Neat bit of politicking. <\/strong>The Greek prime minister called off the referendum (which he knew would say NO) after his opposition leader said YES.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Bought\u00a0 some muni bonds yesterday. New York Water. <\/span>Got <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>2.32% to a 2013 call and a yield to maturity of 4.70%.\u00a0 It’s a long bond — 23 years. But I have plenty of shorter ones. I’m hoping they won’t call it. But even if they do, I’m earning more (remember it’s triple tax free) than leaving the money\u00a0 in a money market fund. The one reason I like a laddered bond portfolio — bonds coming to maturity one year after another — is that it gives me an opportunity to buy bonds with higher coupons — should interest rates ever rise. <\/span><\/strong> Online trading. I use Fidelity. It’s $7.95 a buy or a sell, no matter how big.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Barclays reiterated its overweight on Annaly. <\/strong><\/span> Barclays analyst says, “Overall we view the results as positive because we believe the more conservative balance sheet management should increase the sustainability of the dividend. While we are revising down our estimates in coming quarters to adjust for lower leverage and asset yields, we continue to view the company as capable of generating mid-teens returns. With the shares trading down to a nearly 15% dividend yield and 1.0x book vs. an historic multiple closer to 1.1x, we recommend adding to positions based on the continued compelling total return opportunity.”<\/p>\n Bad Elf is a neat EPS product.<\/strong><\/span> Plug this $99 device in to the bottom of your iPad, iPhone or iTouch and you significantly enchance its GPS ability. It works with and enhances virtually every GPS app available for the Apple devices — which include apps for biking, running, navigating, etc. You can even sit on a plane flying across the Atlantic and watch your minute-by-minute progress. Where you are. What speed you’re traveling at. For more, click<\/span> here.<\/a> Another reason to love Mr. Corzine.<\/strong><\/span> From today’s Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/a> (this is mindblowing):<\/p>\n For the past two years, MF Global Holdings Ltd. may have disguised its debt levels to investors by temporarily slashing the debt it was carrying before publicly reporting its finances each quarter.<\/p>\n The activity, referred to in the financial industry as “window dressing,” suggests that the troubled financial firm was shouldering more risk and using more borrowed funds to facilitate its trading than investors could easily detect from the firm’s regulatory filings.<\/p>\n Really prescient.\u00a0 S&P lowered its\u00a0 rating on MF Global to D from BBB — after<\/strong> MF Global filed for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n I gather they still can’t find some of the money investors deposited with MF Global. And now this revelation of Window Dressing.\u00a0 Corzine will swing. I wonder whatever got into his tiny brain? Corzine has now resigned and said he won’t seek his $12 million severance — which he wasn’t legally entitled to, anyway.<\/p>\n MF Global — another reason to make you feel really warm about dealing with Wall Street.<\/p>\n Cameras and computers. Experiences.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n + Canon G12 is still the best point and shoot. <\/strong>Nikon has a new one called the Nikon V1. It has a great eye-level viewfinderthat shows 100% of what you’re shooting and its shutter lag is almost instaneous — not as fastas a DSLR, but very lose. The Nikon V1 also has interchangable lenses, but they stick out, making the camera not pocketable — which the Canon G12 is. The G12 is also much, much cheaper.<\/p>\n + SSDs (Solid State Drives) still rock bigtime. <\/strong>Probably the only pure play on SSDs is OCZ.<\/p>\n
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