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Bailout or Buyout? Fannie and Freddie

From my MSN TopStocks post:

5:45 on a Friday night. Somehow I knew something was in the air. The end of day upward move for a market that should have traded lower made no sense. It appears that now, according to the WSJ, there is talk about a backstop for Fannie...

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Why I am short MasterCard

My latest MSN Strategy Lab Journal Update: Lately there has been a generally accepted theory that credit card issuers with exposure to loan losses will have great difficulty in this slowing economy, while card companies that simply earn money from transactions will thrive.

That’s incorrect.

The latter group contains two well-known companies,...

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Google Chrome: Direct Attack on Microsoft

I wrote an overview today of what the release of Google’s Chrome browser may mean. Here is the ecerpt that can be also found on MSN Money:

The browser war just heated up. Actually, it has now gone nuclear. It was one thing when open-source Mozilla had a “cute” idea for...

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Natural Gas: Oversold and we are buying

* Recently, we bought U.S. Natural Gas Fund (UNG) for The Disciplined Investor Managed Growth Strategy portfolios…

Below is an interesting graphic that shows the effect on energy commodities by the legislation that closed the Enron Loophole. Even though there has been a great deal of discussion concerning the supply and...

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Strategy Lab: Screening for Losers

Note: All MSN Strategy Lab entries are not to be considered a recommendation. These are notes/orders that were sent in for the MSN Strategy Lab editors for the use with my specific contest portfolio.

* Buy 300 shares of United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG) with a limit of $40 and...

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