Wall Street To Main Street: News, Views And Commentary: April 26, 2006 It’s Wednesday April 26, 2006, and after President Bush’s speech yesterday oil markets are still towing the line as the main catalyst is still the situation in Iran, the rising prices at the pump has a big question mark on it as the switch to the ethanol additive may partially be to blameThe NAMC Newswire’s “Wall Street to Main Street” segment in its entirety is only available to ...

Wall Street To Main Street: News, Views And Commentary: April 24, 2006 It’s Monday April 24, 2006, and the earnings parade continues but that is not the headline news for traders The situation in Iran and the growing tensions have forced crude oil to hit all time highs trading over $75 a barrel on its way to $80, now this rise is dependent on the tension remaining in Iran and Nigeria, which does not show signs of letting up anytime ...

Wall Street To Main Street: News, Views And Commentary: April 21, 2006 It’s Friday April 21, 2006, and it’s the last day of the trading week as the earnings parade rages on with numbers coming out from Apple Computer (NASDAQ: AAPL), Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), Juniper Networks (NASDAQ: JNPR), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), E Trade (NYSE: ET) and the big shocker, not in our eyes, but for those doubters was Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)The NAMC Newswire’s “Wall Street to Main ...

Credit Card Applications - Getting Approved After Refusal It can be disheartening when you apply for a credit card and get turned down However, in the vast majority of cases, it really is not anything that you need to worry about While there are some people out there who would be approved for virtually everything they could think of applying for, for the vast majority of us, applying for a credit card can take a little time and some trial and error Credit card providers generally have ...

Growing Old There are a couple of things in life that we know, at some stage, we will be worried about Growing old certainly seems to be one of them More and more, our culture is becoming obsessed by the cult of youth Not only are film stars and musicians young and beautiful, but increasingly, politicians and newsreaders are getting younger also Add to this the extraordinary lengths to which the not so young among the elite are going to maintain their youth and appear young and ...

Can't Afford the Big House, or Can You? Exploding growth in the mortgage loan segment has put the interest only loan in a huge category all it's own Up from the first part of the century, the interest only loan is now cornering a near one-fourth of the mortgage loan market That kind of growth is almost frightening to even the most experienced lender The benefit of the interest only loan is that the consumer is eligible to buy a much bigger house, than with a standard ...

An Analysis Of Lexmark In 2005, Berkshire Hathaway bought about a million shares of Lexmark I havenÂ’t followed this story closely, but I assume the stock was purchased by Lou Simpson rather than Warren Buffett I have only two reasons for believing this: the total purchase was small relative to BerkshireÂ’s investable assets and the Lexmark purchase is typical of SimpsonÂ’s investment philosophy (or at least, what little I can glean about his investment philosophy from his past purchases) Regardless ...