Month: January 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute Amazon have already sold those in its main web site. The only thing new here is they are going to launch a new site for this. The site is called endless. I don’t know too much about bags but I know the footwear sales through the web is increasing. As a testimony I bought two pairs of shoes

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January 4, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute All right, I received this tip from a credit card company, and I think it’s a good one. Sometimes Yahoo Mail will mistakenly put the monthly billing email from someone into junk mail folder. To ensure delivery, add the sender’s email address to your address book, that way it will always put email to your inbox. Well,

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January 4, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute The following is an incomplete list of the Chinese blue chip (or red chips) companies traded both in NYSE and HKSE (Hongkong Stock Exchange). Some thinly traded stocks such as China Eastern Airlines (CEA) are not included.   NYSE HK         Full Name  ACH  2600.HK  Aluminum China CEO  0883.HK  China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) CHA  0728.HK  China Telecom

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January 4, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s the beginning of the year again. As usual people like to predict the markets, the economy etc. I don’t know how accurate will that be. But I know probablly half of them will turn out to be right 🙂 Predicting the general market and economy is not an easy job. But I think as individual

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January 3, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute I have the following stocks in my Scottrade account as of today Jan 3, 2007. I remember the beginning of last year I only have 200 shares of Symantec (SYMC) Crocs (CROX): 46 shares, it seems people can not get enough of those funky shoes. Heelys (HLYS): 62 shares, it seems everyone is skeptical of this except me

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January 3, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute Home Inns’ (HMIN) stock traded above $40 for the first time  today Jan 3, 2007. Since its debut on Oct 26, 2006, the stock almost doubled from its first day close price (about $22.50). From traditional valuation point of view, this is a bit insane. As a stock holder I am also nervous about such

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January 3, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute I happened to see ACH, Aluminum China, from grusinvestments. And I went to Yahoo Finance to get more info. But some of the data there are not accurate. For instance, the PE 1.96, and yield 12.90% should really be 8, and 3.2% respectively. I think the problem was caused by the split of their stocks

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January 2, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute I started to use web based Yahoo Mail from 1998. It’s not perfect (large amount of spams, sometimes it put legimitate mail to bulk folder), but it works. About 2 years ago I got the GMail account and started using it. GMail has some nice features such as it “groups” same subject emails in one

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January 2, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute My 2001 Nissan Altima runs fine except one minor problem: its “service engine soon” light will be ON and OFF randomly. Usually it will be ON for 2 weeks, after I fill the gas, it will be OFF for a while. This is OK except here in St. Louis all the cars need to pass the

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January 2, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute Personal  Spend more quality time with family and friends; cut Internet and TV time.  Drive safely. Walk safely. Drive and walk safely. Financial Pay off the Home Equity Line of Credit (currently 8.5% interest rate). Consolidate checking accounts (from 3 to 2); same for the credit cards usage. Regular investment in stock markets: looking for fast grower,

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January 2, 2007
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