Stock Buyback Programs With the recent downturn of the local stock markets, we have seen many companies come out with disclosures regarding the approval of a stock buyback program by their respective board of directors. Many firms disclosed their stock buyback programs months ago and we have seen some... (more...)

Fortunes come and Fortunes go as the saying goes. With the recent volatility in the stock markets we have seen many fortunes which were made last year vanish faster than we could have imagined. When hard times fall onto investors, many wish for the good times when the markets seemed like a never... (more...)

The title probable sums up the state of the local and US markets the last couple of months. Most of the people i've talked to just don't know what this market is going to do in the short term and therefore makes it very difficult for traders to make any money. For the short term traders,... (more...)

Here is a little background info from the PSE Website: Roxas Holdings, Inc. (ROX), formerly Central Azucarera Don Pedro, was founded in 1927 and was one of the first sugar mills established in the Philippines. On December 11, 2001, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved the change in the company's... (more...)

Aboitiz Equity Ventures is the listed holding company of the Aboitiz family. Their interests include food manufacturing, power and electricity production, transport systems as well as banking. The Aboitiz family now has 3 listed companies in the exchange (4 including AEV) wherein AEV has an interest... (more...)

We’ve all heard the many debates about long term vs short term, TA vs FA, speculative vs value, etc. I won’t repeat that here because we’ve all heard or read the many articles about this. I however would like to write something about investing basics here due to a message i received... (more...)

Back in August 15, Dragon wrote in his DMN the following: “After all this rain of blood is over, there will be a revaluation and repricing, and nerds will come out with numbers on how the selling has been overdone.” This was a very funny but true comment and i have that funny feeling that... (more...)