investing

Value in General Electric?

I’m addicted to watching General Electric’s (GE) stock each day.  At today’s close it was $9.08 a share.  This is a solid company who has their hands and all different sorts of products and sectors.  Their earnings are lower due to the fact that the whole economy has slowed tremendously, but once we’re out of […]

Opened a joint Sharebuilder

Today I opened a joint sharebuilder investment account with my wife.  I already had one just in my name, but I didn’t want to have investments in just my name.  I don’t have any investments with Sharebuilder at the moment but I figured it’d be better to go ahead and have an account with me […]

Mechel OAO (MTL), buying deal because of the value!

One of the companies that I have had my eye on dropped over 21% today.  This company has dropped from a high of almost $60 a share down to $2.57 a share today.  There is a billion ruble lawsuit against the company, but that only translates to about $30.3 million american dollars.  Unless I’m missing […]

Cash for stock investments

I’m trying to find so cash to invest in dividend stocks to start building a dividend portfolio.  Now is a great time to buy in to solid companies.   One of my goals right now is to build our family’s online savings account to $10k, we’re only at about $6.5k, right now.  After completing that task, […]

DNP Select Income Fund (NYSE:DNP)

I’ve been watching DNP Select Income Fund for a while now.  Dividends have been paid since 1989 on a monthly basis.  They primarily invests in a diversified portfolio of equity and fixed-income securities of companies in the public utilities industry.  Today it closed at $6.58/share for a dividend yield of 11.85%.  This stock held nicely […]

If I had $3,000 I would buy this portfolio

If I had $3,000 right now to spend freely and didn’t need the money in the near future I would start my dividend portfolio made up of the following companies.

I have a couple conservative companies, but the rest are somewhat higher yield and a little more risky. Do you think I’m too greedy?
All have […]

Sharebuilder says “$9.95 real-time trades for EVERYONE!”

I just checked out Sharebuilder’s new website. They have changed the colors to match ING’s now. I think it looks pretty good. They say nothing about my account will change and login is the same also.
One of my favorite things I noticed when I first saw the site is that real-time trades […]

Hard letting go…

Today I wrote my biggest check I’ve ever written out of my account. I wrote a $2,000 check to my employer to pay for my 2008 ESPP contributions. I know I looked at that check more than 20 times before I put it in the envelope before I mailed it off. Even […]

Pulling The Trigger And Letting Go

Over the past few weeks I’ve felt like I need to liquidate some of my holdings and have some more cash for now.  I’ve struggled trying to figure which of company I wanted to pull the trigger on and let go.

Middleby - this was my largest gainer… well only gainer with over 22% gain in […]

Sharebuilder bought out by ING Direct

Monday I got an e-mail from Sharebuilder telling me that they were bought out by ING Direct. I don’t think its a bad thing as long as things don’t change because I haven’t had a problem with Sharebuilder so far in the over 2 years I’ve been with them. I actually hope that […]