Festival of Stocks - Many posts on individual stocks and the ongoing financial crisis

The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. is a leading information services organization serves worldwide markets in education, business, industry, other professions and government. Linked here is a detailed analysis and commentary.

Ever since the broad market indexes entered into bear market territory, I have been checking the dividend champions list for bargains. I came up with a list, using the follwoing screen criteria:

A roundup of last week's stock market related blog posts hosted at Fat Pitch Financials.

The Media sector contains a wide range of business models, some very attractive to the Magic Formula, and some very unattractive. In this article I examine each of the sub-sectors, separating the wheat from the chaff, and explain what to look for in a good MFI Media company.

In 1996, Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist, remarked on “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer” that there were two superpowers in the world — the United States and Moody’s bond-rating service — and it was sometimes unclear which was more powerful.

A review of the performance of the Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio for the first quarter of 2008.

The Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio held steady in February. I added a position in Premier Exhibitions (PRXI) and watched several positive developments in other positions. The portfolio continues to beat out the S&P 500.

I review my portoflio and briefly look over some new ideas

The twelve best large caps buys in the market right now.

"Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's, the arbiters of creditworthiness, are losing their credibility in the fastest growing part of the bond market."