Okay, we’re going to get into the market again—at least, we will if E*Trade stops telling me “quotes unavailable” when I try to buy. I have a little money to put into my IRA. I’d be just as happy holding off, but Jon thinks we may have hit a bottom—he noted that housing starts are [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘dividend stocks’
February 2, 2009
Am I a good stock picker?
Four times in my life I have thought: “That would be a good stock to buy.” And all of those times, it turned out I was right. The first time was when Chipotle went public. It was Jon’s idea; we were eating there often at the time, and he mentioned that he thought it would be [...]
November 12, 2008
And once again, we ask: should we buy more GE stock?
It’s that time of the month again: when Jon looks at GE’s slumping stock price and can’t resist. (Hey, Warren Buffet couldn’t resist either.) It’s now at $17.81, down from about $32 when we first bought it earlier this year. That means the dividend yield is almost 7 percent. GE recently declined to raise the [...]
November 3, 2008
What index fund should I buy?
Usually, Jon’s the one who gets up in the morning and checks the Asian and European stock markets, for clues to what our market will do when it opens. But this morning it was me. For weeks, he’s been saying we should buy, and I’ve been pointing out that we have a $8800 tuition bill [...]
July 7, 2008
The perils of giving investment advice
A couple years ago, my sister and I both got interested in buying individual stocks. I was looking at two solar companies: SunPower and Energy Conversion Devices. Shares of both companies cost less than $40 at the time. We both decided to buy ENER, which languished around $30 for months and months, while SunPower shot [...]
