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Charlie Sheen in Wallstreet said “Life comes down to a few moments, and this is one of them” today the Dow did something funny, it dropped 200 points, and the only thing i can think is buy!

Very rarely do we get opportunities like this, now is the time to buy, before Dow 15,000.

Our calls in the past have been right on the mark, so take this advice and now is the time to buy.

The advantage of investing in the US for anyone outside is that the US dollar has been falling to all other currencies so right now it’s cheap to buy in the US, also with the current administration and the leaning toward a democratic leader in the next election, these are signs that the US dollar will be increasing over the next 4-6years which will magnify returns.

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I read an interesting article by Robert Kiyosaki, If you do know who Robert is he is the super star author that others want to be like, it’s been on the New York times best seller list for over 5 years, selling millions and millions of copies.

When Robert speaks people listen, that’s why i found this article interesting. Robert is prediciting that the market is slowly crashing.

On Feb. 27 of this year, a 9 percent market sell-off in China sent ripples of fear through stocks markets across the world. In the United States, the Dow’s one-day plunge of 416 points was the steepest decline since the market opened after Sept. 11, 2001.

So the question is: Should stock investors be worried? As you might expect, some say yes and some say no.

Robert thinks this is a sign of things to come, while i don’t disagree i don’t necessarily see this as the final end all and be all. The market has had a big run up from late 2006 to early 2007 and there was a lot of money made, thus equaling smart investors were profit taking, and even smarter ones were shorting the market.

Robert also says

To get a truer picture of comparative values, compare the Dow to the price of gold. When the purchasing power of gold is compared to the purchasing power of the Dow, the Dow appears to be crashing.

That means the average investor will need at least a 15 percent annual return on their stocks or mutual funds just to stay ahead of the U.S. dollar’s purchasing power erosion — that is, just to break even.

In my earlier Yahoo! Finance columns, I used history to forecast the future by comparing the dollar to gold and oil over a 10-year period. Here’s the data:

1996

2006

Percent Increase

Table updated 3/21/07.

Table updated 3/21/07.

It is important to note that Robert does have significant positions in both Oil and Gold, but he has disclosed this in previous articles as well.

Overall this article raises a lot of issues, and investors should be concerned for the long term, but for the next 1-3 years the market is still heading up.

Enjoy the ride.

After yesterday’s sell off the markets are starting to bounce back, the Dow is up 90+ point the NASDAQ is up 18+ point and the S&P is up 12+ points.

China is also up today in international markets, but you have to remember there is most likely going to be another couple of days of selling, the market doesn’t so quickly forget about a sell-off like it had on Tuesday.

So either tomorrow or the next week or two look for another significant move down, as the market corrects itself. This is going to be a good opportunity to buy for the long term as well. After the correction here comes Dow 15,000 Woo Hoo!

Is it me or are my eyes bleeding, all i see is red   =)

Unless you’re shorting stocks or using puts today was a little rough, as i speak the NASDAQ is down almost 4% same with the Dow and the S&P and even the mighty TSX is lower by 2.6%.

Why you may ask?

Because the China stock exchange fell almost 9%, oh plus Greenspan said some nasty comments about the possibility of the US economy heading for recession. I guess he forgot about the spending power of the baby boomers in there prime.

But the real reason the market is down……… PROFIT TAKING, this is a good reason why you should take your profits. This does happen time to time, but corrections are good, cause after corrections come opportunities, and that means more money to be made which i like =)

Some stocks which are tasty at this level (Full Disclosure, I do own these stocks, otherwise why else would i recommend them if i didn’t own them)

GS - Goldman Sachs sitting at $200 good buy

SBUX - Starbucks sitting at Just above $30 a steal of a stock

AAPL - Apple now that’s looking tasty at this level $83 yummy!

AKAM - Akami also another good looking stock.

The point is there are lots of deals to be found, not just only these stocks when the market corrects, look for these deals over the next couple of days,
-Enjoy

So the year is 2007 and well another year another dollar right?   Wrong this is going to be the year where microsoft takes over yahoo, yup you heard it right they are going to buy Yahoo straight out, either an all cash deal or a mixture of stock and cash which is more likely.

You may ask why?

Well the answer is advertising, the only company of the major 3 search engines that’s lacking a total advertising solution.

Yahoo bought overture, Google stole overture’s system and then improved it and Mr. Softy? they have nothing, and if they want a piece of the 42billion (2010 estimate) online advertising revenue then they need a system and they need one now.

Thus equaling my conclusion.

If you still don’t believe me which is ok, just take a look at the financials which supports my theory even further.

Here’s Microsoft’s financial statement

All you need to see if that the total market cap of Yahoo is just under $40 billion

and if you look at cash on hand of Microsoft they have $28 billion in cash.

hmmmmmmm i hoped i piqued your interest Shoemoney wrote a good article on why it should occur as well.

enjoy  =)

Here’s Yahoo’s financial statement

Well it’s finally here, after months of waiting, and Kevin Rose’s prediction, we finally have seen the IPONE from Apple, if you don’t know what I’m talking about go check out the website, i know once you do you will be a fan and you must have it!

Here’s the link

Now as just a teeny tiny side not it’s interesting to see that Apple’s stock (aapl) hit an alltime high today, my predictions are simple, keep your apple stock, if you dont own some, then go buy some once it comes down a buck or two on some more options scandal nonsense.

The way you have to look at this is, if you had the chance to invest in Apple about 4 years ago when the IPOD was launched you would have made a ton of money, well here it is again it’s your turn to make a ton of cash.

P.S. Apple changed there name from Apple Computer to Apple Inc. Hmmmm strange could it be that Apple is focusing on more than just computing?……duh!

Apple is a buy!

This week we are looking at a few different companies, one stock we closely follow here is Akamai Technologies Inc (AKAM)

they have some great fundamental numbers, with a 33PE (price to earnings ratio) and a 4 billion dollar market cap this company is positioned perfectly to profit from the next great internet boom, they handle internet traffic. e.g. March Madness, when the NCAA needed to stream video to millions of people who were watching on the internet they came to Akamai, which has solutions to help the traffic move smoothly. You should be looking to pick up some Akamai between $29-$26/share

The other company we are keeping a close eye on is Las Vegas Sands Corporation. The chart for them is looking good!

But we would need to see a pull back before we would want to get involved, if it breaks below $60 then pick some up anywhere between $60-$55 if we are lucky.

Again this company is great because of the leadership of Mr. Sheldon G. Adelson he is quite the man, this is one of the biggest bets of his life, he is basically risking all he has on the expansion of Macao, which is one thing we love to see, on the other hand he might pull a Kirk Kerkorian but with the way Macao has been preforming to date that is not the case.

So again these are just stocks we are watching and we will see in the coming weeks.

(Full disclosure as of this moment ComingCrisis.com, The author, or family members hold no position in the companies mentioned.)

Today is March 13th 2006 and it was exactly 20 years ago today the most successful technology company of all time came to market.

The year was 1986 Chernobyl was being covered up by the Russian government, the Iran Contra Affair was in full swing and in the NBA The Boston Celtics took the Houston Rockets in 6 games. The most popular song was “That’s What Friends Are For” … Dionne Warwick and Friends and the top movie was Alien , those were the days.

There was also a rather small company changing the way the world was computing, and about to make many early investors and employees (who took stock options) very happy.

The performace of microsoft’s stock has been absolutley stunning as everyone knows, just to give you a few examples if had invested only $3000 at there ipo price of $21 a share it would be worth in excess of 1.1 million, another intresting fact is that Microsoft’s stock has split 9 times, so that same $3000 you would have 40,000+ shares (now that doesnt hurt). We all know Microsoft is one of those rare companies that people wish they had invested in, but now a days all the talk seems to be surrounding Google. Which is very understandable since the stock has put in a great preformance so far, only recently falling on hard times.

The Comparision

Microsoft - The company that popularized the “windows” style (not the inventor, that goes to Xerox Parc, probley the biggest screw up company in the history of the world) and basically owns the Operating System business still to this day, was in the “sweet spot” they were in the right place at the right period in time, when computers were not really able to talk to each other, so the progress was limited. They dominated that spot for now 20 years, but the harder times are now coming, even the chief Bill has declared that the OS’s days are running out, people are now migrating to a simper style of computing. A style which is much more dependant on web services, i would boldly predict that within the next 10 years
you may not even have an opoerating system, your computer would just boot up instantly to your personal “homepage” it’s basically your homebase on what you want to do.

So what are shareholders left to think?

Well as with all other things Bill does he is thinking ahead many many years into the future and he has realized that web services are the future, so as a shareholder (as i am full disclosure people) i think you are in a good spot as Microsoft is gearing up to take over the living room and many other things you never thought of, i.e. the mobile phone with the switching of Palm Treo to the Microsoft mobile OS can it be only a matter of time till the Redmond boys own the phone market too?

I don’t know what the future hold all i know is that the past is a great indication of the future, but remeber just a when you drive you can’t only look in the rear view mirror, that’s how accidents are caused =)
Google

Google ipo’d in August 19th 2004 at $100 a share, since then it has gone on a meteoric rise to the high of $475 and more recently come down to the $350’s.

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