Richard Stoyeck

Stock Investing – Chrysler up for sale – What is DaimlerChrysler thinking?

DaimlerChrysler has basically thrown in the towel by hiring J.P. Morgan Chase to find a way for the luxury German auto maker to divest itself of the Chrysler automobile company here in America. We went back and took a look at our stock research on the ori... Read >

Investing – Tax Shelters EQUALS big fine for KPMG

What happens when a world renowned accounting firm decides to market tax shelters to its elite clientele? The first thing that happens is that the client buys them because of the source. In this case the source is utterly reliable; KPMG is one of the olde... Read >

Stock Research – Hedge Fund fraud leads to $160 million Bear Stearns Settlement

It was announced recently that a Federal Bankruptcy court judge ordered Bear Stearns, one of America's top tier trading firms to pay $160 million to investors who lost money with a hedge fund that cleared through Bear Stearns. While doing stock research o... Read >

Stock Investing – Merck tries new tactic to sell Vaccination Drug – FORCE girls to take it

Giant Merck, a major growth stock for 50 years has seen that growth slowing down along with Pfizer and the rest of the major drug companies. Merck has latched onto a new strategy to build sales again, but it's not just Merck and Pfizer that are suffering.... Read >

Stock Research - Amaranth Hedge Fund Collapse – What Happens when your Friendly Banker becomes – PRE

You might be familiar with Amaranth LLC, the giant hedge fund that collapsed last fall, after blowing up $6 billion of investors? money. It now comes out that the circumstances under which they self-destructed are worth studying. But first ? A METAPHO... Read >

Stock Research – Wall Street makes FORTUNE sweeping YOUR CASH

Years ago, I was a limited partner at Bear Stearns and Company in New York City. Once a year, we would have a partner's meeting, and I would attend as a matter of course. Now keep in mind that we were a trading firm, also a brokerage firm. Back then we di... Read >

Stock Investing – The REAL DEAL on Options Back Dating and what it means for Stock Investing

Just when you thought it was safe to write a check for stock investing, the options backdating scandal hits. Our problem as money managers is that much of the information that has been disseminated about options back dating, and stock investing is just pu... Read >

Stock Research – Citigroup – Sandy Wyle’s decisions haunt current shareholders

Our stock research has come up with an interesting concept for you to focus on. Citigroup is in the press these days because its stock price has failed to keep up with that of its competitors including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and JP Morgan Chase. Th... Read >

Stock Research – NYSE’s Home Depot rocks investors with CEO resignation – Can Corporate culture surv

Our stock research has come up with an interesting play. As you know, Home Depot through its Board of Directors forced the resignation of General Electric trained CEO, Robert Nardelli, who had only been with Home Depot a couple of years. Somehow, Nardelli... Read >

Stock Research – Apple Computer rocks world with NEW PHONE

It is extremely rare in the business world to find a corporation that starts a revolution, and then the very same company leads another revolution. Steve Jobs who runs Apple Computer successfully stood the computer world on its high legs, and then shook i... Read >

Stock Research – Home Depot - Great Manager Blows HIMSELF UP

Stock Research and Home Depot are in the news again. This is a result of the firing of the CEO, Bob Nardelli, and what a story it is. You have to step back for a moment and think about any company's history that you are doing stock research on. You must ... Read >

Troop Surge in Iraq will deepen Quagmire

It looks like President Bush is going to announce a 'temporary increase' in the number of American troops serving in Iraq. The President is adding complexity to a series of wrong decisions he has made since the beginning of the invasion. It is difficult t... Read >

Six Years later – A Failed Presidency

President Bush came into office with great promise, and the reality has been one failure after another, and this is coming from a writer who was a conservative Republican before the President knew what the term meant. Let?s use former President Ronald Rea... Read >

Stock Research – Pfizer blows up its own Pipeline with Torcetrapib withdrawal

Stock research we call it. You want to talk about stock research. Let?s talk about how Pfizer the world renowned drug company blew itself up over the weekend. We all know that the classes of drugs, known as the STATINS have meant billions to the bottom li... Read >

Stock Research – Eastman Kodak and the Power of Disruptive Technologies

It?s simply amazing that ten years into the digital revolution, Eastman Kodak is trying to figure out what business they are in. For decades Kodak dominated the chemically based photographic process. You shoot a roll of film, and then you physically took ... Read >