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The Stingy News Weekly (09/05/2010)


"The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes."
- Warren Buffett


Stingy News Flash

I recently had the pleasure of dining with PrefBlog's James Hymas (a fixed income specialist) and discovered that he offers investment advice on a fee-for-service basis. That is, based on a hourly or flat-fee rate. To my knowledge, he is the only investment advisor in Canada that offers such a service. (I'm not counting financial planning services, which are often provided on a fee-for-service basis but do not provide advice on the buying or selling of securities.) But I might be missing a few other advisors. If you know an investment advisor that charges by the hour, or via a flat rate, for investment advice (as opposed to a percentage of assets or commissions) then please let me know!


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Do financial statements tell the truth?
"Financial statements are like fictional works 'based on a true story'. They bear some relationship to actual events, but they are interpretations with their own biases and agendas."


The apathy trade
"Week before last, the poll of American Association of Individual Investors members showed the lowest percentage of bullish respondents since March 5, 2009, essentially at the moment of the 2009 low. The bullish percentage rebounded a bit this past week, but still lagged behind the number of bears. Ned Davis Research's "crowd sentiment poll" showed a parallel degree of pessimism, as did the Rydex/SGI Advisor Confidence Index, a measure of investment-advisor psychology that hit a 16-month low in August. Meantime, corporate insiders have all but quit selling shares of their employers."


Epidemic models of bubbles
"Contagion or epidemic models of financial markets are proposed in which interest in or attention to individual stocks is spread by word of mouth. The models give alternative interpretations of the random walk character of stock prices."


Thinking outside the stocks
"There is always a bull market somewhere. With the stock market continuing to whipsaw and bonds getting ever-pricier, investors are looking further afield for decent returns - and some are finding them. Self-storage buildings, anyone? How about abandoned railroad beds, cellular towers, student apartments or parking facilities? Such unglamorous niches, once shunned by the investing elite, are performing well in 2010, even as the Dow industrials limp along."


Bond bubble
"It is possible to build a speculative case for bond investment (i.e. riding the deflationary news flow down), however, as ever this leaves participants with the conundrum of Cinderella's ball as described by Warren Buffett 'The giddy participants all plan to leave just seconds before midnight. There is a problem though: They are dancing in a room in which the clocks have no hands!' Personally I prefer to stick to investment rather than speculation."


Do countries graduate from crises?
"Are declarations of victory against the global crisis premature? This column argues that 'graduation' - the emergence from recurrent crisis bouts - is a long and painful process which neither developed nor developing countries look close to completing. Two centuries of evidence suggests that most countries need 50 years before the chances of further crises subside."


Graham PE and CPI
"Saturna Capital has an interesting take on the calculation of the Graham / Shiller PE10, otherwise known as the Cyclically Adjusted Price Earnings ratio (CAPE). Saturna argues that The Market May Be Cheaper Than It Looks because the Consumer Price Index (CPI) provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) understates the true rate of inflation, a key input to the CAPE calculation"


The elements of investing
"The Elements of Investing.written by former Vanguard board members Charles Ellis and Burton G. Malkiel.distills investing into five fundamental principles: save, index, diversify, avoid blunders, and keep it simple. Simply visit the publisher's website and download your copy today."


Lies, damned lies and economists
"It's established by now that economics didn't help stop some of the more spectacular misadventures of the financial community but it's a bit less obvious that it was directly responsible for many of the mishaps. It's all tied up with the dirty fact that economists are basically a bunch of untrustworthy, deceitful bums who shouldn't be left alone with your child's piggybank, let alone the world's economy. The trouble is that economists have a world-view that sees us all as self-interested moneygrubbers without an ethical thought in our heads. Perhaps that's because that's a pretty good description of economists themselves: they act like their models are true, the dirty rotten scoundrels."



DOW 30 Value Screens

High Dividend Yield StocksP/EP/BP/SP/DYield
Verizon (VZ)13555
AT&T (T)34355
Pfizer (PFE)25255
Merck (MRK)54155
EI DuPont (DD)32355
Kraft (KFT)54444
Chevron (CVX)54444
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)32144
Intel (INTC)53244
Procter & Gamble (PG)33244
Notes | More Info...


Value Ratio StocksP/EP/BP/SP/DVR
AT&T (T)34352.10
Merck (MRK)54152.11
Chevron (CVX)54442.51
Travelers (TRV)55432.74
Kraft (KFT)54442.93
EI DuPont (DD)32353.18
Intel (INTC)53243.24
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)32143.29
Pfizer (PFE)25253.54
Exxon Mobil (XOM)43434.08
Notes | More Info...


Graham-Lite StocksP/EP/BP/DG$dG$(%)
Travelers (TRV)55392.1980.66
JP Morgan Chase (JPM)45156.7144.79
Chevron (CVX)54497.2924.74
Kraft (KFT)54434.4712.71
Merck (MRK)54539.9412.22
AT&T (T)34529.045.84
Notes | More Info...


Top US StocksYieldV.R.Graham
AT&T (T)YYY
Chevron (CVX)YYY
Kraft (KFT)YYY
Merck (MRK)YYY
EI DuPont (DD)YY
Intel (INTC)YY
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)YY
Pfizer (PFE)YY
Travelers (TRV)YY
Exxon Mobil (XOM)Y
JP Morgan Chase (JPM)Y
Procter & Gamble (PG)Y
Verizon (VZ)Y
Notes...



S&P/TSX60 Value Screens

High Dividend Yield StocksP/EP/BP/SP/DYield
BCE (BCE)54455
Transalta (TA)24355
Sun Life (SLF)25555
Husky Energy (HSE)34455
CIBC (CM)52355
Bank of Montreal (BMO)43355
Telus (T)44455
Power Corp (POW)35555
TransCanada (TRP)24255
National Bank (NA)53355
Notes | More Info...


Value Ratio StocksP/EP/BP/SP/DVR
BCE (BCE)54452.17
CIBC (CM)52352.54
National Bank (NA)53352.80
Bank of Montreal (BMO)43352.99
Telus (T)44453.23
Royal Bank (RY)42243.62
Husky Energy (HSE)34453.65
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS)42343.82
Transalta (TA)24353.90
Sun Life (SLF)25553.98
Notes | More Info...


Graham-Lite StocksP/EP/BP/DG$dG$(%)
Inmet Mining (IMN)55167.1923.54
Canadian Tire (CTC.A)45267.6819.09
Teck Cominco (TCK.B)54147.0518.51
Brookfield A.M. (BAM.A)55333.3217.28
Encana (ECA)45433.9213.94
Nexen (NXY)45122.9111.28
Sun Life (SLF)25529.445.78
National Bank (NA)53566.435.73
BCE (BCE)54534.384.20
Notes | More Info...


Top Canadian StocksYieldV.R.Graham
BCE (BCE)YYY
National Bank (NA)YYY
Sun Life (SLF)YYY
Bank of Montreal (BMO)YY
CIBC (CM)YY
Husky Energy (HSE)YY
Telus (T)YY
Transalta (TA)YY
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS)Y
Brookfield A.M. (BAM.A)Y
Canadian Tire (CTC.A)Y
Encana (ECA)Y
Inmet Mining (IMN)Y
Nexen (NXY)Y
Power Corp (POW)Y
Royal Bank (RY)Y
Teck Cominco (TCK.B)Y
TransCanada (TRP)Y
Notes...



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