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Taking Charge has the latest edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance today. Inspired by the Carnival’s edition number (162), Emily focused on baseball for this week’s theme.
Here are the editor’s picks:
Rationing Cards – A Pictorial Journey Down Nostalgia Lane
My “Secret” to Feeling like a Million Bucks
Money Lessons Learned From Famous Movies
12 Tips to Prepare Your Finances for Vacation
Why I Bought $199 in Apple Stock Instead of a New Apple 3G iPhone
Dumb Money: Smoking
Renewal is the theme for this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted by The Budgeting Babe. The Budgeting Babe has been writing about personal finance online since 2004 and if you like reading within this niche, you must include this blog.
Here are her selections for “editor’s choice” in edition #161, focusing on renewal.
It’s Official – We’re Debt Free!
Starting Over, Financially
When Career Plans Change
Determining What You Can Sell
Why Are You Waiting So Long to Get Married?
7 Financial Steps to Take When You Have a Baby on the Way
I was sent a very interesting article today regarding some of the world’s wealthiest people that are not commonly or even heard of. We are used to seeing famous people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet on the top list, but there are many wealthy people that are not publicly published. In fact, someone once told me that the wealthiest person in the world is not listed in the Top 100 Richest List. I guess not every wealthy person wants to be seen in the spotlight. And I can understand that.
For example, if I win the grand prize in the lottery, I would not want to be shown on TV. But the million dollar question is, Would I blog about it? Hmm…
Well, here’s the link to the article.
The World’s Most Secretive Billionaires
http://digg.com/business_finance/The_World_s_Most_Secretive_Billionaires
Due to the positive responses from the June 2008 Stocks Challenge, I will continue the Stocks Challenge. Unfortunately, the first week of July has already past, so I will extend the deadline until July 15 for the contest entries.
The Challenge
Pick a stock that you think will have the most percentage gains from the open price of the first trading day of the month to the close price of the last trading day of the month. In case of duplicates, the contestant with the earlier post counts, so enter early.
Requirements
Pick a stock and reply to the comments of this post for the record with a link to your blog.
The company stock must have a minimum market cap of $50MM at the start of the first trading day of the month.
The company stock must have a minimum stock price of $5.00 at the start of the first trading day of the month.
The contestant can only pick one stock.
The contestant must have a blog and post the pick on his/her blog and link back to this post.
Rules
Entries must be submitted by the end of Tuesday July 15th, 2008. The winners will be announced here on Growing Money after the end of the month.
Prizes
1st Prize – Choice of book from my collection
2nd Prize – Choice of book from my collection
*Prizes will be shipped to the winners free of charged. If you are the declared winner, please provide your address to me
via email (growingmoney (at) gmail.com).
My pick for this contest
My stock pick is PFE.
The latest edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance has been published at Mighty Bargain Hunter with a history of the flag of the United States. It’s a timely and interesting theme, plus the Carnival includes many great articles from around the web, so take a look.
My article, Stock Challenge Results June 2008 is included there.
June was a tough month for trading in the stock market. For the month of June, the Dow Jones was down 10%, the Nasdaq was down 9% and the S&P 500 was down 9% as well.
Six people participated in the Stocks Challenge for June, and all but one was in the negative zone after the last close day of June. Tap Water was the only person with a pick that came out positive. His pick was APWR and it netted a whopping 14% at the end of June, making him the winner of the June 2008 Stock Challenge. He will receive the first prize.
June 2008 Stock Challenge Results
Tap Water wins the first prize, a $25 VISA Gift Card
pfstock wins the 2nd prize, a book from my collection.
Dreamybee wins the 3rd prize, a book from my collection.
Dreamybee chose the book, “An Instance of the Fingerpost” (ISBN 1-57322-082-5).
This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is hosted by Greener Pastures: Personal Finance and takes us outside of Abu Dhabi for the first planned zero-emissions city, being built from scratch.
Here are the host’s picks for best articles:
Congressional testimony: Student credit card issuers under investigation
Four Specific Paths To Automatic Saving and Investing
Retirement Savings 101: All about retirement accounts (and why to start saving now!)
George Carlin Tribute – Finance Jokes
4 Phases of Money Merging
Big Toys For Top Dollar: 5 Reasons People Spoil Their Kids
The Surprising Costs of DIY
Creating My List Of Financial Priorities
TradeKing Review: A Discount Broker with Loads of Features
The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Money Making WordPress Blog
Six Overlooked Reasons why you are struggling with your finances: Reason #6 – System Failure
My article, Huge Electric Bill was featured on Carnival of Personal Finance #159.
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