Daily investment & finance thread (4-19-13 edition)

4-19-13

[dennisw]

Daily investment & finance thread (4-19-13 edition) ----  Freepers lets make some cash
Trying to focus on the markets for today and each day and the economic news
This is where you can impart some investment wisdom to your fellow freepers. 
You can comlain about the big one that got away. 
How Obama is out to wreck American capitalism.

If you see another FR economic thread you like and want to link to it here, please do
Post your favorite economic site links. Your favorite economic blogs and precious metals blogs and sites

Apmex.com is a solid place with good reputation to buy precious metals and has great presence on ebay for easy quick impulse buys such as a gift for a college boy's graduation. College Girls too! Even high school.
Kitco is the best site for gold and silver charts and other precious metals information

Ping list -- on or off let me know here or via freep-mail. If I missed you then Freep-mail me
I might ping you to other interesting economic threads a few times a week. One per day maybe

Sites that posters have recommended ------ 

hot stuff here Rush Limbaugh quotes them sometimes
http://www.zerohedge.com 

Precious Metals
http://www.tfmetalsreport.com
http://www.Apmex.com

The Markets....
http://seekingalpha.com/
http://www.dailystocks.com/
http://www.gainerstoday.com/
http://www.gainerstoday.com/
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/
http://247wallst.com/
http://www.decisionmoose.com/
http://www.market-ticker.org/

Dividends...
http://dividendsvalue.com/
http://www.dividends4life.com/
http://www.dividendyieldhunter.com/
http://www.dividendstocksonline.com/
http://www.dividenddetective.com/
http://dividendstocks4income.com/
http://www.dividendgrowthinvestor.com/

“Drip-ing”...
http://dripinvesting.org/tools/tools.asp

CPA’s....
http://www.aicpa.org

Gold, Out of the Box Thinking etc...
http://www.davejanda.com/
https://www.everbank.com/
http://dailypfennig.com/
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/

Oil and Gas Industry
http://fuelfix.com/
http://www.theoildrum.com/
http://www.petroleumnews.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/homeauto.html

Treasury Basics..
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/BC/SBCPrice

[dennisw]

pong

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Howdy - Thanks for having this thread!

I do a lot of self-directed investing and have done well enough to retire early. Some DGI & some growth stocks.

Some of my picks/holdings:

COP
INTC
LNCO
NYMT
O
AGNC
ARR
FNMIX
PONDX (Stable & pays good)
THOPX (Stable & pays good too)

Comments?

Thanks again and please add me to the Ping list.

Have a great day!!

[dennisw]

INTC is hilarious they throw a quarter at you every quarter but that still comes out to 4% dividends each year-— better than banks etc

[Justa]

I use PWE for a quarterly-quarter but the yearly dividend rate is 11%.

I must say LFoD’s PONDX looks very attractive.

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

I got it just above $19... :-)

[yldstrk]

great pic of you and Jenna Bush

[LuvFreeRepublic]

Thanks for posting your investment choices. Gives me something to look into.

[Aliska]

I don't know any of those except INTC. Mine is doing ok. I'm down bad on FCX, HPQ, BBRY and XONE. Did well on short term trades of the last 3 within the last couple months, bought back in and down.

I don't know what your other ones are, couple penny stocks and rest look like bond and real estate, etf or mutual funds, etc (I plugged them into one of my watchists). You need some food. I can't find any energy to suit me nor pharma. No funds left for investing anyway, all tied up for now.

[palmer]

U.K. Downgraded, Stripped of AAA Rating

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

“great pic of you and Jenna Bush”

Oh, thanks. :-)

[dennisw]

Here is a very good man with some choice words for the Bank of England which just installed a Canadian because the last man was not doing enough quantitative easing. Japan is now in the quant easing sweepstakes, trying to beat The Fed and The Bank of England
http://www.thedailybell.com/28980/Anthony-Wile-John-Browne-Explains-The-Great-Game

[dennisw]

yeah cool pic!

[dennisw]

The AngloSphere has two crazy central banks. The Fed and the Bank of England. Japan’s central bank has decided to go all in on quantitative easing and outdoing the two just mentioned.

Bank of England just got rid of their top man because he was not easing enough. They hired an outsider, a Canadian, to put the pedal to the metal

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Yea, she’s a beauty.