by Jason Apollo Voss | 03 09 2009 | Blog
Hello everyone, First things first…Jamaica was magnificent. Dawn and I stayed at her parent’s place in Treasure Beach. I highly recommend this area of Jamaica to anyone for its unspoiled beaches, clean water, outstanding weather and sweet people. When I...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 27 08 2009 | Blog
The various stock markets have all rallied massively since their March 9 lows. Some market prognosticators who made similar market bottom calls as I did are now saying that stocks are overvalued and may correct from here. “Correct” means fall back down to...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 26 08 2009 | Blog
You may remember that earlier this Spring I wrote a post about the fact that Brett Arends of the Wall Street Journal was saying investors should be staying away from the stock market. I stated in the post that journalists are one of my favorite contrarian indicators....
by Jason Apollo Voss | 25 08 2009 | Blog
Over the weekend Warner Chilcott announced that it was buying Proctor and Gamble’s prescription drug business for $3 billion. While the size of the transaction is small the entire amount of the deal is being financed with debt. This is important because Warner...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 24 08 2009 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Monday’s Wall Street Journal carried a story about a sleazy practice on the part of Goldman Sachs. The piece states that Goldman analysts regularly report stock tips at “trading huddles” in advance of a public declaration in research reports. This...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 24 08 2009 | Blog
In a rare recent demonstration of legislative impetus toward increased regulatory oversight of markets Senator Kaufman of Delaware has sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission asking them to review all forms of stock-market structure. In particular his...