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Comverse Technology - Takeover on the Horizon? "The Greatest Stock Story Never Told"
Written By: Thomas Chenoweth
2007-11-29 05:07:58

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In my early days as a stockbroker, I worked for a small investment banking firm that participated in underwriting small speculative growth companies that mainly traded as pink sheet stocks. Nine out of ten companies in this arena never make it, but I was fortunate enough to embrace one that turned out to be my greatest lesson in what can happen to a long-term stock buy.

I also learned what can happen if I don't stay with my beliefs and bail on a stock too early, resulting in years of kicking myself and muttering of what I should have, could have, would have done.

The company I am referring to is my first stock pick from 1989, Comverse Technology (CMVT -OTC).

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Could It be JP Morgan Buying Bear Common?
Written By: David Neubert
2008-03-19 11:16:32
Could it be a Holy Mystery, like they told you in Catholic school, for anything that couldn't be explained? Steve Randy Waldman at Interfluidity.com has another theory on why Bear Stearns (BSC - $5.94) is trading above the $2.00. He offers up god, oh I mean Jamie Dimon, channeling J.P. Morgan. Could The House of Morgan be the one buying shares above the deal price to vote them their own way? I love the idea but I see securities law problems with that theory. I don't think JP Morgan would risk that.

I'll be watching to see what Mr Waldman comes up with next.

Disclosure: I own BSC. I own Bear Stearn Preferred shares. I am short 10 strike calls on BSC and long 15 strike calls. I own JPM. I did not go to Catholic school.

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Do You Unknowingly Invest in Exxon Mobil (XOM)?
Written By: Miranda Marquit
2008-03-24 13:42:41
You might be surprised to learn what your investment portfolio really looks like.

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E*TRADE Commercial Captures the Essence of Trading
Written By: David Neubert
2008-03-21 15:35:55
I do not endorse any one broker, but this eTrade commercial really got to the essense of what trading for one's own account is all about. This E*TRADE advertisement caused the following emotional and intellectual reactions in me:

1. I felt guilty about investing in Pharma companies who rely more on marketing than curing diseases.
2. I felt good about the power all self directed investors have at our fingertips.
3. I Laughed my butt off.
4. I thought about adding E*TRADE FINANCIAL (ETFC - $3.72) to the list I created today of investment banks to buy on the next pullback. I just thought about it and I wouldn't include E*TRADE in that same list, though I do think they are nice speculation on a buyout or return to grace after all the dust settles in the sub-prime mortgage debacle. After all, First Call analyst estimates have them earning $0.37 a share by 2010 that would imply a cheap 13 times earnings - not a bad deal if there are no more surprises in their mortgage portfolio.

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Economist Jeffrey Sachs: "We'll Get Out of This Mess"
Written By: Michelle Haimoff
2008-03-25 22:42:35
I attended Charlie Rose’s interview of Jeffrey Sachs at the 92nd Street Y on Tuesday night. Jeffrey Sachs, who is the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and has been an economic advisor to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, Asia, and Africa, as well as an author and the only academic to have been repeatedly ranked among the world's most influential people by Time magazine, is about as close to a household name as an economist can get.

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