134th Edition of Festival of Stocks

About Individual Stocks

D4L presents Genuine Parts Co. (GPC) Stock Analysis posted at Dividends Value.

Zachary Scheidt presents Syniverse (SVR) - Recovering, Beating Expectations posted at ZachStocks, saying "Syniverse has solutions to support wireless providers. The company is adding new customers and although they experienced an important lost contract last year, the stock has recovered and the company is in growth mode."

About Overall Stock Market

Silicon Valley Blogger presents 1929 Stock Market Cycle: Are Technical Indicators, Stock Trends Repeating History? posted at The Digerati Life.

Dan presents If You Thought Americans Suffered This Year... posted at Everyday Finance, saying "This article highlights how much worse this financial crisis could have been if the nefarious plans that Wall Street had in mind actually came to be".

Michael Haltman presents Pop The Economic Pimple While The Cancer Runs Wild posted at The Political and Financial Markets Commentator, saying " I find the bonuses paid to the AIG executives and financial "geniuses" that created and sold the products that has helped to bring the economy of the United States and the world to its knees to be abhorrent and bordering on the immoral. If there is a way to abrogate them within the boundaries of contract law, then it must be done! But that is not the point of this post. That said, let's move on."

Ian Welsh presents How to Understand the March 23 Market Rally posted at Ian Welsh, saying "On March 23, the Dow went up almost 500 points in response to news that Treasure Secretary Geithner was promising private investors almost $1 trillion to gamble with. But instead of signaling economic recovery, the Dow rally points to the Japanification of the US economy, and that's very bad news."

About Stock Investing Methodologies

George presents Consistent Cash Creators with High Normalized Earnings Yield posted at Fat Pitch Financials, saying "These are the results of a stock screen that looks for companies that produce consistent free cash flows over the past seven years and are trading at low prices relative to their normalized earnings".

Pinyo presents Should You Own Individual Stocks? posted at Moolanomy.

Manshu presents Greater Fool Theory and Keynes Beauty Contest | OneMint posted at OneMint.

Fine-Tuned Finances presents Why Young People Will Benefit Greatly from the Recession | Fine-Tuned Finances posted at Fine-Tuned Finances.

Steve Alexander presents Are Greenblatt's Published Gains Achievable? posted at MagicDiligence - The Best Magic Formula Stocks, saying "In Joel Greenblatt's The Little Book that Beats the Market, the Magic Formula strategy returned over 30% a year. Is this result obtainable going forward or did the study's time period skew results unrealistically?"

Disciplined Investing presents Is Benjamin Graham Still Relevant? posted at Disciplined Approach to Investing, saying "A few years ago, Jason Zweig worked with the publisher of The Intelligent Investor in order to update the classic investment book. Zweig outlines some of the thoughts that went into the 2003 update of the Intelligent Investor in a paper titled, Equity Analysis Issues, Lessons, and Techniques."

The Financial Blogger presents What Does The Broker Do? (Besides taking your money away with fees!) posted at The Financial Blogger.

Ramis presents Asset Allocation-What it is and Why it’s Important posted at Financial Highway.

The Investor presents How stop loss investing can save you money posted at Monevator.

ChristianPF presents How to plan for your financial future posted at Christian Personal Finance Blog.

Investing School presents Realized and Unrealized Gains and Losses posted at Investing School.

Other

The Dividend Guy presents Do Precious Metals Belong in My Portfolio | The Dividend Guy Blog posted at The Dividend Guy Blog, saying "Asset Allocation is the most important aspect of portfolio planning. This post asks the question, "Do Precious Metals Belong in My Portfolio?) "