What Apple Stock Teachs Us About Investing And Wall Street

Apple is a great company and if you've owned stock for any reasonable amount of time, you are a happy investor. ?We can learn a lot about investing looking at Apple. ?We can learn plenty about Wall Street at the same time.

Apple was just about $100 in 2009 and has been $700 recently. ?Wow. ?Nice win. ?Pretty much every mutual fund owns it and certainly most every hedge fund has owned it at some time and if it continues higher, they will all own it at the end of the year to make themselves look good on paper.

Lesson One - good stocks continue to go higher, looking at a chart, its pretty much a 45' angle with some pullbacks.

Lesson Two - even super great well performing stocks have significant pullbacks which is usually when supposed long term investors sell (and later wish they hadn't).

Lesson Three - eventually all growth companies and their stocks become too large to grow at the fantastic levels of the recent past and level out, Intel is a wonderful example, Microsoft too.

Lesson Four - you probably don't own it because if you did, your stockbroker or financial advisor probably sold it just as quickly because of commissions.

Lesson Five - Wall Street will get it wrong again. ?Over forty brokerage firms cover Apple and only one has a hold rating, no sells and plenty of buys and strong buys. ?REALLY? ?It is?reminiscent?of the tech bubble when almost no analysts would dare tell investors to sell anything.

Source: http://howtheinvestmentbusinessreallyworks.blogspot.com/2012/09/what-apple-stock-teachs-us-about.html

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Jowanza: Given where TellMe is now on Windows Phone 7 (basically beta software) I can imagine On Windows Phone 8 it's going to be slick.

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Facebook and Google Help Launch Online Safety Platform For Teens

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HBT: Don't read Cardinals' last rites just yet

I know the Cardinals are crumbling like a cookie right now, but there is hope in store. The upcoming schedule:

Four games against the equally crumbling Dodgers;

• Three games against the Houston LoLStros;
• Three games against the Chicago Cubs; and
• Three more games against the LoLStros again.

Yes, they end against the Nationals and the Reds,* but both of those teams will have long since clinched by then and should be resting starters.

The Phillies and Brewers can charge all they want, but I think the Cardinals still have a great shot.

*I originally omitted the Reds from the Cardinals schedule. I?m sure they would like to do that too, but alas, they have to play the games.

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Australian police arrest man on terror charge

SYDNEY (AP) ? Australian police said Thursday that they arrested a man in connection with suspected terrorism offenses during raids in which they seized firearms, computer equipment and a USB stick containing what they said were "violent extremist materials."

Officers swooped onto properties in six Melbourne suburbs Wednesday in a simultaneous raid, the Australian Federal Police and Victoria state police said in a joint statement. The name of the 23-year-old man they arrested was not released.

Among the police targets was an Islamic bookstore called the Al-Furqan Islamic Information Centre. The center's representatives did not respond to calls and emails Thursday, though a spokesman on Wednesday confirmed that police spent about 12 hours inside and took several items.

Steve Fontana, Victoria police assistant commissioner for crime, said police had identified no immediate threats to public safety.

"We will continue to work to ensure that all steps are taken to protect all members of the community," he said.

The man who was arrested was expected to be charged Thursday with collecting or making documents likely to facilitate terrorist acts. If convicted, he could face a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. Police said he was hospitalized with stomach pains on Thursday morning.

On its website, the Al-Furqan center says it hosts an Islamic book store and library and offers youth activities, daily prayers and classes.

Terrorism expert Greg Barton, director of Monash University's Centre for Islam and the Modern World, said the Al-Furqan center represents the "fringe of the fringe."

"Their talk is extreme on their website ? they've got a link to an interview with Anwar al-Awlaki, the former Yemeni-American leader to al-Qaida," he said. "So there's no question they're flying their colors in a fairly flagrant fashion."

Still, the group only attracts a few dozen regular members, has no broad influence and had garnered little attention until Wednesday's raids, Barton said.

"They'd ordinarily be a group that's all talk and no action except for the possibility somebody might take on board their ideas and move on and go abroad," Barton said. "It's got stepping stone potential, I think, which is why the authorities were watching them."

Over the past few weeks, the group made several postings on its Facebook page and website referencing a "spy" that had been uncovered in their community. It was not clear from the postings what specifically the group was referring to.

Barton said he suspects that once the group began posting publicly about being under surveillance, authorities decided to move in.

Police declined to comment on the spying allegations.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/australian-police-arrest-man-terror-charge-023856065.html

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Kraft expects long-term growth at new NA foods co

NEW YORK (AP) ? Kraft says its new North American food company will be poised to deliver long-term profit and revenue growth, while also returning cash to its shareholders.

Kraft Foods Inc. is set to split into two companies next month. One will keep the Kraft name and focus on North American grocery brands such as Velveeta and Oscar Mayer. The other will be called Mondelez and focus on snacks such as Oreos that are sold internationally.

Northfield, Ill.-based Kraft told investors Friday at a conference in Boston that it expects the North American grocery company to post a 2013 profit of about $2.60 per share. The prediction includes 26 cents per share in restructuring costs.

Its management team also plans to recommend an annual dividend of $2.

Associated Press

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