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June 2007 Score Card — Part II: Passive Incomes
In addition to price appreciation, the other investment objective we have is to generate passive incomes from our investments. To that end, I have been investing quite heavily in dividend generating stocks and funds. Last year, our investments brought us more than $9,000 in interests, dividends, and capital gains. For the first half of 2006, [...]
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June 2007 Highlights
Following are some highlights of June 2007 in case you missed them.
1. First Trading Experience with Zecco
It’s great that Zecco doesn’t charge commission for stock trading, but they still have a lot to do to make their system reliable and less confusing.
2. My Personal Saving and Investing System
Though a little bit complicated with so many [...]
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June 2007 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth
June turned out to be another solid month as our nest egg continued to grow in the past month, most of them coming from investments in our taxable accounts, despite a down month for the equity markets. For the month, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 219 points, or 1.6%, to close at 13,408 on [...]
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My First Day at New Job
was quite boring actually.
I showed up at 9:00 am this morning (that was quite early according to my standard) and spent the whole day doing nothing but sitting there and reading some document that doesn’t require much time to finish. No computer, no internet. It’s a big company and, as expected, everything is slow. I [...]
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New Week, New Job
Tomorrow, after two weeks of lay off, I will start a new job at a company that’s not really in my area.
The start up company that I worked for in the past two years last month decided to significantly reduce man power as the product we developed failed to win any customer (at least till [...]
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