August, 2007 Posts
Lowering Your Electric Bill Using Kill-a-watt
You may be asking yourself what saving money has to do with investing. Well, it has do do with the opportunity costs of money. Saving money on utilities is like an investment that has guaranteed returns. In some cases, there is no risk whatsoever. If you replace a bulb with a more energy efficient bulb [...]
Homes on Sale 50% Off
Video showing for sales signs in Temecula, California
The New InvestmentsDirect 2.0
The new InvestmentsDirect aims to provide the best articles that are relevant to the investor community while providing the best experience possible. Author commentary will be provided for newsworthy stories as much as possible. This means whenever possible news or articles will provide links to images, video or audio feeds. Stories will all be offered [...]
Countrywide borrows money from Banks to cover loans
This is in response to the changing housing market. Moodys estimates that Countrywide has enough liquidy to operate through 2008.Countrywide has also eliminated higher risk loans in favor of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans. Link to Article Author’s Commentary Many have said that the real estate bubble problem or “subprime mortgage problem” as the [...]
Review of Top Stock Screening Sites
Several years ago I used stockscreener.com which was then free. It was better than anything else out there and still is today. Now it is a division of Hoovers and it seems that they have killed the service. So now we will look for alternatives. Many of the sites I have seen offer stock screener [...]
U.S. banks tightening mortgage standards, Fed says
Loose lending standards for mortgages over the past several years had inflated the housing market, but now the tightening of those standards has led to the bankruptcy of several lenders and the insolvency of some hedge funds that had invested heavily in U.S. mortgages. Worries about further repercussions have hit global financial markets in recent weeks. [...]
Microsoft Losing Market Share in OS and Apps
Open source software is software that is freely available. It is called open source because the source code is open to change to anyone that wants to add something on or change it. The rise of open source mostly came as a result of the Internet an broadband adoption. Now programmers from around the world can unite an collaborate [...]