Tips to Jump Start Your Investments this Week

 

 

Tips to Jump Start Your Investments this Week go here Having trouble viewing this email? Click here to view it in your browser. To ensure delivery, please add mail@thestreetsubs.com to your email address book. Dear Friend, When big financial events happen, where do you go first for insights and commentary? Financial news sites, churning out article after article by 20-something writers with little financial experience or expertise, being paid by the word? Free websites more intent on entertaining than enlightening and giving you the Perez Hilton treatment of a deadly serious topic? Dubious "expert traders" touting their "amazing" track records who are likely talking up their own book? Allow me to suggest an alternative. I'd like to invite you to make Real Money your starting point for understanding not just the big events, but the seemingly small developments that can affect your entire investment portfolio and strategy. 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Weeks before the IPO, Real Money warned about hype overtaking fundamentals: Real Money expert Doug Kass outlined 5 major concerns he had with the company's public offering 2 days before the IPO, before reaching his conclusion: Maybe Facebook will be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I'll be content to I'll let the market determine its value and watch from the sidelines until I get a feel for the way it trades. Jim Cramer injected a dose of reality on May 17: We know that this deal is going to be fraught with everything that is wrong with the IPO process: Difficult allocations given to the biggest clients, while the biggest users of the product believe they should get stock and angry retail investors can't believe they aren't going to be able to. Valuations that go from reasonable on the out years to just crazy on them. Insider sellers getting out at big gains, while those who buy in the aftermarket will be mostly saddled with losses if history plays any role. Cramer again on May 17, with a smart prediction: The deal is way too hot. But it is indisputable that the company is a fast-growing well run enterprise that is worth a great deal, just not as much as people might pay with a market order to buy stock at the opening tomorrow or any other point during that day.   The Ugly Truth: Investors Got Screwed   And in the aftermath, Real Money called out culprits, named names and helped investors make sense of their disappointment. For those who didn't listen to the warnings, it was the kind of straight talk they just weren't hearing elsewhere: On May 22nd, Jim Cramer nailed why this IPO was such a disaster for all investors—it caused investors to lose the little bit of trust they had that Wall Street would play fair. More importantly, something that was meant to be seminal, that was meant to be a welcome-back sign for retail investors turns out to be a DANGER, MINEFIELD ahead with a fitting collection of skulls and crossbones representing the remains of all who ventured into the Facebook minefield.   Here is an email our Ed Ponsi received on 5/21: "Hello Ed, Just wanted to say thanks! You helped to keep me from doing something really stupid last week. At 9:30 Thursday evening, I canceled my request for the Facebook IPO. Whew!" On 5/24, Jim Cramer detailed the real and disturbing issues behind the "Facebook Fakeout"—the fact that Morgan Stanley was hiding material info and sticking unknowing investors with a company facing serious issues: Now we know all of this was wrong. Now we know that Morgan Stanley was selectively telling accounts that the company would earn 83 cents a share, not 88 cents, in 2013 and 48 cents, not 51, cents in 2012...[as a result]...the high demand could only be from hapless people out of the loop of the number cuts...as long as the public only knew the greatness of the 900 million strong users, and this number cut did not get widely distributed, everything was hunkey dorey. And everyone involved -- Facebook execs, Morgan Stanley execs, Nasdaq execs -- will not only keep their jobs but, they will get raises next year. Now we here at Real Money don't have a perfect batting average. No one does. But today, Facebook is still sitting below its opening day price. The Choice is Yours. When you want the true scoop on the big financial stories that can make you money or lose you a bundle, Real Money is the clear choice. 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