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  1. Earnings Updates! April 25, 2008

    Dear Capital & Crisis Investor, Today, I have a long alert, as we have a number of earnings reports that rolled in this week. But I feel that it is important to keep you abreast of what’s happening with all our companies. So here goes… *** Nabors Industries Nabors (NBR:nyse) delivered a good earnings report. International business remains [...]

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  2. Sell Horizon Lines … and Other Updates April 18, 2008

    Dear Capital & Crisis Investor, I don’t care how much due diligence you do on a stock, nothing can tip you off to what happened to Horizon Lines (HRZ:nyse) yesterday. It is a stark example of the hazards of investing and why you never put all your money in one stock, no matter how confident in [...]

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  3. Greetings from St. Petersburg, FLA April 11, 2008

    Dear Capital & Crisis Investor, Tuesday, I was in Manhattan for Grant’s Spring Investment Conference. It was nice seeing several readers there who stopped by and said hello. At the conference, who sat next to me but Marty Cohen, CEO of Cohen & Steers (CNS:nyse). Of course, I tanned his hide and told him to get the [...]

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  4. Get Ready for Frontier Market Investing… April 4, 2008

    Dear Capital & Crisis Investor, A warm thought on a cold rainy day, at least here in Maryland… Mark Mobius, the famed globe-trotting investor, penned a column for the Financial Times recently in which he answered the question: When is the best time to invest in emerging markets? His answer: “The best time to invest in emerging [...]

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  5. Your April 2008 Issue April 1, 2008

    “It’s not as bad as you read in the papers,” CEO Patrick McHale told a roomful of skittish analysts and gloomy money managers. This was in early February, after the market stumbled out of the worst January it’s had in a long time. As a result, recession fears lingered in the minds of many, like [...]

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