Dow Jones News
By Lynn Cowan Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
Cellphone-services company Virgin Mobile USA Inc.’s (VM) initial public offering slowly gained traction in its first hour of trading Thursday
The stock opened at $15 a share on the New York Stock Exchange, flat with its IPO price, but gradually rose from there. A total of 27.5 million […]

A market transaction in which an investor sells borrowed securities in
anticipation of a price decline and is required to return an equal
amount of shares at some point in the future.
The payoff to selling short is the opposite of a long position. A
short seller will make money if the stock goes down in price, while a
long […]

Cramer is a fraud, he said
so himself too, he told in a video how he manipulated market while he
was an hedge fund manager… Here a piece of wiki of what people think
about him:
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* In January 2006, Joseph Nocera opined that the “people who are
watching [Mad Money] and following [Cramer’s] advice are fools.” [2]
* In February […]

Take what you hear about this company on shows like ‘Fast Money’ or
any other CNBC or Bloomberg show. I think CNBC and the rest of the
western financial media do a terrific job giving insight into American
business, however they lack any of the subtle understanding of China,
Chinese culture, and the dramatic effect this has on business […]

The New Buffettology: The Proven Techniques for Investing Successfully in Changing Markets That Have Made Warren Buffett the World’s Most Famous Investor
by Mary Buffett (Author), David Clark (Author)
If you read the original Buffettology, you know exactly half of what you need to know to effectively apply Warren Buffett’s investment strategies. Published in 1997, the bestselling […]

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, first published in 1949, is a widely acclaimed book on investing. Famous investor and billionaire Warren Buffett describes it as “by far the best book on investing ever written”[1], a sentiment echoed by other Graham disciples such as Irving Kahn and Walter Schloss.
Graham’s favourite allegory is that of Mr. […]

NEW YORK, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Virgin Mobile USA Inc, a venture of Sprint Nextel Corp and Richard Branson’s Virgin Group [VA.UL], raised $412.5 million on Wednesday, with an initial public offering that priced at the low end of expectations.
The pay-as-you-go mobile service provider, which focuses on the youth market, sold 27.5 million shares […]

Shu-Ching Jean Chen 10.10.07, 6:16 AM ET (Forbes.com)
China Digital TV Holding, a privately run digital television equipment maker, has become the latest darling of Wall Street, as its stock has more than tripled in just three trading days since its debut on New York Stock Exchange last Friday.
China Digital TV , rebranded from its […]

China Digital TV Energizes IPOs With a Gain of 75%
By LYNN COWAN
October 6, 2007
China Digital TV Holding Co. turned a slow week for new stock issues into one that crackled with energy Friday, soaring 75%.
The Beijing company’s stock was among just a trio of initial public offerings of stock to begin trading in the past […]

DarkLaser:
VMWare is #1 in the virtualization industry, and even if the others (Xen & Microsoft) do create a product which meets the standards it has set, it has such a foot hold already it will be difficult pass them. An example. Microsoft got their foot in the windowing desktop environment of computers, and […]