Carl Icahn, it seems, bought a cool 50 million Yahoo! shares in the past week alone, worth about $1.3 billion which gives him a 3.5% stake in Yahoo! Inc., and is now said to be considering a proxy fight with the Yahoo Board. He has also sent out feelers to Microsoft, trying to get them to reopen negotiations.

Wal-Mart & Costco show good earnings, translates into a recession.

Barron's analyst recommends Oceaneering International as demand for deepwater exploration for oil and natural gas continues to increase, and company's stock has dropped 20% since last October (creating a buying opportunity).

Rep. Paul Kujawski of Webster, MA, sponsored an amendment to the House budget for studying whether university endowments worth over $1 billion in the state should be slapped with a 2.5% tax. This has a created a little storm in academic circles in MA, with every two bit economist and every major media outlet coming out against the proposal.

"When the LBO firms went public, the next day, the game was up,” said Jarislowsky, whose firm manages about $56 billion. “Why is he going public? If it’s going that well, why would you let anybody in on it? Why doesn’t he just sell to his partners?”

Here are some good quotes from the Berkshire meeting in Omaha that took place last weekend. Most of these were not reported in the mainstream media...

The price of a barrel of oil has passed the $122 mark for the first time. US light crude hit a fresh high of $122.73 in New York trading, while London's Brent crude has passed $120 for the first time, hitting $120.99.

There has been many discussion about which strategy is better, fundamental analysis or tehcnical analysis. Technical aproach has been reinforced by trading software which can be used to predict price based on price simulation. The technical analysis is easier to use than fundamental. But when the market crash on October 1987, traders started to pay attention on the fundamentals.

Garmin is the dominant player in the fast growing GPS market. The company has delivered nearly 50% annual earnings growth since 2003, and is expected to grow at 17% per year going forward. With it's current 11 P/E, is Garmin a textbook example of growth at a reasonable price?

Last week was very interesting to say the least. it was pretty much decided that we are still very deep in the woods. How far will oil take us? Only time will tell.

Wall Street rallied Monday as oil prices, supported by a stronger dollar, fell back and alleviated some of investors’ concerns about accelerating inflation. The Dow Jones industrials gained 130 points.

National Western Life Insurance Company (NWLIA) is a little known life insurance company that trades under book value. It just reported earnings on May 7.

Watch the video on our website to understand the market conditions of the stock market. Every thing you need to know is in the charts. Is barely good enough for buy and hold but if you do use technical analysis.

Costs of health care are rising, lets face it if you watch the markets you see health care companies like HUM and AET posting good profits for many years means someone is paying them more and more each year and that cost is now making it to us in a new way.

A downside risk reduction strategy involving the simultaneous purchase of a put option with the sale of a covered call option. This is known as the Equity Collar.