Contrarian Christmas List
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A Fool peers in through Wall Street's out door.
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The Dow Jones Industrialsâ¦the NASDAQ Compositeâ¦the S &amp; P 500â¦The Russell 2000â¦ The list of stock market indexes goes on and on.
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What other stocks did this savvy Fool recommend?
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Bad economic data? Rising oil prices? Mediocre earnings? It&#39;s the holiday season _ all is forgiven. Wall Street is going into the last week of 2004 with all three major indexes above or at their multiyear highs.
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Again this year, we offer the video-game shopper a cheat sheet identifying some of the top titles of the holiday season. Keep in mind that weird tastes abound and some are reflected on this list, which is culled from hundreds of games released in time for the holidays.
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Christmas is a time of fantasy. Throughout the land, merchants fantasize about hitting their fourth-quarter numbers, with the aid of gift-givers with starry eyes and platinum credit cards.
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Looking at the steam coming off the mail in my inbox this week, I definitely need a place to lay low for a while. One reader kindly recommended Geek Cruises, where I could work on my tan and my Perl programming skills at the same time. He also thought it would help my love life but I'm not so sure. The brochures are full of guys with goatees and laptops -- not exactly my idea of The Love Boat.
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As the holiday season approaches, book lists fill the entertainment sections of newspapers: fiction and non-fiction, prize winners of all sorts, the ubiquitous coffee-table large-format illustrated tomes, and children's literature. For me, it's always a tempting feast. It's an opportunity to expand my personal library or find a gift for someone special.
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Another round of cheap stocks for the value investor's soul.
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By Chris Tomlinson  You may have noticed that the web is obsessed with lists. This is either something to do with ordering content logically or the autistic genius of its early creators.
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Motley Fool writers offer up stock ideas and more this Halloween.
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Let someone else supply the savings bonds and sweaters this holiday season. You&#146;ll be the hero with your gifts of new robots, arfid blockers, video games, and other tech nonessentials. Here&#146;s Globe Personal Tech columnist Mark Baard&#146;s personal wish list.
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Carol services banned, religious references carefully excised from cards: to read the press this year, you could be forgiven for thinking the politically correct brigade are set on taking the Christian out of Christmas.
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When it comes to money, we all make mistakes -- sticking with a dog-of-a-stock too long, taking too little risk (or too much), buying a house that's too expensive, drinking overpriced designer coffee. The list goes on.
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Go ahead and be contrarian. Just make sure you're right.
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Okay, so what if Santa's a fat slob? Just because he has earned the right doesn't mean we have. As you work through your shopping list, here are a few ideas to keep friends and loved ones off the couch as we head into the new year, whether they are techno-geeks or old school. Enjoy the season, go...
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A look at our picks as the season winds down.