Stocks and accountancy

I recently discovered that there’s a substantial tax break if you sell stocks after having held onto them for over a year, versus selling stocks you’ve had for under a year.
It’s the kind of thing I wish my accountant had told me when he saw all those stock sales and buy backs I did last […]

Sell BP

According to this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP,

BP was named one of the “ten worst corporations” in both 2001 and 2006 based on its environmental and human rights records.[8][9] In 1991 BP was cited as the most polluting company in the US based on EPA toxic release data. Greenpeace International named BP one of Scotland’s two largest […]

What I bought and why I bought it

Cross-posted to my livejournal
My stocks have been doing pretty well recently. Most of my buys have been in the technology sector, which is the sector I know the best as professional a Computer Programmer, a sector I follow anyway and understand. Here’s what I bought:
Apple - with the iPhone coming out, this is a no […]