Friday, January 01, 2010

Happy New Year !!!

Wishing all my readers a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year !

Fred Fuld at Stockerblog.com

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Performance of Stock Markets Around the World for 2009


Can you guess which stock market had the best performance around the world? Here is a selection of the 15 different stock markets of various countries, showing the return for the year 2009. The results may surprise you.

Sri Lanka stock exchange CSE 128%
Russia RTS 126%
Brazil’s Bovespa 83%
Bombay Stock Exchange BSE 81%
Shanghai Composite Index in China 80%
Philippine Stock Exchange Index 63%
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index 52%
Nasdaq composite index 44%
Toronto stock market TSX 30%
Standard & Poor's 500 Index 24%
Germany's Dax 23%
London's FTSE 100 index 22%
France's Cac 22%
Japan's Nikkei 19%
Dow Jones Industrial Average 19%

By Stockerblog.com

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Touch Screen Apple Computer Rumor

There is a rumor going around Silicon Valley and the rest of the world, that Apple (AAPL) is coming out with a touch screen computer. The "major product announcement" will be made in San Francisco on January 26, 2010. The stock was up over one percent today.

Groovle Wins Lawsuit Filed Against It by Google

Google (GOOG) filed a lawsuit against Groovle.com, a Canadian search engine company, claiming that the domain name Groovle is too close to Google. However, Groovle was victorious, willing the lawsuit. This is only the second of dozens of domain related lawsuits that Google has lost.