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What the pros are buying right now

You’ve probably read that Warren Buffet invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs and $3 billion in GE recently. However, both of those were invested in preferred stocks. They are more like loans with an interest of 10% rather than investment. In September, Buffet’s group bought Constellation Energy (CEG) for $4.7 billion or $26.50 per share. [...]

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My Investment Diary

Even in this shaky stock market, I regularly contribute to 401K, ROTH IRA and my taxable mutual fund acconut. However, I haven’t had any money to invest in stocks for the last few months. Early this week I received and sold my company’s stocks under the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). By the way, if [...]

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Value is hard to find

As I mentioned in my earlier post, I wanted to apply Benjamin Graham’s seven steps of valuing a company to look for some good values right now since stocks are cheap right now. The DJIA is down more than 5000 since it reached all-time high last year. I was hoping to find plenty of stocks.
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Valuing a company, Graham’s way

Since the stock market is down so much and lots of companies look cheap right now, I wanted to look at few good companies to invest for the long run. The problem is how to value a company in this shaky market. Therefore, I went back to The Intelligent Investor and read chapter 14, Stock [...]

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