Very good strength from that infrastructure name today, so I am going to take a bit off the top - not much considering the chart is shaping up so well, but with Jacobs Engineering (JEC) reporting ahead of the bell tomorrow and a quite large stake I am going to reduce some risk with a share sell here… Spending Habits - Are Yours Out of Control in Your Business or Personal Life? April 21st, 2008 | Category: Finance News We all know, most citizens just don’t fall into a pile of debt overnight. It does take day to run up the credit card bills, possibly get behind in house payments, late with the utility bills, and buy things un-needed. The key is to learn to manage your spending habits before things get out of … Manpower (MAN) as a Weak Dollar Play? Who Knew. April 21st, 2008 | Category: Finance News There is only so much day in the day and only so many companies/sectors one can keep track of. My team of 10 analysts (read: 10 hamsters) did not realize that Manpower (MAN) was in fact an overseas, weak dollar play. As portfolio manager I made them run the wheel additional hard that weekend for n… Bookkeeping: Powershares DB Agriculture Fund (DBA) Starting to Look Toppy - Cutting Back April 21st, 2008 | Category: Finance News The Powershares DB Agriculture Fund (DBA) is quite the imperfect instrument; it holds sugar, corn, wheat, soybeans. The problem is when some things go up, others go down… and that is one of those times. While corn is going up [Apr 3: Corn Jumps to $6 - Start Stocking up on Soda Pop], wheat and t… 92 Stocks Returning 11%+ Last Week April 21st, 2008 | Category: Finance News So many good returns that past week that I had to put my cutoff up to 11% and still got 92 names. What caught my eye that week were the meat producers, Smithfield Foods (SFD) and Tyson Foods (TSN) coming out of nowhere to manufacture huge surges that past week. I highlighted that group last fall, … Bookkeeping: Starting Stake in Yingli Green Energy (YGE) April 21st, 2008 | Category: Finance News I am reintroducting Yingli Green Energy (YGE) to the fund; a name I held last fall. that is yet another Chinese solar stock, and my basis for purchase is a chart that looks in the early stage of a breakout - a nice 2 week base, from which new highs are being made … plus the stock just cleared its…