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Well, I can speak from experience here. When I first invested in CROX, the “ugly” shoe stock, the financials looked pretty good, and the company looked like a good value. Actually, the price went from 18.12 to almost 20 in my first day. The second day it hovered at around 18.60 for over a week. During the next two weeks, the stock plummeted close to 15 but climbed up to almost 22. Last week the stock went down to 18 and remained there until the beginning of this week, when it plummeted down to about 9–that would be about $900 I lost. This sudden 50% drop is a result of declining popularity in the shoes. As of today, the stock is slowly but surely climbing. I am starting to believe that the market overreacts to every news tidbit that comes out about Crocs. One thing is for sure, next time the stock gets anywhere near 22, I am selling without hesitation. Here’s more info. on the stock: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:CROX
According to Yahoo Travel, Travelers can expect fewer deals and higher fares on some routes if Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines complete the merger announced Monday, because it could trigger a wave of consolidation within the airline industry. Fuller planes and fewer available seats allow airlines to cut back on the supply of cheapest seats, charging more on average per seat. However, the route systems between Delta and Northwest “barely overlap,” so the deal might not lead to a huge reduction in competition.
Consumers, beset by a credit crunch, rising energy and food costs and a prolonged housing slump, stayed away from the malls in March. Retail sales posted only a small increase after a big drop in February, according to Yahoo Finance. The Commerce Department reported Monday that retail sales edged up 0.2 percent in March after a 0.4 percent decline in February. The March gain primarily reflected higher costs for gasoline, which climbed to record highs. Excluding a big 1.1 percent rise in sales at gasoline service stations, retail sales would have been flat last month. The 0.2 percent increase in retail sales was slightly better than the 0.1 percent increase that analysts had expected and the February decline was revised from an even-bigger 0.6 percent plunge that had been initially reported.
According to Yahoo Finance, A rapidly escalating global food crisis has reached emergency proportions and threatens to wipe out seven years of progress in the fight against poverty, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Monday. He called for short-term emergency measures in many regions to meet urgent food needs and avoid starvation and longer-term efforts to significantly increase production of food grains.
The secretary-general echoed World Bank President Robert Zoellick’s appeal to governments on Sunday to quickly provide the U.N. World Food Program with $500 million in emergency aid that it needs by May 1. Zoellick said the international community has “to put our money where our mouth is” to deal with rapidly rising food prices that have caused hunger and deadly violence in several countries. Ban said the recent steep rise in food prices “has already raised the cost of WFP’s needs to maintain its current operations from $500 million to $755 million.”
Lately, I’ve seen some TV advertisements for doctor-administered pharmaceutical products rather than for self-administered ones. Mirena is an example of a doctor-administered contraceptive: http://www.mirena-us.com/index.jsp. With so many available forms of contraceptives, like condoms, pills, and other self-administered products, why is it important to have a new product like Mirena? Then I saw another commercial for a nose strip that facilitates breathing, but that only a doctor can administer–I have seen a similar product that is self-administered.
All of this led me to think that there is a trend among pharmaceutical companies to avoid lawsuit losses by laying the responsibility upon the doctor, thus making it harder to attribute any harm to a single cause. This makes sense if you consider how harmful these big lawsuits can be, like the one Viagra faced: http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/viagra/lawsuit.html
The proxy statements and cards have been mailed to Citi’s stockholders beginning about March 13, 2008. Citi’s annual stockholder’s meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at 10AM at the Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas in New York City. The entrance to the Hilton is on Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave.) between west 53rd and West 54th Streets. You will need an admission ticket or proof of ownership of Citi stock to enter the meeting.
If you are unable to attend, you can vote by telephone or the Internet by visiting www.proxyvote.com.
Though the iPhone has become a big hit all across the United States, businesses have decided not to join the bandwagon of iPhone fanatics. According to the Wall Street Journal, the iPhone is less secure than business-oriented smart phones such as those from Nokia Corp. or Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry, according to IT professionals. But that isn’t stopping people from using the device for work-related tasks such as checking email, managing sales contacts and getting information about prospective clients. In fact, market researcher Nielsen Co. estimates that one-quarter of iPhone owners over the age of 18 pass their phone bills on to their employer, suggesting significant use of the device for business. Read more here.
Greg Valliere, a Chief Strategist at the Stanford Washington Research Group, cracked that he needed to take a Jim Cramer moment and rant about how “rewarding” the Fed with more regulatory power was “like putting Eliot Spitzer in charge of the morals division.” Jim Cramer, without missing a beat said “Well, I wouldn’t necessarily make the Fed Client No. 10.” Visit the Huffington Post for the video.
According to the Huffington Post, the Bush administration Monday proposed the most far-ranging overhaul of the financial regulatory system since the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression. The plan would change how the government regulates thousands of businesses from the nation’s biggest banks and investment houses down to the local insurance agent and mortgage broker. With this move being made by the Bush Administration, things are not looking good for the economy.
