MaoXian.com -- Archive > November 10, 2004

Baby Steps Toward the Open Web

I see that an article from WSJ.com - Analyzing Customers, Best Buy Decides Not All Are Welcome - made it onto Blogdex. It never would have in the past, and of course when WSJ.com gets locked back up next week no one will link there again. Everyone knows it's bad form to link to a subscribers-only site.

I think WSJ.com should get a clue and make "Today's Most Popular" articles (which are determined by what subscribers are reading) open to everyone all the time. If you're a Dow Jones manager and want to talk to me about it, just drop a line. (My advice costs only $1,000 an hour.)

Posted at 18:40, GMT

The Daily Zinger

ADSX continues to be a player. Have a good day, guys.

ADSX, 1-min. Chart | Scanner at 10:06:30

Posted at 15:40, GMT

Attaboy

He's much handsomer than his Daddy! I plan to post an album of our 3-D ultrasound pics.

Posted at 15:00, GMT

Stocks to Watch -- Wednesday, November 10

Posted at 14:15, GMT

Chart of the Day -- Light Sweet Crude Oil futures, 30-min. Chart

Fuzzy is still short Crude from $53.75. This market has been acting beautifully, making it a trend-followers' delight.

Light Sweet Crude Oil futures, 30-min. Chart

Posted at 8:25, GMT

Best and Worst Performing Small-Cap Stocks (last 4 weeks)

Every Wednesday I feature a stock scan from my universe of Small-Cap stocks. Last Wednesday I listed the best and worst performers over the last 12 weeks; today I'm posting the list of the best and worst performers over the last 4 weeks.

Best:

Tower Automotive Inc (TWR)
Up ~58% {structural components and assemblies}
MemberWorks Inc (VTRU)
Up ~41% {membership programs}
Roxio Inc (ROXI)
Up ~41% {digital media software and services, Napster}
Osteotech Inc (OSTE)
Up ~38% {repair and healing of the musculoskeletal system}
Frontier Airlines Inc (FRNT)
Up ~37% {Denver-based airline}

Worst:

FLYi Inc (FLYI)
Down ~46% {regional airline, formerly Atlantic Coast Airlines}
Odyssey Healthcare Inc (ODSY)
Down ~34% {provides hospice care}
Jakks Pacific Inc (JAKK)
Down ~27% {toys}
American Italian Pasta Co (PLB)
Down ~26% {dry pasta}
Zix Corporation (ZIXI)
Down ~26% {e-messaging protection and transaction services}

Posted at 8:15, GMT

Reuters, Bloomberg, Fredy Bush

A talent for building bridges between East and West, by Mei Fong:

"Fredy Bush, a businesswoman from Utah, scored a coup in 1999: She persuaded Xinhua News Agency, Beijing's official wire service, to let her use its name and connections to build a China-based financial news service. That allowed Ms. Bush, a Mormon-raised single mother with no journalism experience, to set herself up as a rival to established financial information agencies like Reuters, Bloomberg and Dow Jones & Co. ... Xinhua's agreement to grant XFN a 20-year monopoly on its market data and exclusive distribution rights outside China will still hold even if Xinhua no longer owns shares in XFN."

Someone in Beijing probably got executed for making this "deal."

Posted at 7:55, GMT

Calling It Quits

Why I'm closing my hedge fund, by Jeff Macke:

"For smaller funds... the time and expense associated with complying with the increased requirements can nearly be a deal breaker on their own. It's not only the fact that auditing and legal fees have dramatically increased (quadrupling in the 5 years I've been running my fund). The main rub is that the managers' time is increasingly spent dotting 'I's and crossing 'T's on paperwork that, for the most part, adds no element of safety to limited partners. In terms of productivity it's akin to sending fund managers to the DMV for two weeks at the end of every quarter."

Posted at 7:45, GMT

Add Another Q

Tracking stock to migrate to Nasdaq from Amex

"Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. said Tuesday the Nasdaq-100 tracking stock, known as the QQQ, would transfer to its market from its current listing on the American Stock Exchange, effective Dec. 1. The Nasdaq said the index's new trading designation would be 'QQQQ.'"

Posted at 7:35, GMT

Too Little Too Late

New surge of Americans studying in the Arab world, by Dan Murphy:

"A Modern Language Association survey from fall 2002 found that 10,600 American students were studying Arabic, up from 5,500 in 1998 ... Wulfsberg [an American student] tries to limit his time with other foreigners, socializing with Egyptian and Afghani friends who study at Al Azhar, the ancient university that draws Muslim students from more than 90 countries. He tells people on the streets that he's Norwegian, mostly so people don't try to practice their English with him, but also because he's grown tired of becoming a stand-in for the US government."

When I was studying in China, I would say I was Yugoslavian for the same reasons.

Posted at 7:25, GMT

Lottery Losers

Unlucky in riches, by Ellen Goodstein

Posted at 7:15, GMT

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