The Sun’s Financial Diary

And the suspension is indeed related to the acquisition of 20% stake of Guangdong Development Bank. According to announcement, China Life will pay about $730 million in cash for the acquisition. Trading of LFC will resume tomorrow at 9:30 am in NYSE.
The announcement can be found here. 

Citigroup announced today that it won a $3.1 billion bid to take control of Guangdong Development Bank, a regional bank with more than 500 branches in south and east China. A consortium led by Citigroup, also including IBM, China Life Insurance, China's State Grid Corp, CITIC Trust, and PuHua Investment, will take 85.6% percent of [...]

In my previous post, I summarized the reasons I invested in ETFs (I currently have six PowerShares ETFs: PEY, PFM, PGJ, PHO, and PID), including

ETFs are priced as stocks;
Many ETFs are designed to track some popular indices;
The fees for sector ETFs are usually lower than their mutual fund counterparts;
ETFs can be purchased at any discount [...]

I became a big fan of ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) in December 2004 when I sold my Matthews China Fund (MCHFX) holdings at Scottrade after it started to charge fees for no-load mutual funds and switched to PowerShares' Golden Dragon Halter USX China (PGJ), 10 days after its inception.
Now I own seven PowerShares ETFs, [...]

Every day? Every week? or Every month?
When I first started investing in 2001, I was so eager to see how my investments (mutual funds) were doing, I just couldn't wait till 6 o'clock in the eventing to get the closing prices. So I entered the top 10 or 15 holdings of each mutual funds I [...]

Due to the apparent delay of our Roth IRA transfer process at Vanguard, I decided to mail the checks ($1000 each) to Scottrade for our forth quarter Roth IRA contributions. When I started the transfer process at the end of last month, I thought it could be done before the next quarterly automatic investment date [...]

Don't know if I missed it last time (I did search "dividend" at several locations, including FAQ, on their website the other day), or they just added, but today I found this from Zecco's FAQ section:
Does Zecco Trading allow account holders to automatically reinvest dividends for equities and exchange traded funds?Yes, dividend reinvestment is a [...]

This is the last item on the September 2006 score card: asset allocations of the taxable accounts.
In addition to investing regularly in our retirement accounts (401(k)s, Roth IRAs), I also have some stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds in taxable accounts. Right now, these accounts serve as supplements to our retirement investments. When it comes [...]

Not sure if there's anybody celebrating, but we have a new record for the Dow at the close, 11,727.34. The old record was 11722.98, set on January 14, 2000 at the peak of the Internet bubble.

New Oriental Education (EDU) will be the latest Chinese stock to be listed on the big board. According to IPOHome.com, EDU will offer 7.5 million American Depositary Shares (ADS) at a range of $11-$13 and the stock will start to trade on Wednesday, September 6.
EDU’s main business is test preparation. As tens of thousands [...]