ article to me — Rising Oil and [...]